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Volume 17 Issue 2 ISSN 1833-8402 Circulation 850 August 2011 $2-50 Please do not allow this to happen here. Coal seam gas plans could threaten Australia’s most beautiful valley. An exploration licence has already been awarded covering a huge area of NSW, and one licence prominently features Kangaroo

Valley. Property owners are able to protect us all.

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Published by K angaroo Kangaroo Valley Voice Incorporated. Editorial alley V Registration # Y2627221 V oice It is OK to say no to gas extraction propositions The monthly community newspaper of Kangaroo Valley Could the prospect of rampant destruction of clearing and degradation if it is not engineered Office Bearers this beautiful valley be one of the most serious and managed professionallly. threats that Kangaroo Valley has encountered Coal seam gas is often referred to as President Carl Leddy Treasurer Ken Crocker or may ever face? Unconventional gas, CSM (Coal Seam Secretary Larraine Hahlos The picture on our front page of the gasfields Methane) or CBM (Coal Bed Methane) and not Committee Sheila Young around the famous US Colorado River clearly to be confused with Natural Gas, it is methane Joan Bray illustrates the problem. gas found in coal seams.

Editor Carl Leddy Each gas well pad, which could be the size of a The coal seam normally acts as a water aquifer. Advertising Manager Position available football field, must have a connecting pipe line The methane gas is trapped in the coal by the Journalists Joan Bray and a dirt track access road. water. Methane gas has no smell, it will Lee Sharam Jenelle Brangwin There are also holding ponds for toxic waste asphyxiate and is highly explosive, which is Columnists Rosemary Stanton water, gas processing plans and compressor why coal miners are fearful of it. Kiri Broad stations. That does not allow much space for Methane gas is a greenhouse gas more than 20 Sean Kramer proper farming. times worse than C02. Ron Bower Sean Scarisbrick Many valley residents attended the screening of When burnt, methane produces 40% less Gerard Keyser the documentary Gasland in the hall last month greenhouse gas than coal however the process Tony Barnett and most were alarmed at the implications of removing it from the coal seam sees a large Distribution Angus Kennedy Hope Kennedy suggested as a flow on from this form of intense amount of fugitive methane escaping into the Sports Report Position available industrial activity. atmosphere, so any perceived benefit is Legal Advisers A P Sparke & Broad An action group has been formed in the Valley nullified.CSM mining could pose a serious risk Editorial and advertising office. following the establishment of similar groups in to fresh water aquifers if it is not engineered telephone 0459 028 606 the Southern Highlands and the Illawarra. and managed professionallly. or (02)- 4465 1621 It is believed that some land owners there have The huge volumes extracted from the coal already been approached to allow access to their seam can then lead to a major depletion of properties for the purpose of establishing sites connected aquifers which would be used for Kangaroo Valley Voice was originally established under the Small Towns Program (an initiative of the for exploration drills and as Kangaroo Valley drinking water, agriculture and fire fighting. Department of Business & Regional Development). falls smack bang in the Petroleum Exploratio The large assortment of chemicals used for K.V. Voice Inc. aims to support & develop the Valley’s Licence No 469 it is right that the community drilling and fraccing can cause serious economic, social & communication infrastructure. The should be concerned about any possibility of contamination to fresh water aquifers and Committee & Assistants are all volunteers, who donate their time and expertise for the benefit of our readers. defilement of this land. running groundwater streams and rivers. All Valley residents, clubs & organisations are invited to The licence area of the project covers 3,173 The pollution of water tables and rivers leads forward editorial submissions. square kilometres of the Southern Coalfield of to the mass death of all types of living The K.V. Voice is financially self sufficient due to the Sydney Basin and the focus appears to be creatures and plants. income received from local businesses and advertising. Illawarra to the north (the Permian Illawarra As the valley has a minimum height above sea Coal Measures) and an area near Jervis Bay in level of 75 metres, one expert opinion is that DISCLAIMER the south (Early Permian Clyde Coal Measures). there are no coal deposits in the valley floor, The statements and opinions expressed in this publication are made in good faith by Kangaroo Valley community members. Drilling techniques now have developed to the that are significant targets. K.V. Voice Inc., Committee, volunteers and contributors do not point that horizontal drilling can take place way So it may be that we are all alarmed take responsibility for any statements advertisement, notice, underground as off shoots from the original uneccesarily about the Valley, but it is clear letter or opinions published. Such are published at the risk of the contributor, who accepts liability for any intended publication. All vertical bore, so that any land owner who gives that the other targeted areas would suffer contributors agree to indemnify the publisher and warrant that permission could also be inadvertently be degradation of unacceptable consequences and the material is accurate and is neither deceptive or misleading, in breach of copyright, defamatory or in breach of any laws. dragging their neighbours into the process. we should still be concerned about the impact PRINTED BY: Red Barron Printing, Bomaderry. NSW But it is not compulsory to give permission. on the beauty and productivity which is so DISTRIBUTED BY: Australia Post. You can say no! representative of the South Coast and Graphics used in advertising courtesy of ClickArt Even the exploratory process would involve particlularly the pristine waters of Jervis Bay. Incredible 65,000 Image Pak © 1996, T/Maker Co. dangerous chemicals, water pollution, land Carl Leddy

DEADLINES The Editor for the September 2011 issue of the Letters to the Editor ‘VOICE’ Remembering the “good old days”. Advertising,

Wot’s On , Calender All letters must be signed Your editorial in last month's edition takes me & Sports Report by the writer and give both back to the early days of mid 1995 when the business and home phone Butterworth tribe arrived at the time of the August 22, 2011 numbers so letters can be second edition of Voice. Editorial Submissions verified if necessary. Paul Marcus had already started the August 24, 2011 The writer’s name will be publication. Paul was the founding father! published with the letter. I recall his efforts of typing and transcribing Please do not leave your and assembling with an early days computer submission until the last day; Mail to : helped by Paul's wife Jenni, the children and a being early is a great help to us. The Editor c/o Post Office group of volunteers from the Lifestyle Group. e-mail Kangaroo Valley. 2577 The sorting and addressing was done on the [email protected] Or dining table. [email protected] 44 651 621 (Continued on page 4) August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 3 Former resident Eileen Hughes passes away Eileen was a bright happy person who kept their caravan for weekend getaways, until loved her family very much. Len retired in 1992. They were very important to her and she It was then they made Glenmack Park their was so proud of them all. home for the next 16 years together. Eileen was pleased to show any newcomers Eileen loved the Valley and especially loved to the Valley the "ropes" and encourage her garden. them to become involved in the community. Visitors would even come and take photos and Her courage during her life time of health admire Eileen and Len's roses. problems was encouraging to all. Eileen was also proud of her efforts in the Eileen Patricia Hughes nee Martin, born Kangaroo Valley Show and won prizes for her 24th August 1930, at Newtown. fruit cake, roses and potted plants. Eileen married Lenald, (Lenny) Reginald Eileen also found a wonderful community of Hughes on the 16th February 1952 and they friends in the St Josephs Church. settled into life in their Condell Park home. St Joseph's friends were blessed to have a Eileen had battled illness throughout her happy outgoing couple. life. Her heart condition mean't she was not They readily gave of their time with cleaning, to have children, but Eileen was always the flowers and being wonderful parishioners. stubborn one and was blessed with four She was fully involved in the Senior Citizens. children. Her illness didn't stop her from being When Len passed away in 2008, Eileen involved in the community from canteen stubbornly stayed in her little house not duty, to St Vincent de Paul volunteer and wanting to leave Len, nor her little garden. President/Secretary of the Bankstown Due to her failing health, Eileen moved into Kindergarten Netball Association. Harbison Care, Moss Vale in August 2009. Eileen passed away peacefully on July 5, Eileen and Len loved to holiday with their She settled in well with a few of Len's roses to 2011 and is now in the arms of God and her family and travel with their caravan. care for and offered her friendship to the beloved Len. This brought them to the Valley, where they residents. Fay Nelson Vale Lorna Smart 1936—2011

They then moved to Jaspers Brush where they Lorna also loved cooking and catering at leased a farm. various functions. In 1960 they purchased a farm at Bendeela She was made a Life Member of the Kangaroo where they farmed until the Sydney Water Valley A & H Association after catering for Board forced them out, moving to Barrengarry the Annual Show for many years. in 1970. She also loved her flower garden which was in Lorna and Brian had three children, Gregory great demand every flower show, for (born 1956), John (1959) and Wendy (1962). weddings and for decorating her church.

Their family has now grown to 10 Lorna loved people, spending much time grandchildren, Dennis, Laura, Jack, Angela, visiting or talking on the telephone to all her Heidi, Ben, Abby, Christopher, Matthew and friends. Jason and three great grandchildren, Lacie, She was also an avid fisherwoman, both for Henry and Evie. Bass in the Kangaroo River and at Basin View where both Lorna and Brian would be on the Lorna Maureen Smart Lorna loved all her family and delighted in water after a Flathead or two at first light. giving them gifts, food and lollies, together with She will be greatly missed by Brian, her 30/3/1936 - 20/7/2011 lots of love. Lorna loved working on the dairy farm and family and all her friends.

Lorna was born on the 30th March 1936, the especially enjoyed milking the cows. We love you Lorna, Mum, Nanna. eldest child of Nell and Jack Sharman of She would assist Brian in the making of hay and later in the year feeding the hay out to the cows. Rest In Peace. Upper Kangaroo River. She had two sisters, Aileen and Yvonne and two brothers, Keith and Harold. Lorna attended school at Upper Kangaroo Valley and later at Bowral High School. Historic landmark set to be auctioned an interim owner/manager, Mr Bryan Rutter, When Lorna was 16 she met Brian, her The Friendly Inn Hotel on Moss Vale who was removed in a tense set of future husband, at a Ball in Kangaroo Valley Road, Kangaroo Valley is listed for circumstances, which still sees him in court – and they were never parted for nearly 60 auction on August 18 at 10-30 am by seeking redress from the the mortgagors in years. CBRE Hotels. possession. It would appear there has been a reasonable Lorna and Brian were married in the Church The Voice understands that efforts are afoot to level of interest by several prospective buyers in of the Good Shepherd in Kangaroo Valley on establish a syndicate of “local investors”, keen the property, which has undergone several the 27th November 1954. on seeing the redemption and expansion of The changes in ownership and management in recent After a honeymoon in Victoria, Lorna and Friendly Inn hotel to its days of previous glory years. Brian commenced share farming on Jim as a focal point of so many of the Valley’s Built in 1892, the hotel sits on a 3.5 acres site in Sharman’s property at Upper Kangaroo social occasions and a facility for local groups the commercial centre of the village the two Valley until 1956. to utilise as a central meeting place story structure was recently partly renovated by August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 4 Letters to the Editor (continued) A Community Newsletter will be distributed Diners can make a selection from eight entrees, detailing the outcome of Council’s meeting and anyone of which would be pleasing to the As you mentioned, early editions were a lot outlining the way forward for the project. palate. of hard work. In other scheme news, the progress with the Our choice for Mains was The Nok Tod Kra The necessary volunteering has continued to treatment facility access road has been slowed by Tiem (Deep Fried Quail, Jing Jo style) was very this day - for which we all indeed thankful. the recent wet weather but still remains on target appetizing and the popular Massaman Beef for completion prior to the main contractor Curry (very subtle but satisfying flavours), Geoff Butterworth commencing construction on the treatment accompanied by Vegetable Fried Rice. facility. A comprehensive wine list is available to The Editor Council wishes to acknowledge the ongoing compliment your meal. cooperation of Keith and Ron Nelson with regard Jing Jo's also provides a Take Away Service Tenders close for sewerage scheme to the access road negotiations. which seemed very popular. contract Council also wishes to thank RTA project staff Thank you once again for this prize; it was a involved with the Hampden Bridge works for very enjoyable dining experience. The Kangaroo Valley sewerage scheme is their cooperation, enabling works on water and I am sure that had my four chosen guests been another step closer to reality with tenders sewerage assets to be undertaken in conjunction available that they would have enjoyed the closing on 9 June 2011 for the design and with the current bridge works so as not to cause evening also. construction of the Scheme’s infrastructure. additional disruption to traffic in the future. Heather Kelly The tender was well received with eight For further information on the Kangaroo Valley contractors providing bids by the closing Sewerage Scheme please call Council’s Project The Editor deadline. Manager, Robert Horner on A tender evaluation committee analysed the (02) 4429 3223. Appreciation of the Voice submissions with a view to determining the Robert Horner contractor that would provide Council and the Cleaning out a cupboard, I found a few way community with the best “value for money”. The Editor back copies of the Voice. For the Archives, do Due to the specialist nature of the project, the you need 2001 issues of May, August, sensitivity of the local environment and high A joy to win September, November and December? level of community engagement required, the tender evaluation gave an equal weighting Thank you to the Jing Jo Restaurant and the Thank you for the Voice -- it's a good week between price and non price criteria. Valley Voice for the opportunity to enter and win when one is in the mailbox! The aim of this methodology was to target their recent competition. You keep us informed, involved and in contractors with high level experience and The venue was cosy especially on a cold wet night 'gossip'. The Voice is an important record and performance with similar projects while and intermit with soft lighting. I like to think of historians in the future providing a competitive price. On the menu is a wide selection of authentic Thai building a picture of our society and what we A tender evaluation report has been prepared food, catering to tastes of small family groups, have cared about through the many issues. for Council’s consideration at its Ordinary large celebrations, parties and intermit diners. Alice Oppen Meeting on 26 July 2011. Tasty food is available at moderate prices. Editors note: Mine host (David) provides a detailed explanation Our thanks to Alice and others who responded of the Thai flavours and cooking methods. to our call for copies.

technology. ADFAS August lecture Print-making is a truly democratic medium that uses a bewildering variety of different The Australian Decorative and Fine Arts processes. Society illustrated lecture for August is Visitors are welcome to ADFAS lectures at a entitled “The Magic and Mystery of the cost of $20 entry which includes supper. Come Print”. along on Thursday August 4th at 7.30 pm to This lecture, by Mr Michael Howard MA BA the School of Arts, Alexandra St, Berry. Hons, will look at some of the greatest and most A reminder regarding the September 15th enduring images ever made by artists such as evening lecture which will NOT be at Berry Durer, Rembrandt, Goya, Picasso and Hockney but will be held in the Nowra Players Theatre, who have made this magical process their very Meroo Street, Bomaderry. own. With thanks, Cecily Hewett Artists have always been fascinated by the ADFAS Publicity meeting of the human imagination and August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 5 All systems go for Folk Festival We have the best line up yet for singing, playing, poetry or songwriting at one of Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival from 21- the workshops with our featured artists.

23 October in Australia’s most Kids’ Festival beautiful valley. As usual, we have a fantastic kids’ festival, Featured local artists include Frencham featuring The Puddin’ Eaters, Super Kenny, Miss Smith, The Pigs, Pat Drummond & Karen Molly’s Maypole, Naomi’s Craft Tent and lots Lynne, Wheeze & Suck, Rough Red, The more. Frencham Smith one of the headline acts Blue Goose Band, Chloe & Jason Roweth, Volunteers Wanted The Original Snakeskins and the Badja A minimum of 6 hours volunteer work entitles festival and to get to know some of the River Quartet. you to a free weekend pass. performers. They are joined by 40 other acts in 5 venues. Some volunteer jobs: set up before or pack up Accommodation is needed for the nights of Visiting from Scotland is the duo Tattie Jam. after the festival, ticket office, check wristbands Friday 21 and Saturday 22 October, with some Textured with crunchy harmony and unusual at venues, bar (RSA required), waste team, venue possibly staying Sunday night as well. flavours, it's home- management, traffic control. For volunteering or billeting, contact Sally or made in Scotland Stuart Leslie on 44215538 or 0412 288923. by the unique Billet a Performer In return for offering a bed and breakfast to one Earlybird tickets are on sale now at our website pairing of cello, or more homeless performers, you will receive a www.kangaroovalleyfolkfestival.com.au frets, and the free weekend ticket for your family. voices of Seylan It’s a great chance to be involved with the Stuart Leslie Baxter and Ruaridh Pringle. Toe-tapping jigs are reeled out on banjo, mandolin, guitar and bass fiddle, and though cheekily Scottish, Tattie Jam they don’t care what the neighbours think.

New Acoustic Venue We’re very excited to have the use of St Josephs Church this year.

The Thirsty Night Singers (based in Kangaroo Valley) are part of the 2011 festival lineup

What better place to enjoy the sweet harmonies of choirs, acapella groups and instrumentalists? Compared to some of the larger festivals, all of our venues are small and allow you to get up close and personal with the performers. Poets will love our daily poets’ breakfast and our annual bush poetry competition.

Dance Till You Drop This year there are dance workshops all weekend, plus a welcome bush/contra dance in the hall on Friday night and the dancers’ dance in the historic Upper River Hall on Saturday night. Workshops include Irish, Estonian, Bush, Contra, German, Morris, Flamenco, International and English country dancing.

Join in

Hang out in our famous session bar with the fabulous view of the valley’s trademark red cliffs. Learn some new tunes at one of our hosted sessions or learn the finer points of August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 6 At long last the Draft LEP goes on exhibition Shoalhaven City Council has placed its The template also provides for local flexibility in Government’s South Coast Regional Strategy. new Draft Local Environment Plan recognition of Council’s important planning role. “For instance, the draft LEP implements the (LEP) 2009 on public exhibition for a Shoalhaven City Council Mayor, Paul Green said requirement of the regional strategy to add to period of 13 weeks from Monday 18 that once completed the document would guide employment lands in existing economic centres all future planning decisions via zonings and by rezoning 92 hectares of new industrial land July until October 14. development controls. at South Nowra, which will help to provide The draft Shoalhaven LEP will become “I’m very pleased that Council is now in a employment opportunities for Shoalhaven the City’s major ongoing strategic position to present this extremely important residents,” said Mr Whitworth. planning tool. Once completed, it will planning document to the City,” said Clr Green. “It also implements the recommendations of a represent the most significant change to “The completed Shoalhaven LEP will have NSW Government independent review implications for residents throughout the entire initiated by the regional strategy into a number planning and development in the City so I would strongly encourage all residents of sensitive coastal sites. Shoalhaven local government area in to take the time to view the document and make “It will help meet the ongoing housing needs more than 25 years, replacing the current comment before the closing date on 14 October.” of the area, with a particular focus on new LEP which dates back to 1985. The Department of Planning and Infrastructure’s housing around Nowra Bomaderry, and

The new Plan has been prepared to be Southern Region director Brett Whitworth said implement the regional strategy’s aim to consistent with the NSW Government’s the NSW Government had provided some protect regionally significant employment standard LEP template, which supports a $161,000 in funding towards the preparation of lands, including HMAS Albatross naval base common format and terminology for new the draft LEP. and Ulladulla Harbour. council plans to make them easier to Mr Whitworth said the draft LEP implemented “The Department has worked closely with the understand. many of the key directions of the NSW Council on its LEP for some time and I am very pleased to support it being placed on exhibition.” The draft Shoalhaven LEP will be available for viewing at six separate locations throughout the City during the exhibition period. These include -

Nowra Administration Building - Bridge Road, Nowra Ulladulla Administration Building – 14 Deering Street, Ulladulla Bay and Basin Leisure Centre – 167A The Wool Road, Vincentia Nowra Library – 10 Berry Street, Nowra Ulladulla Library – 81B Princes Highway, Ulladulla Sanctuary Point Library – 34 Paradise Beach Road, Sanctuary Point

Further to this Council has launched a new specialised website, www.slep2009.shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au to coincide with the exhibition period.

This new website will include links to the entire document, mapping, extensive background information and will provide users with the ability to make a submission online. Computers with links to the website will be set up at most of the separate exhibition locations.

“There are a host of ways to find out more information before making a detailed and informed submission about the draft Shoalhaven LEP,” said Clr Green. “Council has organised a number of exhibition locations, an informative website dedicated exclusively to the draft LEP as well as a host of fact sheets that will carry information on all facets of the draft Plan. “On top of this Council staff will be attending a series of community drop in sessions throughout the City as part of the exhibition process. Details of locations and dates will be released closer to the meetings.” After the exhibition period, Council will have an opportunity to consider the submissions received before finalising the LEP and submitting it to the Department for approval. Fudge Addiction: Mixed pieces Beaming with Health: Tea canisters Tht August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 7 … and already serious questions are being raised A community group has urged caution “The important thing to remember is that the The 13 week Exhibition period commences on with the release of the draft LEP. Council that was elected in September 2008, 18 July, details are available of the Council The release of the Draft of the new Local with eight new Councillors, has continued with web site. this flawed process. Environment Plan (SLEP2009) for For further information contact: This new LEP will have far reaching Shoalhaven City has been cautiously ramifications for the future of the Shoalhaven,” Alan Burrows, Convenor SLEP2009 Review welcomed by the SLEP2009 Review Mr Burrows said. “Get it wrong and we will live Group, Ph: 4441 8855 E: Group. to regret it.” [email protected] This community group, which comprises Mr Burrows said the Review Group was Rick Gainford, Chairman; Berry Alliance Ph: representatives of 20 community ratepayer and encouraging all residents and ratepayers to 4464 2446 resident organisations, environmental carefully study the Draft SLEP2009 and to Keith Learn, Kangaroo Valley Community committees and other interested citizens, has contact their local Community Consultative Association Ph: 4465 1117 been monitoring the preparation of the draft for Body (CCB) if they need advice on making Graeme Gibson, Chairman; Huskisson & the past 21 months. submissions to Council. Woollamia Community Voice. A spokesperson for the Group, Alan Burrows, Details of CCBs can be found on Council’s Ph: 4441 8885, 0408 676 550 said although the eventual finalisation of the website. www.shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au. Brian Saunders, Chairman; Vincentia plan would be welcomed by all, there were In addition to Council’s consultation on the new Residents and Ratepayers Association Ph: serious concerns about some of the proposed LEP, many CCBs, either jointly or separately, 4441 6431 changes which would irrevocably alter the will be hosting community forums to help people Peter Hudson, Chairman; Red Head Villages character of the Shoalhaven’s towns and understand the changes. Association Ph: 4456 4070 villages. Residents and ratepayers should check notice Jan Shalhoub, Secretary; Ulladulla and “These changes,” Mr Burrows said, “stem boards and local newspapers etc, for details. Districts Community Forum Ph: 4454 3195 from the basic process elected Councillors have followed. In 2006 Council adopted an administrative Kangaroo Valley Sewerage Scheme contract awarded change-over from the existing LEP to the new After a detailed tender evaluation, Shoalhaven provision of a transfer main from the village to format required by the Department of City Council has now awarded the Kangaroo the treatment facility and a reclaimed water Planning. Valley Sewerage Scheme (KVSS) contract to storage dam. The process was supposed to transfer zones AJ Lucas Operations Pty Ltd. “It is very exciting to see the awarding of and land uses from the old LEP to the new plan The contract caters for the design and contracts for this very important project and I on a like-for-like basis. construction of all required facilities for the look forward to the commencement of works This process did not require any community KVSS including a pressure sewer system, in the not too distant future.” input.”“However in July 2008 Council’s transfer main from the village to the proposed Council’s Director of Shoalhaven Water, General Manager advised Councillors that by treatment facility, a water reclamation facility Carmel Krogh highlighted the background including one-off re-zonings and refusing to (Membrane Bioreactor) and a reclaimed water work that has been carried out to bring the include height limits for many areas of the storage dam. project to this critical milestone. Shoalhaven, they had gone far beyond an The KVSS will drastically improve the current “Due to the specialist nature of the project, the administrative change-over. sewerage collection system and connect sensitivity of the local environment and high Those changes should have required Kangaroo Valley into the Reclaimed Water level of community engagement required, the community input,” Mr Burrows said, “but this Management Scheme (REMS), providing vital tender evaluation targeted contractors with a hasn’t happened.” irrigation to both local farms and recreational high level of experience and performance with The Draft SLEP2009 that has been put on facilities throughout the region. similar projects while still providing a Exhibition from 18 July does not include Shoalhaven City Council Mayor, Paul Green said competitive price,” said Ms Krogh. height restrictions for residential, rural and the awarding of the KVSS contract provided “The successful contractors are also currently environmental zones, albeit that there is an another notable milestone for the project saying constructing the Robertson Sewerage Scheme.” attachment requesting comment on the he was now eagerly awaiting the beginning of inclusion of HOB Maps for R2 and RU5 zones. Funding for the $18M project is being construction works. “In not setting maximum height limits for these provided by Council, the Sydney Catchment “The Kangaroo Valley Sewerage Scheme will zones, building heights will effectively Authority and the NSW State Government. utilise a pressure sewerage system to provide a increase from the existing 8.5 metres (two Ms Krogh advised Council that the state reliable and high quality sewerage service to the storeys) to the new default limit of 11 metres government has confirmed that funds have Valley,” said Clr Green. (three to four storeys). been allocated in the NSW Country Towns “This is a very large scale project with the new Many people are likely to be very apprehensive Water and Sewerage Program up to a sewerage system including on-property about these changes.” maximum of $5,6M. installations and street reticulation along with the August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 8 They collect mattresses and electronic goods and Australian bottle collections because this divert them to small independent industries product is clean. VIEW Club where the components are extracted and The bottle collection industry in South Kangaroo Valley VIEW Club July recycled. Australia is a private enterprise and for Luncheon meeting report. The mattress covers are discarded, the high example produces a product that Coca-Cola It was a clear and sunny winter’s day tensile steel springs and the timber frames are needs. when a smaller than usual group met for recycled. Avalynne’s talk gave us much food for thought This not only reduces waste and pollution but and we look forward in September to visiting lunch with winter taking its toll on our creates jobs locally and income for this business council’s waste management sites and the numbers due to people away and others run by Mission Australia. small businesses using the collected waste. unwell. The same occurs with components from our old Our next meeting and luncheon will be held on Those of us there enjoyed the company and the TVs and other electronic goods. Friday 12th August at the Kangaroo Valley lunch which included some of our newer Council also collects papers, glass and plastic. Bowling Club at 11.30 am for 12 noon. members. These are increasingly being recycled. There will be no guest speaker as we will be Like all charities the Smith Family has This brought Avalynne to the subject of bottles having a special day looking back at Kangaroo reported decreased donations. and the introduction of a bottle deposit scheme. Valley VIEW club’s album containing photos Our VIEW Club is supporting a Smith Family South Australia has had such a scheme running and history of our club. Learning for Life student and so we encourage successfully for many years. We invite everyone to come, past and present all members to come to the monthly lunch and Individuals collect and take their glass and members, especially past committee members. meeting so we can continue with this important plastic bottles to a depot where they are refunded Please come armed with memorable venture. 10c for each item. (10c is added to the price at happenings of days gone by to share with Making a difference in a child’s education will the time of purchase). everyone. make a difference in their life. Queensland and Victoria have just introduced As I looked through these albums I saw many Our speaker this month was Avalynne Wilby schemes but although it has gone before familiar faces who are not present members, so from Shoalhaven Council. parliament in NSW a number of times, each time I urge you to come and share this day. Her topic was waste management. the introduction of such a scheme has been If you are not a present member and wish to All councils are high polluters as they collect defeated. come please phone Jan Starkey and let her and dispose of waste. Such a scheme decreases littering and therefore know. With the introduction of a carbon pollution tax pollution and would save all councils in NSW If you are a present member and are unable to all councils will be affected. money because if the same scheme is introduced come please phone Jan Starkey on 4465 2080 She explained that unlike some other councils, as followed by South Australia small or email [email protected] by 6pm on Shoalhaven has been pro-active in finding independent businesses would develop and jobs the Wednesday before the meeting. ways to reduce pollution and to manage waste. would be created and councils would be relieved It is necessary for us to provide the Bowling For instance they are diverting the methane of the expense of collecting and disposing of Club with accurate numbers. produced from the land fill site where our bottles. household waste is deposited and using it to She told us that Coca-Cola in NSW Jeannette Dumbrell generate electricity. manufactures plastic bottles from South Publicity Officer

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E: [email protected] • W: www.hchc.com.au August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 9 Trivia. It’s all about “those yungens”

Kangaroo Valley Public School has a curly Trivia questions. mighty fine reputation. You’all help us raise enough gold dollars to Our town yungens do all that high falut'n make a difference in our school and make it the smart stuff, like read'n, writ'n and envy of the entire Shoalhaven .

'rithmatic. Why its you who have given those kids extra Not to mention having fun run'n, swim'n, books for the library and extra classroom support sing'n, act'n and fine draw'n. teachers, not to mention those fandangled For sure those teachers are a clever bunch who electronic white boards in every classroom! work hard round'n up our kids and gett'n 'em Why, there’s no endin’ to the things you do for learn'n; but they can't do it alone. that school. Cowgirls and Indian

That's why, for goi'n on to about twenty five And those yungens sure do appreciate it – you up trivia and some fine country music at the years odd or more, the mighty fine folk of can be certain of that. hootin'est, tootin'est shindig of the year! Kangaroo Valley have come down from the And so we are askin’ you, the good people of Saloon doors will swing open at 6 pm – Trivia hills to hoot 'n holler, socialise an' answer Kangaroo Valley, to help us again as we try raise begins at 7 pm. those some funds to go towards a weather-proof Book yourself a table for 8-10 wild westerners coverin’ for that outside by call’n that sly ol' John Bacon on 4465 1082 assembly area. (BH) or 4465 1003 (AH). Sarah Butler You see the shade cloth there has dun worn out and the rain, well it just keeps on a land'n on those clever young heads dur'n assembly, recess and lunch. It's enough to send a chill down anyones

spine. So saddle up them horses, put on your wildest, westest finery and mosey on down to the House of Nil Dispute for a night of shoot 'em Wild west gang Tom and Jaxon August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 10 These included, John Hinton, Alison Baker and Paul Williams. The night included some of the medical profession who are now servicing the members of The change over dinner was a big night. this community. The theme of the night was fun and some The Peggy Synold Memorial Award for services to the 35 members and guests enjoyed community was awarded to themselves and reflected on the past year. David Selby for all his Nicky and Gerard prepared a feast and a good countless hours and time was had by all. commitment to many groups Of particular mention was the number of and individuals in the valley. awards given to members of the community A reward well targeted and who support lions and have done so for a delivered. number of years. I am sure that the community is grateful for David’s efforts. Some of the club members From left: Dan and Jan Cole with Lorraine and Franz Mairinger Kangaroo Valley Post Office acknowledged were Carolyn Active Lions making a difference for the community Green, Marjorie Wilkie, Think Stephen Green, Lorraine and Franz Mairinger. The tree planting program has started and globally The President Howard Carter and Treasurer Jill while we have met what was expected of our Transact Turnbull were also acknowledged with the club club our local target is still some way off and locally giving them James Richardson awards. with the storm of the last couple of weeks the Bendigo The Lion of the year was given to a relative urgency to replace the trees lost has increased. Bank newcomer, Jan Cole. Many members were in the path of the

Stationery CBA All awards were well deserved. destruction so they will be busy when they try

NAB and fix their own places up to return to some sense of normalcy. St George The International Convention for Lions was IMB recently held in Seattle and Kangaroo Valley

Illawarra was represented by Franz and Lorraine. C.U. The next twelve months will be a challenge for the club as we struggle with the age of some Teachers members and the increasing demands for us to C.U. assist the community. Ink cartidges Police C.U. Enquiries of potential new members are always

Visa Cr welcome. Those still interested in applying for a role as a Mastercard Cr lifeguard this coming season are reminded that the closing date for applications is fast + 70 more approaching. financial Jason Horton Planet Ark recycling institutions Paul Williams with his award from Howard Carter

services at berry: physiotherapists • physiotherapy mark burns • hydrotherapy belinda henry • falls prevention barbara peattie • home visits pat moore doug moore services at gerringong alison crofts are the same as at berry plus: • womens’ health/continence massage therapists • massage therapy laura stoertz • dry needling luke bartolomei • gym membership psychologist • psychology janine gent • exercise programs • podiatry podiatrist nathan wolhuter

for all appointments please call gerringong on 4234 4666 August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 11 Local students graduate from University with flying colours Two ex students of KV Public School graduated from Wollongong University on July 20. Lewis Keane and Melinda Smart both attended the primary school, completing year 6 in 2000. They then went their separate ways in high school, Lewis attending Nowra Anglican College and Melinda to Bomaderry High School At the completion of their HSC in 2006 they commenced study at Wollongong University where after some time they crossed paths again Lewis graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree, majoring in economics and International Business Studies. He plans to travel throughout SE Asia and India for the next year before starting work in his field Melinda graduated with distinction with a Bachelor of Commerce degree, majoring in economics and also with distinction with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Geology and Physical Geography. She plans on travelling throughout Britain and Europe over the next three months before the New Year as a Geologist Kangaroo Valley doing well in the studies after commencing work with BHP Illawarra Coal in How good it is to see local students from having such a great start at the local school?

August Newsletter Hi There The next “Shoalhaven Meet The Providore Dinner” is on Wednesday 3thAugust, the Providore is David Marshall from Terra Teta Truffle Growers, and the Vineyard is Silo Estate & Wileys Creek at Berry, book now to avoid disappointment on telephone 02 4464 1074, remember this event is limit to 35 persons. We wish to extend our sincere thanks to Carole & Ian from South Coast Providores and Ben Wallace from Coolangatta Estate or their support in making our last Dinner such a success.

Again a reminder of our Birthday Special, book a table of 4 and receive a free meal for the birthday person, book a table of two and receive o bottle of wine. To take advantage of this offer, just produce evidence of your birth date. You might like to try either our special Degustation or Celebration Menu to help you make your evening with us even more special.

Have you joined our VIP Club yet? You will also receive Loyalty Cards for both Food and Coffee. Just email us at [email protected]

Breakfast, Brunch and Luncheons are now available on Saturdays and Sundays at the Pavilion although bookings are essential. Alfresco on the “Veranda” and we do have ceiling heaters, or “By the Fire”, the veranda is also doggy friendly, come in and read the weekend newspaper and enjoy a free cup of coffee for your partner.

From the 7th of August we are planning to open the Restaurant on a Sunday Night for a Traditional Roast Dinner with a Soup of the day and a dessert for $25 pp. Bookings are essential for this event.

Looking forward to meeting you soon, The Pavilion Team

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ABN 890 440 920 83 August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 13 to play outside all day, and by 6. 00 Reflections Power failures: Survival successes o’clock were ready One recent Monday morning our 9-year Having experienced the constant power failures to crash, so the lack -old grandsons couldn’t wait to get to there over the last few months, the first thing she of TV or DVD’s said was: “ I never go anywhere in Christchurch didn’t provide a school with their news. problem. But they It wasn’t quite worthy enough to be anymore without my head torch, but I thought: I’m going to Australia. I’m not going to need it couldn’t understand included in the class “News” but they had there!” It certainly would have helped. why they weren’t considered it. Our house is fully electric, but we do have a working. “Guess what we did this weekend” they small generator and Chris had rigged up a system “Because the chorused to their friends. “Our washing of party lights (with the coloured bulbs replaced power’s not on” machine broke down and we all had to do the by ordinary clear ones) around our living areas. didn’t mean a thing. washing up together. We actually had to DRY “It looks just like a cabaret” enthused our niece, A better explanation the dishes. It was fun.” Zoe. We were able to cook on a small primus to them may have “Yes, I had to do that once, too. It WAS fun” stove and on the BBQ, despite the fact that a been “They’ve run bemusedly agreed one of their friends. fallen tree was hanging rather perilously above it. out of batteries.” by Jenelle Brangwin I don’t know how long the “fun” appellation Icecream provided an easy dessert, as long as it They probably would have lasted had this become a regular was all eaten at one sitting. would have understood that. Once they’d gone chore. After all, they find their normal task of The ladies at the supermarket told me they to bed, the adults were able to wind down with clearing the dishwasher so boring that they couldn’t believe how much icecream they candlelit dinners in front of the fire. No one must try to avoid it at all costs. were selling when no one had any freezers to could complain about that. But it does make you think of all those family keep it in! Water, of course, was a problem, as I feel that the way the world is going with activities that were normally once part of we have to pump it from tanks. such heavy demands on shrinking resources everyday life that actually provided time and The kids loved it: no baths! And washing up and an aging infrastructure to handle those space where various family members could once again became a family occupation, as we all resources that we are going to have to get interact. All sorts of discussions used to take waited, towels in hand, for the tiny dribble of used to finding ways of going without the place over the “dishes”. water, amazingly still just warm nearly three seemingly unending supply of power we Once again during this past week we have all days after we first lost power, to provide enough have become used to. had to resort to an older style of daily life as water to try to wash dishes for eight people. Maybe my grandsons will be part of the last we have experienced several days without The kids, unused to so much space, were happy generation to be amazed at such family power. We all managed, with varying degrees oriented activities as “doing the dishes.” of success and using varying strategic methods, Maybe it will mean we will all have to carry on. to learn to slow down. And that Of course, I’m not talking about situations could be a very good thing. where there were people dependent on As a postscript I would like to power for health or other emergency mention the cooperativeness of the reasons, and for those without any other electricity company in trying to form of heating life would have been repair damage in such terrible extremely miserable. conditions. The weary technicians “I took the opportunity to clean out my fridge we passed on the road were still at last,” I heard one person say. “My generator able to smile, as we and hundreds got its first decent run since I’ve had it” of others kept asking when the reported another. Not everyone has generators, power would be returned. And but local shops did a roaring trade in candles when it was, the courtesy call from and lanterns of all types and sizes. Endeavour Energy to see if We had to join a queue at The Red Shed to get everything was all right was much our gas bottle filled. One caller to the local appreciated. radio had a brilliant suggestion: bring in all your solar lights from the garden and rig them up in the house for the night, then the next day put them back outside to recharge. Of course, all this happened in the middle of the school holidays, which didn’t make things any easier, except for those families who were away. It didn’t help the kids much either. I remember well when blackouts were Open 7 days a week 7 am to 5 pm common in Sydney in the years after the War. It was always a very satisfying feeling to be able to go to school the next day, safe in the knowledge that uncompleted homework would be accepted as an uncontrollable result of the previous night’s blackout. How many people can remember the ditty: Melbourne’s on the Yarra, Perth is on the Swan, But give me good old Sydney, Where the light’s are never on! Because it was the school holidays, many families had relatives and grandchildren staying with them. We had a houseful: an extra three adults and three children under the age of four. Our niece had arrived from Christchurch on the first day of the blackout. August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 14 Ideas and expectations of what it is to be a man Out of this has grown a number of annual and what a man must do to feel he is fulfilling men’s gatherings held Australia wide, where Men’s work his life purpose today, present a very different men come together for a few days to explore Hear this term and what comes up more proposition to the days where women’s business these questions, and generally celebrate other often than not is the idea of men doing was defined by what was happening in and ways of defining how they see their place in physical labour; doing things that their around the home and children, and the man’s job the world. was to simply go out into the world to ‘bring strength and power allow them to do; the In September of last year, a number of South home the bacon’! kind of things that the fairer sex might Coast men decided to hold such a Gathering. struggle with, or may have little interest in Sadly these days, many men often have trouble It was called MASC (Man Alive South Coast). doing in any case! It’s good work and gives finding their right place and purpose. Weighed The general consensus from the men who the average bloke a feeling of being relevant down by misplaced perceptions and expectations attended was that this kind of event was unique and important in the world. coming from both inside and outside of and a very important forum for sharing,

Yet these values have changed in the modern themselves, and lacking obvious guidance and learning and community building, and should world and are no longer necessarily enough. support, they can become confused and distant. become an enduring event. This can then lead to self-destructive behaviour So the cry was heeded, and the second annual patterns and a “snowball” effect where the Gathering is on again this year! Information Kangaroo Valley Markets younger generation of boys and young men about it can be found by either visiting the are held on the following them, have fewer positive role models Men’s Wellbeing website 2nd Saturday every month to aspire to, and the community is left (menswellbeing.org..au), and following the diminished. links to ‘Common Ground Events’, then 8.30 am-2.30 pm MASC. Or alternatively interested men can Over the last twenty years or so there has been a contact either Dave Macquart on 0402 121102 with proceeds going towards the growing number of men who have become or Neil Fox 0402 016564 from the MASC Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival. disquieted enough by these issues to be prompted committee. The dates are September 16-18th, to commence a dialogue with other men to try 2011. The venue will again be Berry Sport and For more information contact and search out a new definition of themselves Rec Centre, just outside of Berry. Jane Richter 0402 635 785 or email and ‘men’s work’. This has been most significantly articulated in such works as Steve All men are welcome! [email protected] Biddulph’s ‘Manhood’ among others. Dave Macquart

INFORMATION SESSIONS ON THE DRAFT SHOALHAVEN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2009

The draft Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan (LEP) 2009 is currently on public exhibition until Friday 14 October 2011.

The draft LEP and information on the draft LEP can be viewed at www.slep2009.shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au.

A number of public drop-in sessions are planned during the exhibition period. You are invited to drop in at anytime during the session to view the exhibition material and to talk to one of the LEP Project team.

Location Venue Date Time Berry Berry School of Arts Wednesday 4pm – 7pm 10 August 2011 Nowra Reception Room Monday 4pm – 7pm Council Building 15 August 2011 Culburra Beach Culburra Beach Community Wednesday 4pm – 7pm Centre 17 August 2011 Huskisson Huskisson Community Centre Monday 4pm – 7pm 22 August 2011 Sussex Inlet Sussex Inlet Community Centre Tuesday 4pm – 7pm 23 August 2011 Sanctuary Point Sanctuary Point Youth & Tuesday 4pm – 7pm Community Centre 30 August 2011 Ulladulla Ulladulla Civic Centre Wednesday 4pm – 7pm 31 August 2011

Enquires regarding the draft LEP and the information sessions can be directed to Council on (02) 4429 5377 or via email to [email protected], quoting file number 38430E. August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 15 Anti Coal seam gas movement gathering steam Awareness is growing about the Coal According to the Southern Highland News article Sunday October 16, 2011 has been chosen as Seam Gas mining implications and last week the company is drilling 30 boreholes in the National Day of Action on coal seam gas. thanks to the film Gaslands, the the Belanglo State Forest as part of 120 holes in This marks the beginning of National Water information is reaching more and more the Sutton Forest Coal Lease. Week so it's a very appropriate time for actions On 14th July the Wingecarribee Shire Council that highlight the importance of respect for, people. voted unanimously for the third time to express and careful management of, our irreplaceable Residents who missed the film screening th their total opposition to new coal or coal seam water resources. on Friday 8 at the Community Hall can gas mining in the Southern Highlands but this Our K.V group may be interested in borrow copies of the DVD from the Post has been ignored by the company. undertaking some kind of CSG awareness Office. Contact Peter Martin Convenor raising activity on this date. For those who know little about Coal Seam 0418 800 111 Visit the website at Contact the K.V Co-coordinator Jillian Naidu Gas, it is often referred to as unconventional www.shoocockatoo.com. at: [email protected] Gas, or Coal bed methane and should not be The Stop CSG Illawarra Group is another local confused with Natural gas. community group campaigning for a moratorium Christine Nobel It is methane gas found in coal seams. on CSG mining, a Royal commission into all Methane gas is a greenhouse gas more than 20 (1) Ref http://lockthegate.org.au/factsheets/ aspects of CSG mining and a ban on fracking. times worse than CO2. They can be contacted at When burnt, methane produces 40% less www.stop-csg-illawarra.org greenhouse gas than coal, however the process Update on licences GetUp is considering a campaign on CSG of removing it from the coal seam sees a large exploration. The NSW Government will implement amount of fugitive methane escaping into the It puts up several ideas for campaigns and asks a state-wide audit of all coal and coal atmosphere, so any perceived benefit is members for an indication of which is/are to be seam gas exploration licences. nullified. (1) preferred. The audit forms part of the staged In NSW alone there are plans to drill 14,000 Votes are requested, and people are invited to implementation of the NSW Government’s test wells into the coal seam. join GetUp and cast their votes. It has been proven overseas that this results in Strategic Regional Land Use Policy and is Go to http://suggest.getup.org.au/forums/60819- the contamination of the water supply. expected to be completed towards the end getup-campaign-suggestions/ There are many hazads involved with the gas of the year. suggestions/1512631-stop-the-fracking-coal- extraction and further information can be Member for Kiama, Gareth Ward said he had seam-gas-industry? sought by visiting the websites below. concerns about the potential for coal seam gas tracking_code=6ba68ca9af4177856d93eef18b8f Southern Highlands residents have earnestly exploration in the Illawarra and the chemicals 6825. begun their fight against this form of mining. used in the fracing process. Hume Coal’s drilling activities have started in Readers may also consider joining Lock the Gate He also commended praised the commitment Sutton Forest. alliance for $10. to identify examples of non-compliance with Hume is a front for Korean Steelmaker Visit their website: the terms of exploration licences. POSCO. http://lockthegate.org.au/documents/

August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 16 Colour your world with original art like these beauties

Above: Gymea Lillies. Oil on canvas by Julie McKenzie

Top right: Cross trackings. Oil on canvas by Lissy

Bottom right: Almost home. Acrylic collage by Yvette

Below: Sunrise 1. Print on paper by Malcom King

The Gallery in Kangaroo Valley 149 Moss Vale Road Open 10 am until 4 pm each day. [email protected] 44 651 621 August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 17 July— it was a time for blowing in the wind alright It’s a man’s world being sold by the hectacre but by the litre.

My mate, Unfortunate O'Day, told me about his cousin who lives in Canberra. It was so cold, one of his fingers fell off. He went to the hospital. the doctor asked him what happened. "I don't know.. I'm a rock and roll singer and there I was, waaiting for a bus and I was rehearsing one of my songs. I clicked my fingers,just like that… Oops, there's another one gone. Sean Kramer

As the saying goes: it's an ill wind that Cooking on an open fire was an interesting doesn't blow some good. exercise. What with burned hands and cut And let me tell you, the July wind was not fingers from the tin opener. at all well. It was very ill. It wasn't until the next morning, while looking out the window at the devastation, that I saw In fact it was downright diseased. it...the gas powered barbeque. In human terms it was on a par with the plague, So instead of a roast dinner, we sat around eating smallpox, typhoid, gout and bunions. tins of beansl. It was Shakesperean in its proportions. I pointed out that I expected to come across three witches sitting we should count around a cauldron. our blessings The Man I could imagine Lear and Prospero pleading because we were with John Bell to put on a musical. safe from the High country mountain ride If Noah had wind like that instead of rain, he terrible wind, to Tel: (02) 4465 1912 would have cancelled the trip. which the Leader 24 Hillcrest View Lane I would not be at all surprised to hear that of the Opposition Barrengarry Bush walk on horseback because of the strong wind, Australia has been exclaimed: "We NSW 2577 through the rainforest blown twenty kilometres to the east. & mountains of would be if you Kangaroo Valley The wind, made visible only by the dancing stopped eating the Web site www.kangaroovalleyhorseriding.com trees, their leaves touching and kissing in the beans." hurley burley of the ballet was beautiful to watch....for about twelve minutes. We can be Obviously the trees were exhausted from thankful we didn't dancing because four of them rolled over. have rain. A fifth tree tried to lie down but the wind was We've had plenty so strong, it kept getting blown back up again. of that. I heard we

The chook pen, which, under the auspices of had so much rain the Leader of the Opposition looks more like a that properties chook McMansion: it has a window with lace were no longer curtains, a door with house numbers and a letter box. I don't know why. My house doesn't have a Public notice letter box, but the chook pen does. Correction: the chook pen had all the above Dr. Jeanette Keir MBBS (NSW), mentioned articles, but now alas, thanks to the Has opened rooms at the Kangaroo Valley Community Centre (Ambulance Station). wind and the willow, now looks like a Sydney Hours street that fell into the hands of a developer. Mondays 2-30 pm to 5-30 pm Having no power, we were all huddled around the fire on which we cooked our food. Tuesdays and Wednesdays 9-30 am to 12-30 pm Correction: on which we burned our food. and 2-3o pm to 5-30 pm Where were you Dr. Rosemary when we needed you. Thursdays 9-30 am to 12-30 pm Although the apprentice leader of the Consultations and house calls by appointment Opposition, who had some girlfriends staying, said that toast made on an open fire, and I 44 652 007 and 0467 492 524 quote "is 300% better than toaster toast." Please note the surgery will be closed for one week from The girls all agreed. They all failed maths. Monday September 5, 2011. We will re-open Monday September 12. August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 18 These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in A tale of discovery Utah So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads Railroad have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads? tracks. Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of The US standard railroad gauge destroying their wagon wheels. (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways and that's the gauge they used. Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways Since the chariots were made for Imperial used the same jigs and tools that they had used Rome, they were all alike in the matter of for building wagons, which used that wheel wheel spacing. Therefore the United States spacing. standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an The engineers who designed the SRBs would Imperial Roman war chariot. have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but Bureaucracies live forever. the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the So the next time you are handed a factory to the launch site. The railroad line specification/procedure/process and wonder from the factory happens to run through a 'What horse's posterior came up with this?' , tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly army chariots were made just wide enough to wider than the railroad track, and the railroad accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. track, as you now know, is about as wide as (Two horses' posteriors.) two horses' behinds.

Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the Now, the twist to the story: So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of spacing of When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its what is arguably the world's most advanced the wheel launch pad, there are two big booster rockets transportation system was determined more ruts. attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. than two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's posterior. And you thought being a horse's behind wasn't important? Ancient horse posteriors control almost everything... and the current horse’s behinds in Washington are controlling everything else.

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We thank Lin Obern for this thoughtful piece and hope our American cousins are not too offended (we too have politicians). August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 19 Bridge restoration project enters last phase From Monday 25 July there has been The area around the bridge will once work on and around Hampden Bridge again be an active worksite each Monday to Friday. from today. As was the case during the first stage of In the interests of the safety of other motorists, pedestrians and the work, bridge closures will be limited to workforce on site, please continue to between 6 pm and midnight each Tuesday, drive carefully on the bridge and Wednesday and Thursday. observe the temporary speed limit in After the bridge re-opens on these evenings place. some work may continue from midnight until During stage two work will include approx. 1.30 am securing deck timbers; while completion of the bridge redecking, the bridge will be open there will be 'stop/slow' rebuilding the bridge abutment on the traffic control in place for this hour and a half. village side of the bridge, replacing The temporary community shuttle bus service the corresponding two bridge and carparking arrangements in place from bearings, removing and replacing the 6pm to midnight during stage one closures will central mid-span pin and partially also resume this week. Pedestrian access across reconstructing the central trusses. the river will continue to be via the temporary The road surface on both approaches construction scaffolding. Pedestrians are will also be upgraded and much of encouraged to wear the safety glasses available the truss timber repainted. on site from RTA staff. The glasses offer protection from sawdust and dirt when walking The RTA thanks you for your below the worksite. Stage two closures will continuing interest and co-operation. continue until Thursday 8 September 2011. In the event of wet weather or unexpected For more information or to discuss delays impacting on progress this period may any details regarding the project, be extended by up to two weeks. please contact me on (02) 4221 2586 The RTA will provide advance notice if this or email becomes necessary. [email protected]. Nightwork on Hampden bridge - a misty and chilly job

at our Sunday service. Jordan played music at the Our bible talk series on Sundays is about love Human interest stories, Carols in the Valley last year. as presented in the Bible. news and happenings You are very welcome to come along to our Here’s a spoiler for you: God says that He from our service and stay for a BBQ afterwards. Jordan himself is love. Kangaroo Valley churches will be leading a music workshop at our Valley Want to get your head around that? Youth group on Friday July 12 from 6 pm to 8 Come and find out what that means for you The Church of the Good Shepherd pm, so if you have teens who want to play music and your life and relationships. bring them along. It could change your life forever. Thanks for reading what’s going on at Finally - over the next couple of months come church here. and hear about love here at the Church of the Andrew Paterson We were saddened by the death of Lorna Good Shepherd! Smart in the last month, after a long period of ill health. Her funeral was held on Thursday July 28. We pray for Brian and all of Lorna’s family as they cope with her loss. Over the last month we’ve had two guest speakers, including one from our own church! It was a privilege to hear Deborah Banks from Bugong speak to us on July 17 about how she became a Christian. Deb regularly attends church here. Deborah and her family – husband David, son Josh and daughters Catherine, Frankie and Faith – arrived in the Valley about two years ago. Deborah and David are strong Christians and love gently sharing their faith in Jesus with their neighbours and folk who want to listen. Here’s a date for your diary: Sunday August 14 at 10 a.m. Come to our church hall at this time and date and hear Jordan Worner singing and speaking

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Nowra CBD Masterplan and the further investigation of car parking issues and decisions relating to the City Centre. in the City Centre. “I would like to thank those residents that took Shoalhaven City Council has adopted Shoalhaven City Council Mayor, Paul Green said the time to make have their say on the draft the vision, objectives and principles the completed Masterplan would provide an document. The next levels of planning can now contained in the draft Nowra CBD important overarching vision for the Nowra occur.” CBD. Urban Design Masterplan. “It is very encouraging to see so many Developed through an extensive “The draft Masterplan is an extremely important residents making submissions and putting workshopping process, the draft document designed to help stimulate economic forward their views on the strategies that will growth and achieve environmental sustainability Masterplan will guide strategies to guide the CBD into the future.” within the Nowra CBD,” said Clr Green. revitalise the CBD over the next 25 The draft Masterplan also encompasses the years. “The document will provide a framework, vision outcomes of a workshop held on the future of and strategic direction for future investigations the Riverfront precinct and Nowra Pool. The draft Masterplan objectives include –

Protect and expand the regional status Shoalhaven Libraries to host special literary event of the town centre by limiting heartening.” excessive coastal growth. Shoalhaven Libraries will be hosting two Strengthen the association of the town of Australia’s most popular authors, Ber After coming to Australia 13 years ago Ber Caroll has written several successful novels centre with the Shoalhaven River. Caroll and Dianne Blacklock, at a very Activate the river precinct and special free literary event taking place at including Executive Affair, Less than Perfect, Just Business and The Better Woman. encourage tourism opportunities Nowra Library on Wednesday 17 August. Participants at this unique event will be offered through improved access. These two best selling writers will offer personal the opportunity to ask both writers about their Reinforce Nowra’s future desired insights into their lives as authors and talk about previous catalogue of works and future writing character through controls on the experiences that helped form their highly plans. height, mass and bulk in town successful careers. Signed books will be available for purchase on centre. Author of the well known Call Waiting, Wife for the night while refreshments will also be Create a town centre heart through Hire and Almost Time, Dianne Blacklock said served. improved civic facilities, open she was looking forward to the opportunity of Ber Caroll and Dianne Blacklock will speak space, entertainment and leisure connecting with her readers. about their writing careers at a very special facilities. “I spend months and months creating a fictional free literary event taking place at Nowra Integrate the traditional shopping centre world, becoming attached to the characters, Library from 6.30pm on Wednesday 17 with the retail facilities approved living with them in my head and then suddenly August. east of the Princes Highway. one day, they’re off to the printers and out into For more information or to book a seat please the big wide world,” she said. Other items central to the draft Masterplan contact Robin Sharpe on 44293 710 or email “So when I get mail from readers talking about include the regeneration of Junction Court [email protected]. my characters like they know them too, it’s very August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 21 Change of plans still gave the garden group plenty to crow about Our 6th Annual Chicken Run was plagued by torrential rain in the week before and the grounding of Tiger Airways, which meant that one chicken owner couldn’t return by the due date. Thirteen of us, however, gathered on a grey morning and went on a shortened tour (rechristened the Chicken Hop). Firstly we drove to Rob and Deb Folkard’s beautifully maintained chicken establishment. Here, with the country sound of black faced sheep bleating in the background, we inspected his moveable chicken pens and then the original pen made in the old dairy and finally the wonderful new shed further up the hill. Rob’s attention to detail, the cleanliness of the housing and the award-winning chickens made us all wish we could start again and try to emulate his system. What a joy it was to wander around the

eating the left over vegetable matter for that month, after which they move to the next section. Thus the chickens scratch up the soil and fertilise the ground in each section twice a year. The vegetables looked delicious and the hens looked very happy. There is a door only on the section holding the chickens and that is moved, along with their covered home, each month to the fallow section. This is the prototype building and I Photos clockwise from top: Chris Francis and am sure that Chris would be his structured coop system. Chris explaining interested in talking to others and the system to visiting valleyites. even organising the building of any The Folkard chicken paradise on Wattamolla delightful coops, with not a cobweb in sight, coops/vegetable gardens in the future. Road and finally the and hear his theories on raising good chickens. So, while it was a shortened trip this year, we Folkard patented moving system. We are particularly indebted to Rob’s learnt quite a lot and feel privileged to have seen enthusiasm as this year, with all the pitfalls, the these interesting ideas “in the flesh”. Afterwards Kangaroo Valley Chicken Run may not have got off the ground we all went to Berry for a delicious lunch and without his offer to share his love of his hens. then the sun came out! The second visit was to a very different, but Garden Group

just as magnificent, chicken paradise. Chris Francis, in Berry, has a fabulous system for his hens: he has built a round structure with eight sections (two of which are entrance corridors opposite each other) and in each of the other six he grows vegetables. Every month (on the first Sunday of the month when he goes to Berry Markets and buys his seedlings) the chickens are transferred to the next section and allowed to scratch around, August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 22 Mortgage Tax Our readers write: This time talking about taxes Personal Income Tax Property Tax Not one of these taxes listed below Death Tax Poverty Tax existed 100 years ago and our nation Dog License Tax Prescription Drug Tax was one of the most prosperous in the Driving Permit Tax Real Estate Tax world. Environmental Tax (Fee) Vehicle Tax We had absolutely no national debt, had a Excise Taxes Retail Sales Tax large middle class and Mum stayed home Federal Income Tax Service Charge Tax to raise the kids. Fishing License Tax School Tax Petrol Tax (too much per litre) Accounts Receivable Tax Vehicle License Registration Tax Health Tax Airline surcharge tax Vehicle Sales Tax Hunting License Tax Airline Fuel Tax Water Tax Interest Tax Airport Maintenance Tax Watercraft Registration Tax Liquor Tax Building Permit Tax Well Permit Tax Luxury Taxes Cigarette Tax Workers Compensation Tax Corporate Income Tax Marriage License Tax And now someone wants a Carbon Tax ! Goods and Services Tax (GST) Medicare Tax Give us a break!!!! EXHIBITION OF DRAFT SHOALHAVEN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2009

Notice is given that draft Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan (LEP) 2009 will be on public exhibition from Monday 18th July 2011 until Friday 14 October 2011 (inclusive) between 9am and 5pm at the City Administrative Centre, Bridge Road, Nowra.

The draft LEP applies to all land within the Shoalhaven Local Government Area (LGA) and will ultimately replace Shoalhaven LEP 1985. The new draft LEP will control development and guide planning decisions made by Council, and will incorporate the strategic direction outlined in the Nowra Bomaderry Structure Plan and other strategic plans.

Also out for comment are Council’s intended changes to the Height of Building Map and the recent changes to the Standard Instrument or LEP template.

The draft LEP and supporting information will also be available for viewing online at www.slep2009.shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au, and at a number of different locations throughout the City including:

· Nowra Library – 10 Berry Street, Nowra · Bay and Basin Leisure Centre – 167A The Wool Road, Vincentia · Sanctuary Point Library – 34 Paradise Beach Road, Sanctuary Point · Ulladulla Administration Building – 14 Deering Street, Ulladulla · Ulladulla Library – 81B Princes Highway, Ulladulla

Council will also be hosting various public information sessions and ‘drop-in sessions’ to enable the community to view the draft LEP, speak with Council staff and make submissions. These opportunities will be separately advised. For more information on the locations, dates and times of these sessions, please visit the project website.

Written comments on the draft LEP are invited and should be made in writing before 5pm on Friday 14 October 2011. Submissions can be made in the following ways:

· Online at www.slep2009.shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au , or · By email to [email protected], or · Post to: SLEP 2009 Submission Shoalhaven City Council PO Box 42 Nowra NSW 2541

Please note the substance of submissions made to Council on this matter may be made available to the public or included in a Council report without notifying the correspondent. Pre-printed form letters, which have been individually signed, will be considered but not formally acknowledged.

If you lodge a submission, you must declare any reportable political donations (being donations of $1,000 or more) or gifts made in the previous two years and up to determination of the planning application. This includes donations or gifts made by an associate. More information about your disclosure obligations and a copy of the Disclosure Statement Form can be found on Council’s website at www.shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au or www.planning.nsw.gov.au/donations.

Any enquires regarding the draft LEP can be directed to Council’s Strategic Planning and Infrastructure Group on (02) 4429 5377 or via email to [email protected], quoting file number 38430E. August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 23 The Dalai Lama in Australia Having lived in Nepal for six months I basis for a way of life – have always had a fascination and generosity, ethics, patience, respect for the Buddhist faith. enthusiasm, concentration So when I heard His Holiness, the Dalai and wisdom. While many in the audience Lama, was coming to Australia I jumped were devout Buddhists and at the opportunity to have an audience were attending to gain a with him and listen to his teachings first deeper knowledge of the hand. teachings of His Holiness - Why? I don’t really know – but there was a there were those of us who deep desire to see the man who has were just curious or who consistently advocated policies of non- shared a common pull violence, even in the face of extreme towards greater humanity. aggression. But we were all there to gain I am not a political activist, nor am I Buddhist, some wisdom from this man but I like to think I have an altruistic view on of peace. life. My favorite thing about Having volunteered as an aid worker several seeing him in person is that times now I totally admire the Dalai Lama’s he was not what I expected. activism towards peace and liberation for all He was funny! humanity. His talks were charismatic Editor’s note: The aura in the room was palpable, and when and he giggled impishly when he spoke. We are always interested when Valley His Holiness entered, I felt a shift in all of us. But there was a serious side and I was constantly residents do something different He describes himself as "a simple Buddhist reminded of the one great question that underlies and want to share their experiences monk", but this took on a deeper meaning as he our experience, whether we think about it with our readers. shared personal insights on love, loss and consciously or not: Email: [email protected] compassion. What is the purpose of life? Donning a red sun visor, the joyful spiritual I left the Dalai Lama feeling uplifted and leader’s contagious cheerfulness and sense of reassured that no matter how big or small we are, humour had us laughing throughout the talks. we can all do our bit to make this world a better Valley Guide to His Holiness presented teachings over two and place. a half days in Melbourne based on the text by “With realization of one's own potential and self- eating out Shantideva 'A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of confidence in one's ability, one can build a better Life'. world.” Dalai Lama He explored six perfections that provide the Australian Bistro Visions at the Valley Why residents should bother with the SLEP2009 44 652 820

The convenor of the Shoalhaven Local Village areas, restricting heights to 8.5 metres, Mediterranean Environment Plan SLEP2009 Review however the Review Group strongly Group, Alan Burrows has expressed recommend that people make the effort to send Café Bella concern that residents might not take Council a clear statement to NOT change this 44 651 660 “intention”. the trouble to follow proposed changes to the plan. Mr Burrows has urged residents to take Thai advantage of information sessions that Council “The plan is a 160 page document full of will hold and public forums that will be hosted Jing Jo complex planning information and associated by Community Consultative Bodies. with maps that cover the entire Shoalhaven. 44 651 314 Working through this is a major task for The LEP Review Group represents 20 local people with no background in planning.” community associations concerned with the A taste for all palates Draft SLEP2009. “It is well documented that the process which Jack’s Coffee House Council have followed in the development of For further information contact: this draft has been seriously flawed. In Alan Burrows, Convenor SLEP2009 Review and Eatery particular the community have been denied Group, Ph: 4441 8855 E: [email protected] 44 652 796 involvement that should have taken place. This makes the effort required to ‘catch up’ so Rick Gainford, Chairman; Berry Alliance Ph: much greater.” 4464 2446 Modern Australian cuisine Keith Learn; Kangaroo Valley Community The Woolshed Restaurant “Shoalhaven is the only Council among five in Association Ph: 4465 1117 the region not to have included height limits in Graeme Gibson, Chairman; Huskisson & Open Friday and Saturday residential areas. This allows 11 metre Woollamia Community Voice. Ph: 4441 8885, from 6:30pm buildings (3 to 4 storeys) on blocks as small as 0408 676 550 500 square metres,” Mr Burrows said. “I think Brian Saunders, Chairman; Vincentia 4465 0200 most people would not support such an Residents and Ratepayers Association Ph: arbitrary increase in heights. However unless 4441 6431 Value—service and people make their feelings clear to Council, Peter Hudson, Chairman; Red Head Villages this is our future.” Association Ph: 4456 4070 good choice it’s all here in Reference to Fact Sheet 19 states “Councils Jan Shalhoub, Secretary; Ulladulla and Kangaroo Valley. intention to map” low density residential and Districts Community Forum Ph: 4455 3574 August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 24 August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 25 their partners, carers and 2011 Tulip Time to support Parkinsons families. Parkinson's NSW seeks Wingecarribee Shire Mayor, Clr. Ken This year’s partnership with Parkinson’s NSW to make a positive Halstead, recently announced that will greatly assist our efforts to ensure its contribution to the Parkinson’s NSW, is the charity sustainability and attractiveness as a community provision of treatment partner for the Southern Highlands event whilst also providing valuable exposure and professional support and financial benefits to a volunteer based services for people with 2011 Tulip Time Festival, which this st network such as Parkinson’s NSW.” Parkinson's disease. year will celebrate its 51 Anniversary CEO of Parkinson’s NSW, Miriam Dixon They also provide in-service training and as one of Australia’s leading flora highlighted that “there is a real synergy between education for health professionals. events and one of the only remaining Parkinson’s NSW and Tulip Time. The tulip is The 2011 Tulip Time Festival will run for 14 Charity Based flora festivals in NSW. the worldwide symbol of Parkinson’s disease and days from September 20 until October 3, Mayor Halstead said “The partnership is a symbol of hope for a cure. throughout the Southern Highlands. between Tulip Time and Parkinson’s NSW The Tulip is a strong, straight upright and sturdy An exciting program of events and activities will ensure that the 2011 Tulip Time flower. are planned and will be under pinned with the Festival will continue to be positioned as The petals of the flower are symmetrically key message of ‘hope and strength’. divided to represent the two sides of the brain. A central colour theme of purple will adorn the one of regional Australia’s ‘must attend’ A special red and white Parkinson’s Tulip was streets, businesses and gardens of this year’s community springtime events. th cultivated in 1981 by a Dutch horticulturist to festival. Last years record braking 50 Golden honour the work of Dr James Parkinson with the Well known Australian entertainer and Anniversary of Tulip Time has set the Shaking Palsy disease. Parkinson’s fundraising and events consultant benchmark for the next 50 years. Parkinson’s NSW and Tulip Time is the Tulip Marty Rhone (mega hit “Denim and Lace”) is Twosome!” working closely with the Tulip Time Parkinson’s NSW mission is - To enhance the Committee to introduce a number of new quality of life of all people living with events to this years Tulip Time program such Parkinson's. Parkinson's NSW Incorporated is a as ‘Performing for Parkinson’s’- Dinner/ non-profit, community-based organisation Dance, ‘Playing for Parkinson’s’- Music in the established in 1976 to provide information and Gardens, ‘Picnic for Parkinson’ Pitching for support to people living with Parkinson's disease, Parkinson’s’– Golf Tournament to name a few. 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DON”T MISS OUT…LIMITED UNITS AVAILABLE August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 26 There have been numerous principals since People power Thomas Hird, the first. By making things happen John Bond, principal since 2008, is they are making a difference supported by four other teachers, three support teachers, and eight support staff. The staff show an enormous dedication to Kangaroo the school, making it a special place for students, staff and parents. Valley Margaret Barton, the school Administration Manager for 38 years, has seen out five Public principals, and has many special memories School to share. The school’s motto is “Happiness through This article provides another exception Helping” – a great motto by which the children to the column’s general approach of live, it having been a tradition for many years dealing with two unrelated community that the older children look after the younger, across the five classes. groups each month, as the Kangaroo Montana demonstrating "Happiness This undoubtedly helps the school achieve through Helping" with Franklin. Valley Public School P & C Association excellence in all areas – academically, in sport (“P&C”) works so closely with the and the arts. ARTS project (bringing local artists into school itself. Another factor which makes the school unique is the school to work with the children) the number of volunteers, who help out in many The school was first established in 1871, and Full funding for a speech therapist ways, including the school canteen and special moved into its present sandstone building in A full day’s salary a week for a support programs with the children. the village in 1885. teacher learning assistance The school is currently re-establishing the little It provides for the learning and welfare Refurbishing a corridor to create an art gully in the school grounds as an environmental needs of over 100 students, aged 5 to 12 room space education area. years, drawn from a uniquely diverse yet Sporting equipment It was first established about 16 years ago, under harmonious population, including traditional Library books the Work for the Dole Scheme, but has since farming families, professionals, alternative Improvements to the school canteen become heavily infested with weeds, and lifestyle groups and a tourist service Outdoor furniture for the children’s use volunteers are needed to help sustain it. industry. Vegetable garden beds. If any reader is interested in helping with this For many years the P&C and the local rewarding project, or requires any other community have provided the school with information regarding the school, please contact these and other valuable resources through John Bond on 4465 1182. exceptional fundraising efforts. The P&C has been in existence for at least 40 However, it is difficult for such a small years, during which time its leading lights have community to sustain this level of included Dougal Blanch, Garth Chittick and, commitment. more recently, Liz Aitken, Alison Baker, Nell Parents and members of the wider community Briton, Sarah Butler, Helen Gelberman, Gayle – in many cases the same dedicated people Harvey, Julie Mairinger, Bianca Murphy, Eileen year after year - give up literally weeks of their Rebbeck and Lucy Rodden. time to organise events to raise funds which, The current office holders are Bianca Murphy more often than not, are committed to areas (President), Cecily Paterson (Secretary), Lisa which should be government funded. O’Neill (Treasurer) and Lucy Rodden and Ilse The principal fundraiser is the annual Trivia O’Reilly (Vice Presidents). Night, which this year will be held on Saturday The P&C meets approximately monthly in the 17 September, and all readers are encouraged library after school. to continue our community’s customary, Dates of meetings are noted in the Kangaroo (the enthusiastic support of this event. school newspaper) and all parents and citizens For details see the back page of this issue. are welcome to attend. For further information on the P&C, please

The school is well resourced and generously contact Bianca Murphy via the school: supported by its active P&C and the local Address: community. Moss Vale Road, Kangaroo Valley, 2577 The P&C’s expenditure for 2010 exceeded Phone: 4465 1182 $46,000, resources being committed to the Email: kangaroova- following areas: Josh and Olivia receive cross-country [email protected] Smart boards for all class rooms trophy at small schools carnival. Painting the inside of the school hall Tony Barnett This series brought to you this month by the Kangaroo Valley Voice as a continuation of our commitment to community understanding and to stimulate the particpation of old and new residents alike In the wide range of activities available. August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 27 person in Queens [USA] suggested, “I can’t eat The consequences of which is that as medical, Valley finance views an Ipad”. What concerns us is the day to day food and energy costs soar, we have less and by Abacus living, of which it is indisputable food and less in savings to meet those future expenses. There is a great song that starts, “at energy are critical cost factors. And generally speaking, people always last”. Can’t remember the rest, just And any person who shops drives or gets cold underestimate their future requirements in any will tell you here in Australia, energy and food event. those two words and the tune. And that prices have soared. That is why they have gone I was fortunate to catch a renowned is how many of the baby boomers are on a consumption strike that is hurting the retail geographer, Professor James Kirkpatrick AO feeling: I worked hard, raised good sector. on the local radio, and he was explaining kids, saved, a nice house, a life, a wife. And it hasn’t really started yet. The FAO reports where we are headed within the next two …..at last. that its global food price index has reached an all decades as a consequence of this massive food time high – a 39% price inflation year on year. price inflation. He suggested that there will be Let’s talk about inflation. Its cereals index has inflated 71% year on year. reversal of the multi decades of people There are two types commonly spoken about The list goes on and it is important reading. swarming to cities from the country to have a and published: headline inflation and core And it does not take much research to know that career, as people will rush to the country to inflation. Headline inflation includes goods energy cost is going to increase dramatically obtain food. All the secular indicators suggest and services that represent the total inflation in over the coming decades. It has been this is true. Taking that literally, people will the economy. For example it includes the price underpriced for decades and some catch-up is abandon consumerism and move closer to self of an Ipad, the cost vs quality of which has inevitable. Indeed, for energy and food, many reliant sources of food, shelter and warmth. been falling over time, thus representing a fall credible pundits are saying we have already Taking that argument further, it won’t just be in inflation for this product. It also includes passed the tipping point of continuous people from Sydney say, it will be people from food and energy costs, such as bananas and consumption growth in a finite world and it is all all over the world, leaving countries that have electricity. downhill from here [if you have to pay for it, that insufficient food, in their masses, on ships not Then there is core inflation, which is what is, not if you produce it]. boats, and moving to those that have food governments and market commentators prefer What will make it harder for the baby boomers, surpluses. to use. That is because it is less “volatile” they is that just when their income becomes reliant on The expectation there is massive inflation say, it theoretically provides a better measure assets and income from those assets, rather than ahead is also confirmed with the price of gold. because it excludes “volatile” components of employment income, we are experiencing a It has again reached an all time high. inflation in the economy such as “food and period of stagflation – cost inflation whilst Disclaimer: This is not advice. I am not energy”. Thus for forecasters and the elites that income and asset prices deflate. And many licensed to give advice of any kind. Advice can manage the economy [and any payment linked won’t have allowed for it when calculating their be understood as individual advice to a person to CPI such as a pension] they say it is more savings for retirement because they have never about their particular financial circumstances, “relevant”. experienced this high inflation for such a or general advice about investing. So you sustained period. cannot, and should not, rely on anything Now if you are sitting at home and wondering This stagflation is likely to remain for a decade written here. You should only rely on advice which is the more relevant measure of inflation or more as internationally, over indebted people, from a licensed advisor. If this article has for you; what would you choose? Headline companies and countries de-leverage and / or go sparked interest please seek out a licensed inflation of course, after all, as one very wise broke. advisor.

Moss Vale Road (near Dan the pharmacist) August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 28 Star struck By Gerard Keyser

The skies cleared in early July courtesy of the fierce winds and I took advantage of the long nights to catch up with my observing. I won’t spend much time on the planets this month as Jupiter is still an around- midnight proposition (rising around 2AM throughout July) leaving Saturn our prime planetary target. Saturn is still making a nice “yellow” pair with Porrima (γ Virginis) and is worth even a naked eye look each evening to note their gradual separation. Remember Porrima is a beautiful double star in Austrinids, the Southern delta-Aquarids, and Comparing them would be a great observing its own right, here’s an easy way to find one if the alpha-Capricornids. exercise! you’ve never seen a double star before. Saturn Meteor showers are named for the location of This month we continue our deep sky star will be setting at 10 p.m. at the beginning of their apparent radiant point, i.e. trace the path of hopping. August and 9 p.m. by the end so take every the meteors “back” and the radiant is the point The first target for those with telescopes is an chance you can to view this stunning spectacle. where the paths appear to intersect. exquisite planetary nebula NGC 3918, the Right at the end of July no less than three All three of these constellations rise “Blue Planetary”. meteor showers take place and all peak approximately due east after midnight so it is Use the arm of Crux to point to this object and between the 28th and 31s t . quite a feat of observation to differentiate the use averted vision to get the best result. Opportunely this year the peaks occur at time overlapping showers. Any telescope of 100 mm or better will do, a of New Moon but all showers are better Many years of observation have yielded the refractor especially. observed after midnight! common features of the meteors and they are Planetary nebulae carry that name for their In order of peaks they are the Piscis outlined in detail on page 46 of Astronomy shape, this one is the spitting image of Uranus. 2011. Coincidentally Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel and the planetary by his son John. Following the arm of Crux, the Blue Planetary looks exactly like a hazy blue light bulb!

Blue Planetary, NGC 3918 While in this area turn your telescope or binoculars to the Jewel Box cluster near the left arm of Crux or scan to the west for the KANGAROO VALLEY PHARMACY beautiful eta Carinae Nebula. SHOP 2 / 162 MOSS VALE RD. You could also try again for Omega Centauri, the map should help you. From Crux move east PH. (02) 4465 2772 FAX (02) 4465 2773 using the Pointers, alpha and beta Centaurito

find the the constellation Ara, the Altar. In OPEN 6 DAYS: MON-FRI 9 am to 5 pm ancient lore it was sometimes described as the Censer or incense burner, the wide crescent of SAT 9 am to 12 noon stars in the east forming the bowl of the crucible. On a moonless night you can see For all your Prescriptions and all Pharmaceutical Requisites. what appears to be a large plume of smoke (the NATIO (Natural Australian Beauty) COSMETICS Milky Way) rising from the well. For those with a telescope, (200mm would be good), Tired of misplacing your scripts..... look for the two deep sky objects in Ara, We can take care of your prescriptions in our filing system. globular cluster NGC 6397 and Planetary NGC 6326. See us about the Webster-pak System that sets out all tablets and capsules in For naked eye observers enjoy this picturesque blister packs for each time of the day, for each day of the week. asterism and the mystical wisps of smoke that connect you to the ancient observers in COME IN AND SAY HELLO TO JAN & DAN COLE Babylon and Mesopotamia.

AT YOUR PHARMACY Ara, the Altar - Clear Skies

August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 29 Getting ready to trek again The second Kangaroo Valley-Remexio Volunteer Partnership TREK FOR TIMOR is Laura Eringa said "I had a getting closer – Saturday, September 24 fabulous time There’s plenty of opportunity for people to meeting and get involved. working with Do you want to walk? the Gather some mates for either the 14km or inspirational 50km team and Log onto the website (www.kvrp.org.au) and dedicated sign yourself on. TREK FOR There are tips on the website for training and TIMOR preparation – everything you need to know. team. If you’d like a less energetic role, you can lend The a hand by volunteering. organisation There are lots of different things that need to and planning be done prior to the day or on the day. made it great To help, contact Janet Bundey via the website. experience Volunteers in 2009 had a great time. for all concerned, participants and volunteers. Louise Morgan, Peter Morgan, Patsy Raddick, Greg Thompson You really and Jeanne Highland who commented "It was a great day en plein air meeting felt you were those enthusiastic and energetic souls”. making a worthwhile contribution to a truly bush and had a good time” said Sue “I’ll have worthy cause." that job next time!” Sue Prescott and her daughter Gwynne Louise and Peter Morgan ran the welcome volunteered by camping out on the banks of party at the end of Griffins Fire trail, plying Yarrunga Creek, a remote site where trekkers trekkers and walkers with food, drink, had to cross the creek. "We didn't have to do welcome songs and general good cheer. anything...we just camped out in the beautiful Louise said that "We volunteered for a few (Continued on page 45) Helen and John George on duty in 2009 FOR ALL YOUR EARTHMOVING REQUIREMENTS

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August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 30 rubbish off in large pit. Firey Tales Some concerned neighbours had by Cinderfella reported it due to the winds that had We’ve certainly had our fair share of been around, but as it was in the cool wild weather this ‘slow’ season. of the evening there was little danger of it spreading. If you went with last issue’s Guide to This does show the importance of action and built that pile, you’ve probably letting your neighbours know before got a few more to keep it company. you burn off any piles. If you’re going to light them, remember to let neighbours and fire control know. Did you know? That number again: Shoalhaven Fire Control – Electricity will run through green tree (02) 4424 4424. Reminder: permit season starts branches and also wire fences if they on 1 September. are in contact with a live power lines. Look out for more on the RFS Open Day and You should treat all lines as being BBQ, to be held in October or November. alive until such time as the repair Come and meet the brigade, pick up your crews deem them as being bushfire safety info pack, or get a photo with disconnected. the trucks. It is not unusual for fallen lines that All welcome...stay tuned for the date. appear to be dead to suddenly be "Where to from here?" Graeme Mounsey, Matt Mounsey, and July call-outs repowered with no warning as the power is diverted via an alternate grid Terry Rebbeck check their bearings for the next checkpoint. 3 callouts for this month, all largely to do with to try to get the power back on. the wind storms in July. [email protected]. Do not approach closer than 8 to 10 metres of 1ST CALL OUT was to a small grass fire on If the rest of you don’t know where to start, fallen lines and maintain an even greater distance Moss Vale Rd near the rectory, caused by why not... for some of the high voltage lines found fallen and arcing power lines. * Make it a working bee with friends and throughout the valley. The fire was quickly dealt with but the crew family. You can share tips and any cuttings Also bear in mind that branches fallen near then assisted with diverting traffic around the from shrubs you’ve cut back around the house. power supplies could be obscuring live lines. power lines for several hours. * Get the kids involved. The RFS has a website Be alert. From this incident they were then tasked to with games and activity booklets for kids to assist at a number of incidents, with trees down Guide to action: August learn fire safety at www.brigadekids.com and fallen power lines throughout the valley, How are you going with your bushfire * Stock up your library. To buy or borrow, for the rest of the afternoon and into the night. preparation to-do list? there are many books with tips on all aspects: Guys on the chainsaws were kept busy clearing If you need help preparing your property, you building design; being prepared; and even the roads for traffic and electricity repair may be elligible for the NSW Rural Fire Service books written specifically for women. Nowra crews. AIDER Programme (Assist Infirm Disabled and Library has a good selection to start with. And Elderly Residents) is a one-off free service, don’t forget to visit www.rfs.nsw.gov.au for 2ND CALL-OUT was to a grass fire near Crystal supporting vulnerable residents to live more Creek B&B on Moss Vale Rd, which was the latest RFS incident updates or click on safely and confidently in their home on bush fire ‘Publications’ to educate yourself and your quickly extinguished. This appeared to have prone land. started in long grass on the edge of the road family. AIDER services can be provided to vulnerable News most likely from a cigarette thrown from a people who have limited domestic support As reported last month the Emergency passing car. available from family, relatives, friends or other Services Navigation Shield was to be held on 3RD CALL-OUT was to another report of a grass services. the 2nd July at a secret location—it turned out fire on Grahams Rd, which turned out to be a For more information on the AIDER to be at Mt Werong, on the Western side of the false alarm as it was a resident burning some Programme, phone (02) 8741 4955 or email Blue Mountains between Taralga and Oberon. The Valley RFS team was competing in the ANJON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES one-day event this year and finished as the top RFS team, 1st in our Class and 3rd overall top MINI DINGO DIGGER HIRE pointscore in a very tightly contested event. A very good effort overall. Approximately 55 MOBILE LOG SPLITTING teams sought victory in the one-day event, JOHN MCKINLEY from all the Emergency Services throughout NSW and even some from Victoria. KANGAROO VALLEY * MOBILE LOG SPLITTING Our team consisted of David Smart, Mike MOBILE - 0428610 508 * CHAINSAW OPERATING Gorman, Terry Rebbeck, Graeme Mounsey A.H. - 4465 1181 * LAWN MOWING and Matt Mounsey—as you can see, we were big on experience (age) and perhaps not as FAX - 4465 1904 * FIREWOOD SUPPLIES good on condition (fitness). * 4 IN 1 BUCKET Other commendable efforts was the * TRENCHING Shoalhaven SES team coming second in the two-day event and another local Peter Wilson, * POST HOLE BORING in the Shoalhaven Ambulance team, taking * SOIL LEVELLING honours as the top ambulance team in the two- * POLY PIPE LAYING day event and 5th overall. Training 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month * ROTARY HOEING through winter, from 6 p.m at the fire station. * STUMP GRINDING Maintenance Sundays, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the * ANGLE BLADE fire station Info Contact Dave (Dusty) Smart on * RUBBISH REMOVAL 0427 651718 if you’d like to know more about the brigade and its activities, or come along to DIFFICULT & CONFINED AREAS 1.1 MTR ACCESS the Open Day BBQ. August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 31 Try something different by Dr Rosemary Stanton, nutritionist

Hardly a month goes by without some Chia seeds can be eaten raw or you can add them journalist contacting me to ask my to your morning muesli. They can also be soaked and when they form a gel, this can be stirred into opinion of whatever is being promoted mayonnaise. If that doesn’t sound very appealing, as the latest superfood. This month it try making them into a porridge or a sweet was incaberries from Peru. They turned pudding. Bread companies are also adding them out to be what we usually call cape to breads, muffins and some crackers. water (2 cups of water for 1 cup quinoa), bring gooseberries. They come up in my An easy and acceptable recipe adds chi to to the boil, cover and simmer for 15-20 garden, seeded by birds who drop the couscous. Saute some onion and garlic in a little minutes by which time it will have absorbed seeds after enjoying the golden fruits in olive oil and add a couple of tablespoons of chia the water. Use it as you would rice or their paper lantern jackets as much as I seeds and 2 cups of stock and bring to the boil. couscous. do. Stir in 1 cup of couscous, remove from the heat, Quinoa is also popular as a breakfast porridge cover and let it sit for 5 minutes. Fluff up with a and goes well with cooked dried prunes, The name ‘cape gooseberry’ apparently fork, adding a little Parmesan or chopped parsley apricots or any other fruit. It has no gluten and came because they were taken to South if desired. The chia improves the nutritional value is therefore a highly nutritious and appropriate Africa and grew there as prolifically as of the couscous. If you make your own bread, add food for those with coeliac disease. they grow at my place. 2 tablespoons of chia seeds to the dough for a For recipes, go to Giving them the new name of incaberries may delicious slightly nutty flavour. www.goodness.com.au/organic-recipes.html add some exotic overtones. They are Quinoa apparently being grown in Peru, dried and then shipped to Australia where they are coated in Originally grown in the Andes, quinoa was a Amaranth chocolate. Journalists all over the country are staple food of the Incas. The grain is now grown A wide variety of plants fit into amaranth being exhorted to promote them as a new in Australia (in Tasmania and also in the New category. Some are grown and used as a superfood. As it happens, cape gooseberries England region of New South Wales) and is vegetable; other types produce a grain. available in supermarkets or organic food stores. are nutritious little fruits and an excellent Like the other two products described above, source of vitamin C and dietary fibre, but they White or black quinoa is available. The white amaranth was cultivated and enjoyed by the don’t really qualify as a superfood. grain has a milder flavour so it might be best to Aztecs for thousands of years. It’s a useful Other products from South America are also try that first. crop because it grows in quite poor soils. being lauded as superfoods as they appear in Quinoa comes top of the grain class for its Nutritionally, amaranth grain is also a winner our supermarkets and food shops, but they are nutritional virtues. It has a high content of protein with a high content of protein, iron and zinc being grown in Australia. I don’t give any and dietary fibre, as much iron as meat and it plus some calcium and dietary fibre. It has no particular food ‘superfood’ status, but some of scores well for zinc, magnesium, potassium and gluten and can be used as a breakfast cereal or these foods that many of us have never vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6, folate and vitamin E. as a nutritious substitute for rice. included before are worth adding to our regular That’s a fair nutritional line-up. fare. These are foods with a long history of use. Cook quinoa like rice, using the absorption Now that they are grown in Australia and sold I’ve picked a couple of grains and a seed that method. However, it does need to be washed first in supermarkets, they can add interest – as well are relatively new for many Australians. They to remove some bitterness. Just cover it with as lots of nutrients – to our diets. are worth trying for taste and nutritional value. water and then pour the water off. Add fresh They are all also gluten free so useful for those who have coeliac disease or need to avoid wheat. Chia Native to Mexico and Guatemala, chia seeds come from a desert plant Salvia hispanica, a member of the mint family. The tiny seeds have a long history of use in these countries where they formed an important part of the Aztec diet. The seeds are produced by an annual bush that grows to about 1 metre in height, making harvesting easy. Australia now rates as the world’s greatest producer of chia. From a nutritional perspective, chia seeds are a rich source of alpha linolenic acid, an omega 3 fatty acid classified as an essential fat. It’s also found in linseeds, canola and walnuts. The seeds are a good source of protein and dietary fibre and contribute some calcium. Some marketers claim the seeds are a super food, but there are no studies backing their stories that the seeds will help with weight reduction or reduce inflammation, blood pressure or cholesterol levels. August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 32 thinking to oneself that one should remember It isn’t as if Carey can’t keep my attention. My homing something as one drifts off to sleep…. Though Illywhacker, an earlier novel, hardly worked for me, I have loved a number of his Anyway…. after a pretty hard day yesterday thoughts short stories (I actually teach American (eight miles in 85 degree heat in the morning, Dreams to my Seniors – and it always and an afternoon/evening on the front verandah provokes interesting discussions), and was so by Sean Scarisbrick creating bookcases), I still had not come up with impressed by True History of the Kelly Gang, a subject for this month’s essay with which I was in all it’s colloquial glory (the whole thing is in happy. Plenty of vague thoughts, but no single A good story well told the ‘voice’ of Ned Kelly…), that I ordered it germ around which to construct an argument. for my school and will be teaching it this year. “I like a good story well told. That is the So, as is my custom, I read before bed… reason I am sometimes forced to tell them And it isn’t as if I’m not up to the required myself.” Mark Twain … and finished Peter Carey’s most recent novel: reading level that Carey’s fiction demands. Not Parrot and Olivier in America. This was my wanting to sound like a jerk, but working with I find that asking Laura to remind me of second attempt, and the damn thing still took a text is what I do for a living. You can forget something is a good, if mildly circuitous, way good six or eight months to finish. I’ve probably that old gem: those who can’t, teach. I’ve not of remembering things. read a dozen or so books in the interim, reread the space here to deal with that one, suffice to Hamlet several times, read The Merchant of Perhaps the unsure-of-himself boy in me still say that J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit, The Lord Venice for the first time since eleventh grade at needs to impress her, so by putting myself in of the Rings), James Joyce (Ulysses, The Bomaderry High, and have almost polished off a her debt and then demonstrating that I didn’t Dubliners), Aldous Huxley (Brave New graphic novelisation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The ‘need’ her after all makes me appear stronger World), .J.K. Rowling (the Harry Potter series Hobbit. – first billionaire author…), N.D. O’Reilly to her (in my imagination?). Is this not merely a grown-up version of riding a bike past a Parrot and Olivier, by comparison, was an (Symptoms of Homesickness, A Poofcake’s bunch of girls with your hands off the handle arduous slog. Progress), Frank McCourt (Angela’s Ashes), bars or, several years later, on those hot and and Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy, By the time I reached the final page I was weary dusty days, of hooning around gravely Fever Pitch), were all teachers. of it, and had more than a few things to get off mountain roads with your girl a bit too fast – my chest. In the morning. “Hey babe – remind It’s just that the latter-career Peter Carey seems “yeah mate, I made her squeal a bit” – in me in the morning of the title for this month’s to have decided to eschew the vistas of search of the perfect summer swimming hole? Twain’s “good stories well told” for the narrow essay: ‘An Open Letter to Peter Carey.’” Interesting thought, though I think a better and lonely ghetto of literary fiction. His fiction She did remind me, but I had already explanation of the phenomena is that the act of has always been literary, and much of his body remembered and started developing the idea asking Laura is itself an intellectual mnemonic of work in fact exemplifies the concept of good further, hence the essay’s new title. But asking device, i.e.: the verbal act of stating the desire stories well told, but it seems as if along the her helped me remember, and I still have issues to remember creates a more tangible way Carey has become more interested in with Parrot and Olivier. showing off the craft rather than creating a connection in the old synapses than simply cohesive finished product.

As in “Look what I can do”. As in “Time to secure the old legacy”. As in “Can I have a Nobel, please”?

I’ve at least one friend in academia who agrees (but for reasons of academic propriety he must remain anonymous). That this trend has become amplify after Carey’s move from the PUBLIC NOTICE University of Queensland Press to the much broader markets available through Random House, and most recently Knopf, seems almost The National Parks and Wildlife Service (now a Division of the act of a tall poppy cutting off its own head.

the Dept of Environment, Climate Change and Water) are Parrot and Olivier is just a good deal too self- conducting a 1080 fox baiting program in the Kangaroo consciously special. It requires too much subject-specific prior reading for the vast Valley and Budgong areas for the protection of the majority of readers to appreciate his tale. The Endangered Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby. resulting text is disjointed enough that the The baiting is conducted on various private properties, effort of unearthing the plot’s progression erases much of the pleasure that might come NPWS estate, Sydney Catchment Authority estate from following its development.

and vacant Crown land. It’s worth noting that I’m currently reading and All bait stations in this program are permanently baited enjoying Joyce’s Ulysses, which I bought in throughout the year and all properties being baited have Dublin at Christmas for three euros. It’s magnificent, but that hardly means it needs baiting notification signs at their entrances must be emulated. Not that I’m giving advice with the dates when baits are out. here, but I did enjoy Carey’s Jack Maggs, in Dog owners are reminded to ensure their dogs do not which he takes on Dickens’ labyrinthine Great Expectations. wander as dogs are highly susceptible to 1080 poisoning. That was an engagement with the literary big boys (by a literary big boy, even) that worked.

For any further information please contact In contrast to Parrot and Olivier, an example Melinda Norton or Alison Prentice at the of highly literate and engrossing recent fiction is Diane Setterfields’ The Thirteenth Tale. I’m DECCW Highlands Area Office, Fitzroy Falls actually rereading it in the hope that some of on (02) 4887 8244. (Continued on page 37) August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 33 August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 34 escape as she lies “Fresh from the Paddock” down. The introduction of this infrastructure animals and an environmental risk if not Get some pork on your fork… has greatly reduced managed properly and is only suitable in some piglet mortality rates Sadly I’m not clever enough to come up areas of Australia. but can have some with that slogan but I certainly do find Likewise, group housing can often result in welfare implications. animals fighting, leading to animal injury, illness it catchy and amusing enough to In order to ensure the and diminishing the quality of the end product. consider walking to the shops to buy highest level of health This is why sow stalls were first developed. some pork for dinner. and welfare of animals, Pigs are often aggressive animals and the I heard it on the radio the other day and the Pork industry is intensity of this aggression between sows often working on improving thought, “I really need to learn more increases during the early stages of pregnancy. its welfare standards. about that industry”- so this month, that is To ensure that each animal is accessing food and A new code of practice for the welfare of what I tried. remains healthy, they are sometimes placed in an animals was written in 2007 and has some Just like the live export industry has been individual pen during this period. significant changes included. under scrutiny of late, so too has the pork These have been shown to increase the welfare For example, from 2017 sows may only be industry. Sow stalls have been the major of the animals and minimise aggression. housed in stalls for the important first 6 weeks contributor to this debate due to the restrictions However, it has been suggested that well- of pregnancy, the areas of stall will be they place on sow movement when housed in managed group housing can have similar positive increased and sows will not be housed in one. However, the use of these stalls is not a outcomes for the animals, without the obvious farrowing crates for longer than 6 weeks if black and white case and can, in some welfare issues. Generally sows are only housed these are used in the system. instances, possibly mean an improvement to in these stalls for a small portion of their Many pig producers have chosen to move to the welfare of particular animals. pregnancy (6 weeks after mating in a gestation group housing systems, utilising individual There are four main options for housing pigs: length of 3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days). feed stalls within the group area to stop Indoor cement or slatted floor individual pens When a piglet is born it weighs around 1 kg, aggression and ensure that all animals have (usually only for either sows or boars) compared with a fully grown sow which weighs access to feed. The use of sow stalls and Indoor cement or slatted floor group housing up to 250kg. As a result of these large farrowing crates are still being debated and pens- with either group or individual differences in size, many piglets were being while it may be easy to take a negative view, it feeding spaces crushed by the sow rolling on to them, especially is important to acknowledge the benefits to Indoor open-sided sheds, usually with a during the time in which the piglet is suckling welfare they also provide. hopped roof, and a deep litter floor (eg the sow. To combat these high mortality rates, As discussed in previous articles, often it is straw) - these are generally used to house farrowing crates were introduced- which are also difficult to fully maintain the welfare of groups of compatible groups of pigs- attracting much welfare attention. These crates animals and quality of product without commonly growing pigs and groups of dry help to ensure that the sow can move in much the utilising other technology which may not be sow same way as she can in a sow stall, but bars on seen to have the same outcomes. So it Outdoor paddocks (free range) the sides of the crate mean the piglets have a becomes increasingly important that a balance While it may seem that the last system is the separate section of the crate where they can most natural, this can pose a disease risk to the between each can be found. Kiri Broad August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 35 Bushwalkers disappointed in misty conditions which closed the view. Eight of us, on a morning that threatened rain, drove up to Budderoo National Park just past Belmore Falls. Opposite Yarrawa State Forest is Wallaby Hill Road, at the end of which is a gate and access to the National Park along the Yarrawa Track.

Walking here is usually easy, but the wild winds of the week before had left much debris and many fallen trees over the track. Also the very pretty bush had, in many places, been burnt out during the large fires that threatened Belmore Falls not so long ago. Still, this did not deter us and we really wanted to see the wonderful view over Kangaroo Valley from the Les Lambert Lookout at the very edge of the escarpment. So we clambered over logs along Hindmarsh Ridge, braved the showers and kept walking.

We reached the rocky ledge in time for an early lunch, looked out and saw nothing but mist. All the expanse of the Valley, that had thrilled Fran and I the week before when we did the recce, was completely covered. The cloudy view from the Les Lambert lookout

There, we were told by a If the truth be told, it was this promise that had visiting family, that just two kept us going during the earlier rain. minutes before they had been We would recommend this as a great walk to visible in all their glory but do in summer or on a day when the mist is at now they were also covered in bay. that ubiquitous mist. Lee Sharam At least we were able to show our group the photos on the family’s cameras and mobile Special notice phone! The Kangaroo Valley What else was there to do but drive on to Robertson and sit General Store and in front of a fire and drink hot Newsagency chocolate and console ourselves with cake. will now be closing at 5 pm each day Deep in the tangled forest above Kangaroo Valley All that we could see was Maynard Falls and the very top of the Cambewarra Mountain. It was still very pretty, as Tony Barnett’s photo shows, but it was not the spectacular end we had promised to the fairly mundane walk.

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Let's eat.... local! with the seasonal Chef

Thinking back on a recent trip along the beautiful Cornwell coast I can't help but be impressed by the abundance of local produce and normality of it used by cooks on their menus at mostly all the cafes and restaurants we stopped at. Each place had a special relationship with the farmers and artisan producers. There were farm shops which are like a farmers market kind of deal but a permanent shop where locals can bring the goods and sell direct. Each vegetable and fruit had a rating of food miles drawn on a blackboard with a scale of 1 - LOTS , the lots being places like Spain or France. There were jellies, jams, ice-creams cookies This months recipe is one of my own.... and the likes with no fancy packaging to Get to know what's in season because buying in increase the price just a simple label to comply season can be a great way to save pennies. It's Smashed potatoes with olives, with standards. amazing how many dishes can be made from one lemon zest and herbs. Simply put it was.... Uncomplicated food. vegetable and also a culinary adventure that 6 floury potatoes We all know its unrealistic to think you can takes you around the world while still standing in 1 cup of olives pitted and roughly chopped source everything local but do we try hard your kitchen. 1 head of garlic roasted enough? Did you know that within a radius of 150 km zest of 1/2 lemon I guess its quite fashionable to practice this at you can source the following items : mushrooms, 1 good glug of olive oil the moment but if you sit down and work out beef, lamb, pork, kangaroo, chicken, eggs, tea, handful of herbs from the garden roughly where and what is available in your area it sourdough, wine, beer, cheese, oysters, olives, chopped stops being a fad and becomes part of your sustainable sources of fish, school prawns, all sea salt weekly shopping routine. dairy, herbs, vegetables, fruits, cakes and cracked black pepper If you head to markets make sure you ask your cookies, jams, chutneys, ice-cream, pastries. Boil potatoes as you would for mash. veggie man where he got his produce from just The list goes on and on and I apologise if I have Drain and lightly crush, be careful not to because it's in a pretty cane basket being sold left things out but one of the great pleasures of overdo it as you want them nice and chunky at a country market doesn't mean it's local in living here is being able to go on an adventure Pour in olive oil fact it may well be from half way around the and find these new or old things. I guess the big Add remaining ingredients and mix around world when just down the road you have it picture is to get you to think outside of the box until all ingredients are combined. growing and being sold by local farmers. ie: going to the big supermarkets and buy Season to taste. Australian and local. The dish should look chunky and rustic. My homing thoughts If it all seems to much start with one thing and Add more or less ingredients as to your taste then build on from there. there are no rules here. (Continued from page 32) Not only do you get to eat these amazing things her style might rub off on my own fiction. If you also get to meet the people who produce Serve with a steak straight off the BBQ or as anyone has read it and has thoughts to share, or them. part of Tapas if anyone was to read it on my recommendation, I’d love it if you could get back to me at [email protected].

Another recent reading pleasure has been young adult fiction, which continues to demonstrate that good stories well told can reference mythologies and legends and ideas beyond the ken of your average reader, yet still be as engaging as crack cocaine. I’m thinking here of Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Rick Riordan’s Lightning Thief series, Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy, and Marcus Zusak’s The Book Thief, which is one of the single best books I have ever read.

And Zusak is from Sydney, which doesn’t hurt.

Good stories well told. They are why I teach, why I read, and why I should be out on the verandah working on my built-in bookshelves so I can finish (and move into) my library. I love them. They are elemental to our history. There’s a reason that Jesus Christ used them (parables) in his teaching.

They work. Kookaburra August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 38

The Sports Report

King of the Mountain 2011 won in fast time on a perfect day The “King” as it’s known locally, travels from the quiet rural village of Cambewarra via a series of bitumen and gravel roads to the township of Kangaroo Valley. The distance of the race is 32 kilometres which takes in the best sights and native sounds of the local area. The “King” features several fresh water creek crossings (with concrete causeways), rolling hills through unspoilt bushland and glorious views of sheer cliff faces, valleys and ravines. The runners experience all this on their way to the crest of Mount Scanzi - 24 kilometres from the start. With breathtaking views at this point the course takes them down a steep descent and then on through the valley. The final stage of this long distance event finishes with a short run up Moss Vale Road The King of the Mountain was well supprted by the Sydney Striders from left: Alex Parkinson, (Continued on page 39) Andy Stiddard, Matt Nicol, Alex Hahlos, Natalie Jennings, Peter Hibberd and Keiron Blackmore. FOR ALL YOUR RURAL CONTRACTING REQUIREMENTS Hay & Silage

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(Continued from page 38) to the finish line at our picturesque Kangaroo Valley Showground. The Shoalhaven King of the Mountain is run and administered by the Nowra Athletics Club. The 32 km race has been an annual event for more than 30 years and regularly attracts Australian and internationally known runners together with a large contingent of local distance runners. Drink and refreshment stations are provided at intervals of between two and six kilometres.

Results

1st Outright 2.03.41 Alex Matthew from the Turrumurra Trotters

1st Female 2.31.08 Sarah Carpenter Berrima

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Ice and Telephone credits 32 Moss Vale Road, Kangaroo Valley NSW 2577 phone (02) 4465 1986 August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 41 The next week, 25th June, despite the Kangaroo Valley Golf Club cold, was a much better day for golf and Rod Ashbolt played a blinder winning the June Medal with a Nett 66, five better than his handicap. Ron Bower played solidly to his handicap with his Nett 71 while John Innes took third with his Nett 72. On Saturday 2nd July we held a 2 ball best ball completion where teams of two take their best Stableford score for each hole and total them up at the end. Ray Michelsons and John Seyffer had one of those rounds that we all dream about but probably never have. Finishing off at the 18th Their total score was 52 points, with one of them birdieing (to their Saturday morning, the 18th June, handicap) every hole except two and those two although not raining was cold and all were parred. Beverley Golovsky, Chris Lynch, David areas of the course were extremely wet. Congratulations Ray and John, I’m sure it will Golovsky and Sheila Young ready to fire. The greens were fluffy and slow due to the stay in your memories for a long time. Mike Hinton and John Innes finished second Donaldson finishing third with 33 points. inability to mow them close. th If this wasn’t bad enough it was also our with 46 points and Rod Ashbolt and Ron Bower Saturday 16 July, Par competition started out monthly Par round and only one player, Ron took third spot with 43 points. cold and wet with only a few hardy golfers Bower, managed to play to their handicap. John Seyffer won the singles with 39 points and being willing to wait until the rain eased a little The one positive was that there we had enough Ray Michelsons was second scoring 38 points, and teed off around 7:45. beating John Innes on a countback. Several others showed up later after the rain starters for both a Women’s and Men’s th Competition. Saturday 9 July was a very cold morning when had stopped. Denise Weinreis, a visitor won the Women’s the golf balls were as hard as rocks so club Gordon Thomson won with a score of +1, at competition with a score of -1, Suzanne Greer selections were different to normal to the normal 7:30 am start Ron Bower was took second spot with -2 and S. Balgent, compensate for the loss of distance. second finishing square with the card and Peter another visitor, finished third with -3. The conditions were no problem for Steve Atkins Dumbrell was third with a score of -1. who was able to score 40 Stableford points. Ron won the Men’s managing to finish square Until next time Seventy Plus with the card, John Innes was second with -1 Ron Bower wasn’t too far behind with his 37 beating Peter Dumbrell on a countback. points earning him second place with Rick August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 42

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M:- 0408 32 55 88 E:- [email protected] W:- www.billalldritt.com.au August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 46 Murmurings Hampden Bridge latest report from This article is an update on progress The existing work hours and bridge closure Macquarie Street during the first week of stage two of the patterns will also remain in place and are shown RTA's Hampden Bridge Restoration below: WARD CALLS ON NOMINATIONS Project. • There will be some work on and around FOR REGIONAL ACHIEVEMENT Hampden Bridge between 7 am and 6 pm from AND COMMUNITY AWARDS

All the work planned this week was Monday to Friday when the bridge is open and completed with another 12 metres of Member for Kiama Gareth Ward advised accessible to traffic. that with less than four weeks until timber deck removed and replaced. • On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays nominations close in this year’s NSW/ACT A temporary support was also installed (only) Hampden Bridge will be closed to traffic Regional Achievement & Community underneath the bridge abutment on the village from 6 pm until midnight (only) with the Awards, time is running out to nominate our side, in preparation for the replacement of the majority of structural bridge work planned each leading community organisations, businesses bridge bearings and other reconstructive work week completed during this time. and groups. around the abutment. Nominations are now open in the following After the bridge re-opens at midnight on these On Thursday night the 6 pm closure was categories: evenings some work may continue until delayed by 45 minutes following approximately 1.30 am as the team secure deck The Crown Lands Crown Reserve Trust a car crash on the Princes Highway at Nowra. timbers; while the bridge will be open during Award; This was to provide extra time for motorists this time there will be 'stop/slow' traffic control The Crown Lands Community of the who may have been unexpectedly delayed by in place. Year Award; the crash as they travelled to cross the bridge The Office of Trade, Business and before the planned closure time. The temporary community shuttle bus service, Industry Business Development pedestrian access and temporary parking Across the three closure nights this week more Organisation Award; arrangements will also continue to operate as than 200 people used the community shuttle The Office of Trade, Business and they have. bus. Industry Events and Tourism Award; Next week work will continue replacing the Stage two closures are expected to continue The Salvation Army Employment Plus bridge deck and excavation work will also until Thursday 8 September 2011. Business and Employment Award; restart around the village side abutment. In the event of wet weather or unexpected delays The Peabody Environment and Shoalhaven Water and Telstra staff will also be impacting on progress this period may be Landcare Award; on site working on utility infrastructure that is extended by up to two weeks. The Prime Super Regional and Rural attached to Hampden Bridge. The RTA would provide advance notice to the Development Award; and community if this became necessary. The Essential Energy Regional Service

Award Please continue to drive carefully on the Nominate for a chance to win a share in Sports club Secretaries bridge and its approaches and observe the $40,000 thank to the Commonwealth Bank temporary speed limit in place. or an advertising package on PRIME7. please send your All category winners will also receive a Thank you for your continuing interest and co- magnificent hand crafted glass trophy. fixtures, features operation. “The Awards are about providing our and results community with the opportunity for For more information or to discuss any details recognition, there is a wealth of talent in our to regarding the project, please contact me on (02) region, so let’s thank our community leaders 4221 2586 or email and nominate them for this year’s Awards,” [email protected] [email protected]. Mr Ward said. The NSW and ACT Regional Achievement & Community Awards are proudly supported by The Land Newspaper, The Local Government & Shires Associations of

J. T. Rebbeck - Earthmoving Contractor NSW and Sirromet Wines. For more information or nomination forms 4465 1329 Mobile 0414 744 258 please contact the Awards Office on 1300 735 445 or visit the website at www.awardsaustralia.com. NSW to pay bills promptly The NSW Government has established a fairer payment system for small businesses working with government agencies and will pay their bills in 30 days or face being hit with penalty interest. The NSW Government has recognised that a predictable cash flow is vital for small businesses. The Office of the Small Business Commissioner wwill mediate when there is a dispute over the payment of interest between Reliable service, a small business and an agency under the 30 excellent equipment, competitive quotes. day policy. August 2011 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 47 Claim the date! Wot’s on in the Valley

Special events August 2011 Sep 17 P & C Trivia Night

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Oct 1 Ninth Annual Kangaroo Valley B u s t e r K e a t o n S i l e n t M o v i e N i g h t

Oct 21 –23 Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival

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Organisations are invited to use this page to claim the date for any events they are planning, so as to avoid doubling up and clashes with other groups Monthly events Weekly events Mon – Fri Bus Service to Nowra and Highlands - 4423 5990 Mon (1st) KV Rural Fire Service meeting – 7.30 pm – Fire Shed – David Smart 4465 1214 Mon –Tues-Thurs Mass St. Joseph’s 8 am

Mon (2nd) Environment Group – 6 pm – The Gallery in Kangaroo Valley – Mon 1-3 pm Women's Bible Study Peter Stanton 4465 1688 Anglican Hall 44651585 Tues Men's Bowling - 1 pm, Casual Mon (3rd) A & H Meeting – 7.30 pm - K.V. Hall – Donna Parker, 4465 2170 Contact Club 4465 1175

Upper Kangaroo Valley Landcare Workbee. Contact Tess Heighes 4422 7147 Tues 10-12 & 6-8 Iyenga Yoga 44 651 364 for confirmation and location of meeting place. Tues Cuppa & kids Tues (1st) CWA 10 am to 12, 12 Speaker, 12.30 pm Combined Luncheon, Sunday School Hall from 9-30 am 1 pm to 2.15 pm Meeting Wed Mass St Joseph’s 6-15 am Wed Pioneer Park Men’s Shed from 9 am Tues (2nd) Pre School Meeting Finishing round 4 pm with a pint at The Bowlo Werner Bayer 4465 1058 Tues (2nd) KV Historical Society 9 am to 11-30 am Garth Chittick 4465 1367 Wed Mixed Bowling, casual, register by Tues (2nd) KV Pioneer Settlement Trust meeting 12-30 pm to 2-30 pm 12.45 p m, play starts 1.00 p m. Contact Elaine Apperley 4465 2026 Club 4465 1175 Wed KVRFS Training at Shed 6pm

Tues (4th) Lions Club. Carolyn Green 4465 1384 Wed 6-8 pm Iyenga yoga contact 44 651364 Thurs Pilates KV Hall 1 pm—2-15 pm Wed (1st) Pioneer Museum Park. Working Bee 9.00 am to 12 noon Enquiries 44 651 958 Werner Bayer 4465 -105 or Phil Scott 4465 1968. Thurs 5 pm Golf Croquet Walking group P.O. 10 am Thurs (2nd) P. & C. Meeting – – KV School Thurs 1-3 pm Women's Care & share - Fri (2nd) View Club General Meeting and Luncheon – 12 pm – locations as advised Anglican Hall 44 651 585

Sat Mass - St. Joseph’s Church, 8 am Sat (last) Brogers Creek Landcare – Andrew or Liz 4465 1482 Sat 1 pm Social Bowls KV Bowling Sun Bowling Club 'Barefoot Bowls' 1 pm Sun (last) Fishing Club Competition day – Harold Sharman 4465 1140 Sun Anglican Church 4465 1585 8-30 am Traditional service Bi-weekly events 10 am Contemporary service and Sunday School Thursday (1st & 3rd) Men’s Group— 7.30 pm - Bob Dunn 4465 1056 Sun Mass - St. Joseph’s Church, 11 am

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Preschool Jacinta Powell 4465 1327 Police 13 1444 or 4421 9699 K. V. Show Donna Parker 0411014493 P & C Bianca Murphy 4465 1182 Ambulance 000 Alcholics Anonymous Rick 4465 1113 Public School John Bond 4465 1182 Poisons 13 1126 Brogers Creek Landcare Scots College Grahame Allen 4465 1089 Integral Energy 13 1003 Andrew Fitzsimmons 4465 1482 Anglican Church Andrew Patterson 4465 1585 Lifeline 13 1114 Budgong Community Group Sunday School Jeanette Dumbrell 4465 2708 Fire 000 Nicholas Carlile 4446 0591 Catholic Church Anne Dynon 4464 1910 Historical Society Garth Chittick 4465 1367 SPORTS & EXERCISE FYRE Karen Harrison 4465 1699 Bushwalking Fran Pritchard 4465 1599 CHARITIES & SERVICE GROUPS KV Arts Festival Cricket Club Greg Thompson 4465 1531 CMR Institute Isabel Butler 4465 1248 Croquet Club Mary McIntyre 4465 2757 Denise Wright 4465 1963 Lions Club Lorraine Mairinger 4465 1031 Fishing Club Vinnie Winch 4465 1448 K.V.C.A.. Barbara Woodney 4465 1117 V.I.E.W. Club Betty Allan 4465 1154 Golf Club John Rose 4464 2384 KV Garden Group Lee Sharam 4465 1756 C.W.A. Gwen Nelson 4443 3409 Hockey Club Sharon Gomez 4465 1580 KVRFB Captain David Smart 4465 1214 Amnesty Int. Libby Turnock 4465 1357 Ladies Bowling Margery Good 4465 1341 Iyengar Yoga Rose Andrews 4465 1364 Environment Rosemary Stanton 4465 1711 Men’s Bowling Phillip Chittick 4465 1035 Osborne Park/Hall Jacqui. Lenz 4465 1272 Wires 4862 1788 Pilates Rachael Coady 4465 1958 Pioneer Museum Elaine Apperley 4465 2026

Pony Club Ilse O’Reilly 4465 1767 Rock-Wallaby Melinda Norton 4887 8256 AGES & STAGES Tourist Assn Lyn Obern 4465 1391 Rowing Club Gerry Garrett 4465 1419 Cubs/Scouting Gary Thomas 4465 1485 Tennis Club Bruce Rodway 4465 1756 Upper River Progress Assn Cuppa and kids Cecily Paterson 4465 1585 David Loneragan 4465 1364 Group Secretaries - please check & update details

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