Carols by Candlelight® Is As Much a Part of Melbourne As We Are
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2012 Souvenir program celebrating 75 years vision australia’s carols by candlelight® presented by telecast partner WEEKDAYS .. Photo provided courtesy of Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight ® Candlelight by Carols Australia’s Vision courtesy of provided Photo How sweet the sound... of Melbourne Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight® is as much a part of Melbourne as we are. That’s why we’ve proudly supported this very special event for 74 years. This Christmas Eve, listen to highlights on 3AW 693 or enjoy every minute of our live broadcast on Magic 1278. @3AW693 Download your free 3AW app Ham King’s Lime Glazed Ham PREP 30 COOK 2 hrs SERVES mins 20mins 12 INGREDIENTS DIRECTIONS • 7kg leg ham 1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Line a large roasting pan with foil or use a disposable foil baking tray. Weigh • 1 cup brown sugar ham and calculate cooking time, allowing 20 • 2 tsp ground ginger minutes per kilogram. • 2 tbs Woolworths 2. Remove skin from ham by running your thumb Select Dijon mustard between the skin and the fat layer. Cut skin around the shank and leave end of the bone covered. You • 1 lime, rind fi nely can keep the skin in the refrigerator and use it to grated and 1/4 cup cover the ham for storing as this will help to keep juice it moist. Score the fat layer in a diagonal pattern using a small sharp knife. Be careful not to cut • 2 tbs rum too deep. Transfer to pan. • 1/2 cup white sugar 3. Mix sugar, ginger, mustard, lime rind and juice • 1/2 cup water and rum together in a small bowl until it is a smooth paste. Brush over ham to coat • 3 limes, extra well. Bake for 20 minutes until golden. • Whole cloves Reduce temperature to 160°C and reapply glaze. Continue to cook for a further 2 hours, basting with glaze or pan juices every 30 minutes. 4. Meanwhile, stir sugar and water in a small saucepan over medium heat until sugar has dissolved. Slice limes, add to syrup and simmer gently for 5 minutes. Cool. Lay lime slices onto ham and secure using cloves or toothpicks. Transfer to a carving board or platter and slice. Tip: For the wow factor, replace your cooked limes with slices of fresh lime. For more exciting Christmas ham ideas go to woolworthschristmas.com.au WOL0591_Xmas12_CarolsByCandlelight-FullPage_210Wmmx276Hmm.indd 1 12/11/12 4:16 PM Contents: 7 Celebrating together 8 Neva’s story 10 The stars 16 Song words 23 Thanks to our sponsors Welcome to Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight ® 2012 We hope you enjoy Christmas Eve and the Diamond Front cover: Neva, Vision Anniversary of Vision Australia’s Carols by Australia client and the 2012 Candlelight with this special Woman’s Day face of Vision Australia’s souvenir songbook to help you celebrate. Carols by Candlelight. Photo by Andrew Curtis Whether you’re actually in Melbourne at one of the special event Vision Australia has used its locations or at home somewhere across Australia on Christmas best endeavours to ensure Eve, we hope this songbook brings you the joy of Christmas as that material contained in this you sing along with our stars. We’re thrilled that Woman’s Day program was correct at the has again joined in the spirit of Christmas to help us bring the time of publication and takes magic of Vision Australia’s Carols to you, wherever you live. no responsibility for any error This keepsake book not only has the words to the carols which or omission herein. will be performed and the biographies of the many performers If Christmas Eve is a day of who give their talents and time to assist Vision Australia but total fire ban, the also the story of Neva, the four year-old girl who represents the Metropolitan Fire Brigade will children who will benefit from this wonderful evening. determine whether audience Our children are our future and each year we see children who members will be able are blind or have low vision start school, move on to high school, to light candles. begin university and start work. Each year we see more babies and children who have been diagnosed as blind or having low vision needing the support we can provide. Christmas is a very special time for children and thanks to you, Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight 2012 will help many children, but will also, we hope, bring the spirit of Christmas joy to everyone watching, listening or singing on Christmas Eve. Thank you. 6 Light a Candle visit www.visionaustralia.org Photos left to right: David Speyer Celebrating together Bernie Brookes Ian Paterson This year is a special year for Vision Australia’s Carols by This year Vision Australia’s Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight is a special event Carols by Candlelight celebrates Candlelight. It is officially 75 that brings families together to its 75th year, and since 1979 the years since radio announcer celebrate Christmas. Nine Network has presented Norman Banks came up with A much-loved tradition, the Christmas this wonderful evening live from the idea that initiated the start Eve event sees Melburnians flocking the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. of this wonderful tradition. to one of the city’s most iconic Hosts Karl Stefanovic and Lisa On our Diamond Anniversary, the venues to enjoy an evening of music Wilkinson will once again be joined by star-studded Christmas Eve show and entertainment. many of the nation’s finest entertainers helps shine a spotlight on children At Myer we are proud to support to give family, friends and loved ones who are blind or have low vision. this wonderful event as the the opportunity to share in the spirit of This includes children like four year Presenting Partner for the fifth year Christmas. old Neva. With Vision Australia’s and it is a privilege to sit among the As part of a great tradition Vision support Neva’s family is helping her thousands that pack the Sidney Myer Australia’s Carols stands out as a very to develop the confidence to interact Music Bowl to watch the carols special event capturing the attention of with others, prepare for school performed by some of Australia’s young and old alike. Thank you to the and develop into a self-assured most talented artists. many people behind the scenes who young adult. Myer continues to celebrate help to make this event possible. I’d Without your donations and the Christmas within our communities also like to acknowledge Bernie generosity of our sponsors, Myer, and Myer stores, from the Myer Brookes and the team from Myer for Channel Nine, 3AW and Magic Christmas Windows to Santaland, their ongoing support. 1278 we could not make such a and of course Vision Australia’s Wherever you are and whatever your big difference in the lives of so many Carols by Candlelight. It is our plans for the festive period, on behalf young Australians celebrating pleasure to again celebrate with all of the Nine Network I’d like to say Christmas this year. of you. thank you for your support in 2012 and On belhalf of Vision Australia thank From all of the Myer team I wish you I wish you a very merry Christmas and you for your support. Merry Christmas a happy and safe Christmas and best happy New Year. and happy New Year. wishes for 2013. Ian Paterson Managing Director David Speyer Bernie Brookes Acting Chief Executive Officer, Chief Executive Officer GTV9 Vision Australia Myer or simply call 1300 84 74 66 to donate 7 Neva, aged four, loves to explore and play and is particularly fascinated by the harp (below) used for musical groups at the Kooyong office of Vision Australia. Neva’s story When Neva was born the staff drive and she would have long-term is motivated by sight. Children learn commented on her beautiful vision issues. how to move by reaching out for pale blonde hair but it wasn’t “It was a complete shock to me and objects. As they grow stronger and until she was three months I wondered how my baby girl was more determined they learn to roll, old that her mother, Amy, going to cope with life. It was crawl and explore their environment. discovered that Neva was really, really hard.” Without specialised assistance, going to need special help. Today Neva, four, can’t quite decide children who are blind or have “Neva didn’t seem to focus properly if she wants to be a gymnast or an low vision struggle to meet and the opthamologist told me she artist when she grows up. But developmental milestones. had ‘a little bit of albinism’,” says with the specialised support “Vision Australia has helped us be Amy. “It wasn’t until an early Vision Australia provides for better parents and given Neva the childhood educator from Vision children like Neva, she will be able best start in life possible,” says Australia came to visit me and to make her own choices in life, Amy. “Without that help she would explain what it meant that I realised just like her friends. have been left behind in all aspects Neva wouldn’t be able to go out in of life.” the sun, she wouldn’t be able to This support starts from diagnosis as so much of a child’s development 8 Light a Candle donate online at www.visionaustralia.org Light a Candle Donate now by visiting www.visionaustralia.org I’m Rachael Leahcar, Ambassador for Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight.