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Issue No. 136 September, 2017 and it’s FREE, too News from the Wallamba Watershed is a ‘Frogs Bottom’ Production Max to all the dads in the district Krambach Hall Supper Dance Saturday 30th September, 2017 8pm to midnight Barnie’s Band Details page 4 St John’s Ladies Guild Dyers Crossing NEVILLE Annual Spring Luncheon EARTHWORKS & Fashion Parade Friday 22nd September BOBCAT, EXCAVATOR @ 11:15am & TIPPER HIRE DRIVEWAYS, EXCAVATION Details page 11 GRAVEL SUPPLIES, NARROW ACCESS SPECIALISTS IN THIS ISSUE What’s Happening - Markets & Events - Local History (Wallamba 1927) - Landcare Groups - - Coming Events Prompt Reliable Service Covering - Library News The Great Lakes & Manning Region 0412 075835 Across The Fence September, 2017 - Circulation approx. 1010 - Nabiac, Krambach, Coolongolook & Bunyah Nabiac DVINYL LEATHER REPAIRS & CUSTOM Excavation SEWING OF: Services Vinyl, Upholstery, Leather, Saddlery, Canvas, PVC, Shadecloth, Zips, Velcro, Studs, Rivets. Phil & Ben Martin VANESSA OFFERING A PROMPT, Mobile: 0407 948 755 PERSONALISED 0411 071 156 INDUSTRIAL SEWING SERVICE NABIAC. NSW Editorial WHAT’S HAPPENING SEPTEMBER, 2017 Markets & Events. Spring will have officially “sprung” when you receive this issue and nd although the sky is blue the wind is b… cold. I am sure it is snowing on the ● Bulahdelah (1st Sat) 2 8am to 1pm Barrington. Blackhead Bazaar (1st Sun) 8am to 12 noon ? Good weather for doing loads of winter washing as it dries in no th John’s River (Sat) 9am to 1.30pm time!! Wingham Community (every Sat) Hopefully this will have reached the shops before Father’s Day, but if th not, I hope all of the dads enjoyed a fabulous day and that your kids Myall Quays (3rd Sat) 16 9am to 1pm th did you all proud with at least letting you rest while they did the BBQ. The Hub Taree Showgnd (3rd Sat) 16 8am to 12 noon th I am still trying to shake the dreaded “bug” I caught when I went to Krambach (3rd Sun) 17 8am to 2pm th Sydney to help celebrate my aunt’s 100th birthday. I hope I am as NABIAC (Last Sat) 30 8am to 12 noon th good and healthy and “with it” if, and when, I reach 100. She still Old Bar (Last Sun) 24 7am to 1pm lives alone, drives, volunteers at the local op’ shop and would leave th Pacific Palms (Last Sun) 24 9am to 1pm me for dead as she does her daily exercises (what are those I hear you th say??) and calls the local Bingo twice a week. My mum’s side was of Forster Town (2nd Sun) 10 8am to 2pm rd the old breed, all lived well into their 90’s, even my nan made it to a Halliday’s Point (1st Sun) 3 8am to 11am week before her 101st. Mum actually gave me the “poops” as she Town Head (every Mon) 8am to 2pm th broke the mould and only got to 88. Mt. George (Sat) 8am to 2pm th I have been left with a continual tickle in the throat, gut wrenching Forster Farmers Market (3rd Sat) 16 8am to 12 noon cough and a still stuffed up head, so I really hope we get some rain Bobbin Community —th 9am to 2pm soon to wash the bugs away and everyone can get back to being rd Tuncurry Markets (4th Sat) 23 8am to 1pm healthy. th More new ads. Think I will have to start setting them all out like the Burrell Creek (2nd Sun) 10 9am to 12.30pm phone book so they are easy to look up when you need someone. Mick Hansen, Superior Electrical, has returned to “paradise” after a 4 These dates are from the council web site so could be subject to year absence over the ditch in NZ. Figured out where the good life change really is! You have a choice of going dancing at Krambach, or looking at Phone Lyn on 02 6559 1811 Email: [email protected] Spring Fashions in Nabiac this month, or attending the Show’s belated Production: Lyn Reid AGM on Tuesday 12th at 7.30pm. There is also a massive auction at Contributions To: The Editor, Across The Fence,1 Barry’s Road, Firefly. Taree and DON’T FORGET TO VOTE FOR COUNCIL ON 9th. N.S.W. 2429 or c/- Modern Motors, Nabiac, N.S.W. 2312 - please phone Tilly Cat has been feeling the cold and has discovered the fire and the WHEN you have left articles there to be collected radiator. Didn’t know what they were when she first encountered Contributions should be submitted - in writing - by the 25th of the month for inclusion in the following month’s edition. them and, unfortunately, got her nose a bit “hot” when she stuck it ALL ART WORK IN JPG ONLY next to the radiator grill. Took me a while to realise she had never Disclaimer: The editor has no affiliations to any advertisers and the opinions seen them as her “mom” had air conditioning and her house was just expressed by submitters are their own. warm all the time. Likes to sprawl out in front on them until her tummy is sufficiently hot, then move until she is cool and then returns ADVERTISING COSTS to toast up. If they are not on, she sits in front of them anyway and Advert Size 1 Mth 6Mths (per month) LOOKS at me as if to say, “Well, I am here, turn on the heat!” Business Card $ 25.00 $ 15.00 As usual, I missed lighting the piles again over the winter and they 9cm x 7.5cm $ 30.00 $ 20.00 have brought the fire season forward again because of the winds, so it Half Page $ 60.00 $ 50.00 is going to be continually phoning for a permit to get what I can burnt Full Page $110.00 $100.00 before it gets too hot. One of these years I’ll be organised and get 6 months cost based on payment in advance. them all done in winter. Extra costs if artwork is required or extra ink used RE DESIGN Lost & Found & Freebies are free. Enjoy the days ‘til next month For Sale, Wanted, etc. are charged by size of ad. Lyn & my new mate, Tilley Cat Port-a-Loo Hire now available PO BOX 188 FORSTER NSW 2428 PHONE: 6553 6388 Email: [email protected] Across The Fence – September, 2017 - Page 2 Amazing Aloe Vera Juice Healing; wounds, insect bites, skin Gel disorders, acne, digestive issues, reflux, Soap hair loss, anti-bacterial. Plants Laura Pennington 0409 997 309 Candlarah Farm visitmyfarm.com.au A huge Thankyou for all the Donations to #Sharethedignity program: wow, over- whelmed by the generosity of our small nd so it is. By the time this is read, everyone should community! In particular a big thankyou to the kind be aware that we are now into permit time. Because of predicted weather conditions, the danger period has been gentleman who donated $50 cash to help these women. A st st brought forward to September 1 and will continue until March 31 2018 unless otherwise revoked. THIS MEANS, NO fire without a Product of the month is Nourish, Detangle & Shine Leave in treatment permit. The edit we received from F/com says “Permits for a Spray: weightless long hair fix: great for hair extensions: no more tears maximum of 14 days. SMALL PILES ONLY (3mX3m) and for when detangling children’s knotty hair . the destruction of deceased stock”. Serious stuff and don’t pretend you have a dead cow and want to burn off the back paddock. Some interesting facts to read... Exemptions apply for outside cooking fires. 1. Each HAIR on your head has a continuous cyclic pattern of YOU MUST. Notify your neighbours. Notify the F/Control in your growth and rest called a “hair growth cycle.” area 24 hrs BEFORE lighting up and YOU SHOULD notify your 2. Human hair generally grows at a rate of about 1.27cm each local Brigade. We need to know what’s going down and how best to month. allocate resources. AND, be aware of the weather. DON’T light up if 3. Aging causes permanent hair thinning or hair loss in both men and the forecast is for strong winds, AND which way will it be blowing, women as the body gradually becomes unable to replace shed hairs. straight onto the neighbours washing?? Or haystack. Think a bit. This is obviously a rant but a legitimate one. We all have other things What is hair loss? to do, and don’t need to be attending an incident because of some 4. Hair has a lifespan of between two and six years. Whenever you thoughtless yobo with a fire. shed a hair, a new one starts growing to replace it. Been a busy month. Since we last met at this publication, Nabiac has 5. Hair growth is usually less visible on curly hair. attended some 18 incidents, some not so important, some very 6. In people with alopecia androgenetica (male or female pattern important, a couple of call-offs and one very sad. One worth reporting baldness), the hair growth cycle starts to weaken. As hair follicles concerned a property owner who let a fire drift through his fence and shrink, shorter, finer hair strands are produced. Once the growth cycle into a Telstra pit. This produced clouds of toxic smoke and destroyed eventually stops, no new hair grows in its place. all the cables, resulting in no phone service for many in the area.