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THE WINDELLAMA NEWS Windellama Progress Association Hall lnc. Vol. 18 no. 3–April 2014 Editorial & Layout: Denise Johnson & Gayle Stanton Sec/Treas: Denise Johnson www.windellama.com.au Published Monthly Hard Copy Distribution 400 - Website : 6,000 average/month Windellama, Oallen, Nerriga, Bungonia, Mayfield, Quialigo, Lake Bathurst, Bungendore & Tarago * BURNING OFF? - Notification now required * Windellama Hall is your Neighbourhood Safer Place Windellama News - April 2014 www.windellama.com.au Page 1 Annual Subscriptions - please send your BUSINESS DIRECTORY details and $25 (cheques payable to ‘Windellama News’) to cover the annual cost of postage. Driveway supplies Tradesmen All cheques please post to: Builder Markets The Secretary, PO Box 705, Goulburn. 2580 Electrician Winery * Unpaid subscriptions will be cancelled after one month Entertainment Engineering Glass Soap If you have any short articles, anecdotes, or Handyman Services Septic Services something else interesting about yourself, your family, or the community; please write it down and Health Bitumen / Concrete drop it in our letterbox at the Hall. We will edit it and Home supplies Shed Supplies publish it in the Windellama News. Home Services Heating / BBQ’s A LOCKED POSTAL BOX IS AT THE FRONT OF THE HALL, 3444 OALLEN FORD RD, IN THE Mechanic Bikes & buggies STONE WALL FOR THE COLLECTION OF Nursery Playgroup ITEMS FOR PUBLICATION Office supplies Cattle / sheep Items left in the box after the deadline will not Piano Excavation be collected or included in the News Plumber Contractors Articles, adverts, etc may also be sent by email to: Solar supplies [email protected] Rural equipment Funeral services Adverts sent by email will not be inserted unless payment is received by the deadline. Inside this Issue….. SES / CFR SchoolP & C 7 Our Policy on Receipts The Windellama News makes out a receipt for all Progress Assoc 9 advertising payments made to the paper. We don’t post out receipts to save cost and we assume that the Windellama Garden Club 11 appearance of the advertisement in the paper could normally be taken as proof of payment. Nerriga News 13 If you require a posted receipt please include a stamped self-addressed envelope with your payment. Historical Soc 14/15 It would be greatly appreciated if anyone sending Willowglen Gardeners 17 money to the Windellama News would include their name and address and a note saying what it was for Landcare 19 and put it in a sealed envelope. This would avoid a lot of confusion and uncertainty . Life in Early Goulburn 21 Notice to advertisers, article submitters & readers Windellama RFS 22/23 The Windellama News is published and authorised by the Windellama Progress Association Inc. Whilst every care has been taken in the School News 27 production of the News & publishing to the web page on the community website, the editor takes no responsibility for any inaccuracies, errors or Gardening Tips 29 omissions. All such contributors by forwarding advertising, notices, & articles, agree to indemnify the publisher & warrant that the material is Glbn Dist Art Society 31 accurate & neither deceptive nor misleading, in breach of copyright, defamatory or in breach of any other laws & regulations. Church Info 33 The responsibility for advertisements complying with the Trade Practices Act lies with the person, company or agency submitting such Gallery On Track 35 for publication. Original material appearing in this newsletter is copyright. It may be reproduced in part or in whole for the benefit of the community, provided that the source of the material is fully Classifieds 36-37 acknowledged. If you have any queries about using material from the Windellama News, please contact the editor. Community Information 38-40 DEADLINE FOR ALL ISSUES IS THE 20TH OF THE PRECEEDING MONTH YOUR WINDELLAMA NEWS IS PRINTED BY BUSINESS REQUISITES, GOULBURN Page 2 www.windellama.com.au Windellama News - April 2014 Community Notice Board Windellama RFS Auction FIELD DAY MEETING It must be time to call for kitchen volunteers A meeting to discuss preliminary With so many people in attendance, auction arrangements for this year's field day will be day is always a busy one in the kitchen. If held at Windellama Hall on Monday 14th April anyone has some spare time to help with food at 2 p.m. All ideas welcome. Please join us. preparation on Friday 11 April, or can help out on the day of the auction, Saturday 12 April, Australiian Children’s Laureate we would love to hear from you. Please is to visit Palerang Libraries. contact Rex Hockey on 4844 5147 or Heather Caulfield on 4844 5120. Local author, Jackie French, is coming to Braidwood Library (4842 2091) at 10am & Craft and Market Stalls holders wanted Bungendore Library (6238 0784) at 12.15am We are also seeking market and craft on April 8th to share a story. stallholders who would like to book a site in the Bookings are essential. hall on auction day. If you sell produce, handicrafts, toys, jewellery, clothing and Thank You accessories or any other kind of market item, we'd like to hear from you. A really big thankyou to all those helpers who The auction is one of the big events in the came to the Hall on the Wednesday, Friday Windellama calendar, attracting a large and Saturday of our Fair. Without them we wouldn’t have been able to cope. number of attendees. The market stalls run from 9am to 2pm and are an important part of Thanks also to the Fire Brigade, the SES the event, adding diversity to the day. For people who did gate duties and put on a more information or to book a site please call display; to Jason for bringing sheep and doing Heather Caulfield on 4844 5120. shearing. The wonderful lineup of motor bikes were A music video was recently recorded at organised by Graham, so thankyou for that. Graham & Kathy Price’s place Crooked Creek. From the members of Windellama Garden Club It was written and sung by Guy Walton as a tribute to the soldiers of WW1 and contains Cheerio call rare archival footage from the Australian War Memorial. To Warren Yates, Pam Hibbert, Phil Roberts, Titled The Soldier it can be viewed on youtube Ron Wenban Snr., Di Roberts. The Soldier - Guy Walton and can be All have had recent health challenges. purchased on itunes and is already generating a lot of interest Australia wide. Tarago CWA Book Fair on Sunday 6th April Windellama Excercise Class at the Tarago Town Hall. There will be many At Windellama Hall. Personal trainer attending. stalls including Quilts, Crafts, Cakes, Mondays 9.30am-10.30am, all ages, men & Collectables, Preserves, Lavender, Plants, women, preschoolers welcome to come along Jewellery and Bric a Brac plus books, books with parents. Conducted during school term. and more books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, For info call Sally 4844 7154. Videos and Games. Catering is by CWA including cafe and sausage sizzle. Entry is by gold coin donation. Enquiries and donations to Vicky on 4849 4282. Windellama News - April 2014 www.windellama.com.au Page 3 RON WENBAN Local Electrician Accredited Solar Installer 0428 445 259 [email protected] NSW LIC No: 174303C ACT LIC No: 2008568 CEC Accreditation No: A0597678 ELECTRICAL LICENCES: NSW Lic.No 198855C NSW Lic.No 498875S ACT Lic.No 2009576 QLD Lic.No C13290 ACCREDITATIONS AUS C.E.C. Design & Install Grid Connect & Stand Alone Solar Systems #A3632173 ACT Type (B) Gas Appliance #200732 NSW O.H.&S. General Induction #03655 NSW Confined Space Trained #1140909 Page 4 www.windellama.com.au Windellama News - April 2014 Community Notice Board DAWN SERVICE AT TARAGO PARK AT 6AM Followed by a gunfire breakfast Everyone most welcome Craft @ Windellama Hall WANTED - EDITOR - for Windellama News, every second month. Must know Craft at Windellama Hall is on Tuesday publisher programme. queries please afternoons, except the first Tuesday in the direct to Denise Johnson on 4844 month. 5087. All crafts are welcomed. Come and meet the local ladies have a chat and a cuppa, all for the price of a 1.00. For more information ring Irene 4844 5214 Coming Events… May 3 Historical Excursion June FOR SALE - Demountables - 4 7 School Auction & Fireworks each measuring 7.6 metres long, 2.5 metres wide, 2.7 metres high. total area 10 metres by 7.6 metres. Easy to set up on block peers; Easy to transport. Can separate modules. $20,000 for the lot. 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Clutches, brakes ** SUREPLAN as little as a $1 a week Funeral Fund** Tractor repairs & re-builds Contact our office 4844 5727 4822 4400 Page 6 www.windellama.com.au Windellama News - April 2014 Congratulations Windellama SES First Aid & CFR April will soon be upon us, and with it will come three wonderful people, who have said they will join our C.F.R.