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From Monday 16 July, resi- encourage residents to sup- get out and about, and residents out and about dents of Cessnock City will port more local businesses. excited about what our re- supporting local businesses. be invited to collect their The Guide is a useful annual gion has to offer. “The Guide offers locals Resident’s Buy Local Guide. publication which offers Cessnock City Council’s everything you need – things This special magazine is part fantastic deals and local Economic Development to do during the school of a new ‘Buy Local’ discounts on everything Manager, Jane Holdsworth holidays, arts and craft campaign developed by from dining out, to furniture said it was really exciting to classes, keeping active, Cessnock City Council sales, to hairdressing and be able to launch the new markets and event dates, self under the Advance Cessnock everything in between. It free 64 page magazine and -guided bush walking trails City partnership, in order to also encourages residents to hopes to see more and more and a comprehensive busi- ness directory,” said Jane. “We need to reinforce the importance of shopping local and this is the perfect way to do it. We are helping people to choose local businesses first, keeping dollars in our community and assisting family businesses to grow,” added Jane Cessnock City Mayor, Councillor Bob Pynsent said this was a wonderful magazine that every receive flyers from their real 65/67 Vincent St, Cessnock Rhiannon Stevens 4993 estate agents. All household Kurri Kurri Library - Corner 4185. Offering cosmetic/anti wrinkle therapy household will benefit from and keep handy in their top residents in Cessnock City Lang & Allworth Streets, ■ Photo (L-R): Rhiannon Stevens; Cessnock City Council’s Economic drawer. are welcome to collect their Kurri Kurri magazine or follow the * R&W Real Estate, Development Officer, Kayla “Knowing where to find a Perkins and Zoe McDougall; The reliable local plumber, instructions on the flyer to Branxton - 66/68 Maitland download a copy online. St, Branxton Happy Tooth, Robert Brewster; gaining some inspiration for East Coast Supplements, There are a number of Residents can also where to take visitors or James Harvey; Sternbeck’s Real finding out what events are collection points:- download their copy of the Estate, James Jarvis; AMP Online appointments available coming up. These are all * Cessnock City Council magazine online from Vintage Wealth, Geoff Walker; helpful bits of information Administration Building – advancecessnock- Hunter Valley Visitor Information through health engine for a resident to have on 62-78 Vincent Street, Cess- city.com.au/buylocal. Centre, Eric Stanley; Financial hand,” said Cr Pynsent. nock Simply enter your details, Feedback, Cessnock City Mayor Home owning households * Hunter Valley Visitor and the access key Councillor Bob Pynsent, Rose Beverley; Leisure Inn, Dayne can redeem their magazine Information Centre - 455 BUYLOCAL18. Wine Country Drive, Pokol- For more information on the Poole; Hunter Area Plumbing, with a collection slip found Jane Holdsworth; Cessnock City in their July rates notice, bin project, call Jane * Cessnock City Library - Holdsworth on 4993 4257 or Council’s Economic Development whereas rental tenants will Manager.

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Cessnock City Miller Park Sports Club is proud Council is ‘going live’ with the NSW Government’s Easy to do Business program. to announce a new partnership is taking over the Restaurant and Mr MacDonald said the decision by Council to join the program paves the way for an catering facilities. This new expanded foodie industry and café culture in the local area. partnership is Casey Parsons and “Starting up a hospitality business used to mean completing up to 48 forms, talking to local girl, Megan Ayscough. 13 government agencies, and waiting up to 18 months,” Mr MacDonald said. The Chef “With Easy to do Business, local entrepreneurs can now complete one online form, call Casey started his cooking career with the Point Res- one phone number and open a café, restaurant or small bar in 90 days or less. taurant in Port Stephens. With passion and commit- “New cafés, restaurants and small bars will create jobs, bring vibrancy to our streets, and ment, Casey won Apprentice of the Year which lead foster a lively night time culture - I’m delighted that Council has gone live with this great him to work at the coveted Emirates Wolgan Valley program.” Luxury Resort in the Blue Mountains. This resort and restaurant is rated 5 stars on Trip Advisor, Trivago Cessnock City Council Mayor Bob Pynsent said the Easy to do Business program is a great win for Cessnock, creating opportunities and all other traveller review sites. for the region’s economy and culture to thrive. On Casey’s return to the Hunter Valley he took up a “Opening your own business is a big decision and it’s fantastic to be part of a program position on the opening team of EXP. Restaurant that will take some of that pressure off,” Mr Pynsent said. (another 5 star restaurant) and went on to become the "We support small business and look forward to supporting delivery of the Easy to do Executive Chef and Hotel Manager of Restaurant 221 Business initiative.” at Cessnock (rated 4.5 stars) Deputy Premier and Minister for Small Business John After hard work and dedication, Casey and Megan Barilaro congratulated Cessnock City Council for getting on purchased their first business together; Simply D’vine board with the Easy to Do Business program. Café at the Nulkaba Nursery. They have, since taking over the business, increased it’s rating to 4.5 stars for “As a former small business owner, I know how important it is to service, food and value (as per Trip Advisor). do everything we can to make it easier for businesses to start up, They have now decided to open their very own Simply operate and employ people and Easy to Do Business is a fantastic D’vine Restaurant at Miller Park Sports Club. opportunity for local entrepreneurs,” Mr Barilaro said. Simply D’vine Restaurant is proud to be partnering Businesses wanting to start up a café, restaurant or small bar can apply at with Miller Park Sports Club. https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/easy-do-business or phone They bring years of hospitality experience and 13 77 88. knowledge with them. Together they will create something special for the town and its surrounding suburbs. Please do yourself and your family a favour and visit FACS Scholarships awarded Miller Park Sports Club to enjoy not only the quality A $1000 cash boost will help hundreds of Parliamentary Secretary for the Hunter Scot vices (FACS) Scholarship Program for 2018 and food but also great service. Whether its lunch, dinner vulnerable young people pursue their MacDonald MLC & the Member for Cessnock thanked all those who had applied. or a special occasion you will not be disappointed. educational goals, with the NSW Government Clayton Barr MP have welcomed the “With 250 scholarships awarded in 2017, I am Group bookings welcome. announcing the successful recipients of the 2018 announcement and said that 34 students from delighted that this year we have been able to They together have great ideas and views for the res- FACS Scholarship Program. across the Hunter would benefit greatly from help even more students across the state with taurant within the club and look forward to sharing the The Scholarship program, which allows students the funding. financial assistance,” Ms Goward said. new venture with all the guests. There will be a NEW to receive financial assistance from Year 10 up “This money will help students in our area in To be eligible to apply for the grants, students MENU that will continuously evolve, yet always carry until they complete their tertiary education, many practical ways; it may be as simple as must be either living in social housing (public, the classics. The new restaurant will be opening on the provides $1,000 that can be spent on items to paying for the internet or buying new textbooks community or Aboriginal housing); on the NSW 8th of August, Wednesday to Sunday for lunch and support a student’s education including text but it all counts in enabling a vulnerable young Housing Register; receiving private rental dinner. Stay tuned for all the exciting things the couple books, computers and private tutoring. person reach their potential,” Mr MacDonald assistance; living in crisis or supported have planned. said. accommodation or living in out of home care. “We want the best for young people and we Further information on the FACS Scholarship know a good education is one of the keys to a Program can be found here: successful start in life.” The Minister for Social Housing Pru Goward congratulated the 400 new and continuing https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/support- recipients of the Family and Community Ser- programs/all-families/facs-scholarships

A marriage proposal around the Moon for 145 million dollars Starting in 2022 it will be possible to ask for the beloved’s hand in marriage while flying over the lunar surface to the sound of Frank Sinatra’s "Fly Me to the Moon". The one-week interplanetary flight will be carried out using a self-contained and autonomous spacecraft allowing the two lovers to travel alone. The ApoteoSurprise agency, a French marriage proposal planner specialized in creating extravagant proposals, introduces a whole new service for 145 million dollars which will allow 21st century handsome princes to propose while flying around the Moon. Reaching for the Moon in the name of love is about to become a reality, the ultimate goal of the Paris-based agency being to “stage the craziest and most outstanding marriage proposal of the last 13.8 billion years“. From March 2022, elite lovers will be able to book the all-included service on the site www.proposeinparis.com and five months later find themselves enjoying the following program: - Twelve weeks of pre-requisite technical and physical training. - Takeoff on D-Day from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida. - Richard Strauss's "Thus spoke Zarathustra, Op.30" (Theme from 2001 Space Odyssey) resounding in the two space tourists' helmets when the first effects of weightlessness are felt. - Arrival in lunar orbit, three days later, flying over the satellite’s grayish surface at only 200/300 kilometres altitude. - Cut-off of all communication with Earth for around thirty minutes while the capsule flies over the dark side of the Moon. - The Frank Sinatra song "Fly Me to the Moon" played halfway through the orbital flight, allowing the suitor to make his marriage proposal far from any form of human life (engagement ring secretly hidden in his spacesuit). - A spectacular Earth-rise seen from behind the lunar craters and return trip of nearly four days before atmospheric re-entry and final touchdown. The flight-plan followed by the space capsule will mirror that of the mythical Apollo 8 mission in 1968. The spacecraft, travelling at a speed of up to 38,000 km/h, will be equipped with eight cameras allowing the couple to immortalize their entry into the history of the conquest of space and the conquest… of love! Mayoral Minute calls for more information about dwelling entitlements for small rural lots Mayor of Singleton, Cr Sue strategic planning approved on small rural A sunset clause was amendment to the LEP to action moving forward, Moore has used a Mayoral implications and process land lots under 40ha in size in place for 12 months reintroduce dwelling including whether to take Minute to call for a report should Council pursue the and which were created following the implementa- entitlement provisions. up the matter with the NSW on the number of properties State Government to before 7 January 1966. tion of the LEP in “It will be beneficial for Department of Planning. affected by the loss of a reintroduce dwelling A dwelling entitlement for September 2013 to allow everyone involved to know “I empathise with people in dwelling entitlement under entitlement provisions. small rural lots did exist approval for a dwelling on how many properties are our community who may be the Singleton Local The issue was raised under the previous LEP existing small rural lots. affected by this clause, and in the situation where they Environmental Plan 2013 recently when the owner of 2006 and Council proposed Cr Moore said in addition the process for Council to are unable to build their (LEP). a small residential lot that the entitlement to tonight’s Mayoral approach the NSW forever home because of The Mayoral Minute to last lodged a development continue when drafting for Minute, she had also raised Department of Planning to this clause led by the NSW night’s ordinary Council application for a dwelling. the new LEP (Singleton the issue directly with amend the LEP,” she said. Department of Planning, meeting also asked that the Clause 4.2A (3) (part a, b, LEP 2013) began in 2010. Upper Hunter MP Michael “A report will be presented and assure them we are report clarify the loss of c, d) in the Singleton LEP However, the NSW Johnsen about whether the to Council’s August investigating all the ave- dwelling entitlement when 2013, endorsed by the State Department of Planning and State Government, through meeting when we will be nues available to us to find Sue Moore, Mayor Singleton an existing house was Government, states a Environment did not the NSW Department of better informed to make a a solution.” Council demolished, and discuss dwelling house must not be support this position. Planning, would support an decision about a course of

Direct flights to & from Auckland a great opportunity to Author event with Ben Doherty at boost tourism Cessnock Library Virgin Australia and Newcastle Airport announced Cessnock City Library is proud to last week direct international flights between present a free author event with former Newcastle and Auckland, opening up a range of foreign correspondent and now travel and tourism opportunities for the Hunter journalist for The Guardian, Ben region. Doherty from 11am-12pm on Thursday 2 August. Virgin Australia will operate three return services per Ben launched into the literary world week during the peak holiday period from 22 with his enthralling debut novel, November 2018 to 17 February 2019, providing Nagaland, which is set in the far 13,000 additional seats. New Zealand is a key market north-east of India. that the Hunter Valley Wine & Tourism Association Nagaland is an extraordinarily powerful will target for leisure tourism and business events in and evocative literary work that 2018/19. As part of our strategic partnership with traverses new ground in the hinterland Newcastle Airport, the Hunter Valley Wine & between biography and mythology. Tourism Association will seek out marketing activities Library Services Co-ordinator, Rose- to leverage this fantastic opportunity and to drive marie Walters said this is a fascinating overnight visitation to the Hunter Valley, working event that is not to be missed. with the Airport, Virgin Australia and industry “Ben is a three-time Walkley award winner for his foreign and immigration reporting stakeholders. The Hunter Valley Wine & Tourism and this event is a great opportunity to hear about his journey from journalist to Association congratulates Newcastle Airport’s CEO novelist and the adventures in-between,” said Rose-marie. Peter Cock (pictured) and his team for their dedication This event is free to come along, but bookings are essential. Don’t miss out. Book in striving to become a second international gateway your spot today by calling the team at Cessnock Library on 4993 4399. Signed cop- into NSW and recognises the significant contribution ies of Nagaland this will have for our local economy. will also be

available for ■ Pictured at right: Jo Thomas, GM Hunter Valley Wine & Tourism sale at the event Association and right Peter Cock, CEO Newcastle Airport. at a cost of $25. Author event with Jeremy Scott at Cessnock Library Cessnock City Library is proud to present a free event with Jeremy Scott, who is the inspirational author of The Long Road From A Broken Heart from 10:30 to 11.30am on Thursday 26 July. As a toddler, Jeremy suffered from a huge hole in his aorta valve that cruelly denied him the opportunity to live the life of a normal healthy child. At just four years of age Jeremy underwent open heart surgery. Thirty four years later with practically no experience or train- ing, Jeremy took the unbelievably courageous plunge and began a two and a half year, 51,916km bicycle ride that would see him cycle through 29 countries from London to New Zealand. Jeremy is a recipient of the Australian Open Heart Foundation ‘Heart Hero Award’ and his incredible story highlights what anyone can achieve in life, if they are willing to take that first step. Library Services Co-ordinator, Rose-marie Walters said that this will be an inspirational talk and anyone who loves a good biography should come along and hear this amazing true story. "Jeremy's story about the beautiful side of humanity is an example of what someone can achieve if they believe in themselves and have the courage to chase their dreams." This author talk is for everyone so make sure you don’t miss this inspiring event! Book your spot today by calling the team at Cessnock Library on 4993 4399.

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In the last issue of The and greater turnover in News our local Federal small business is balanced Member, Joel, banged on against the lucky few who about penalty rates. During have jobs that attract his address to the ACTU penalty rates. congress this week Bill This is the tactic of envy Shorten banged on about and divisionism that the penalty rates. Labor Party have practised These socialist do not get for years. It is in their it. DNA. They cannot help Penalty rates are a tax on themselves. It was born employment opportunities out of the origins of the for our young people, a Labor movement in the burden on small business 19th Century when work and a threat to the Hunter conditions were, as Valley tourist potential. Charles Dickens described People in Sydney will not them, virtual indentured drive to the Hunter if they slavery. are going to be ripped off Well just look around you for a cup of coffee and a folks. The standard of cheese toasty. living and the opportuni- The Labor Party is pushing ties for work, enterprise this as a bribe to voters and the improvement of because in years gone-by the general population’s the weekend was knowledge and sacrosanct time; a part of understanding have never the week for worship and been greater. sport. The only threat to this Well here is news for the situation is the stupidity of Cro-Magnon recidivist in the left and the Greens the Labor Party. No day of with their NO Coal crap the week is special any- and the dumbing down of more ~ we can worship education. educated it becomes more Old news but just to finding out if they have or Harry founded in 2014. patron for the project), whenever we want, sport is Since we have advanced and more difficult to remind you that ‘The have not accepted the Branxton -Greta Memorial Minister for Veterans played every day of the so far from the 19th frighten the people, despite Branxton-Greta respective invitations by the Cycleway Limited Affairs David Elliott, and week and the price of Century the union the fact they are aided and Memorial Cycleway end of next week. chairman Brett Wild said the Invictus Games. service should be the same movement is basically a abetted by the ABC and project’ & Maitland The newlywed royal the cycleway project – “It ticks all the boxes & it on any day of the week or ‘Rebel without a Cause’. the lefty press. councillors, have invited couple will be Sydney from which will pay tribute to would be an amazing boost year - including Christmas To justify their existence So people, think about the Duke and Duchess of October 20 to 27 for the the twin towns’ World War for our small country town Day, Good Friday, Anzac they must continually what is being touted as the Sussex to their LGA while Invictus Games, a I servicemen – was – it would be huge for the Day and Australia Day. foster division within the high moral ground and they are in Australia for multi-sport event for strongly aligned with the entire Hunter Valley,” said Pushing the line that country and create bogey correct thinking. the Invictus Games in late wounded, ill or injured games’ values, and would Brett. workers will be worse off men to frighten the There is no high ground October. armed forces personnel and be a meaningful event for The last official Royal visit without penalty rates is proletariat. and we must think for It appears we will be veterans, which Prince the Duke and Duchess to to the Hunter was in March nonsense when the As the proletariat becomes ourselves. attend. 1983 when Prince Charles common good of extra jobs better informed and Cheers, Steve “When we where informed & Lady Diana visited of his attendance at the Maitland passing thousands Games we immediately of people as they walked sent the invitation to the down High Street before Palace which was leaving their names & immediately responded to comment in the visitors in a very positive book; “Charlie and Di, fashion,” said Brett. Buckingham Palace, The invitations were sent to London England - & other matters Buckingham Palace via the “Maitland’s a curious and offices of Governor of charming town. Long may NSW David Hurley AC, she prosper!” with Mike Lowing DSC, FTSE (who is a If the Duke and Duchess of Sussex do accept the ognises the special work has been done on a can we put drought policy government to act on a invitation to Branxton/ circumstances of farmers; new agreement. back on track. Drought can changing climate if it Greta we will need an 4. Ensure that social sup- Farmers on Farm no longer be viewed as an doesn’t believe the climate official visitors book &, no port services are accessible Household Support “abnormal event”. The is changing. TIME TO PUT DROUGHT Exceptional Circumstance doubt, a gold shovel for the to farm families; and, (unemployment benefit for focus for policy makers and Drought-affected Hunter POLICY BACK ON TRACK (EC) declarations and turning of the first sod on 5. Provide a framework farmers) are near the end of farm leadership groups farmers would welcome The Prime Minister did a related drought assistance the Memorial Cycleway for jurisdictions’ responses a three-year period of must be helping farmers that recognition as an drought tour in late May but programs did “not help project. during periods of drought. assistance. What will build resilience. Tax important first step. the Hunter was not on his farmers improve their self- Here’s hoping! Clause 17 of the drought-affected farmers do concessions for drought Joel Fitzgibbon MP itinerary. reliance, preparedness and Cheers, Mike agreement states: parties now? The Turnbull proofing will no doubt Member for Hunter On May 3, 2013, the climate change manage- will report against their government says they remain part of the Commonwealth and the ment”. It concluded: “the roles and responsibilities in should apply for a plan. So too will states and territories entered EC declaration process is this agreement and their concessional loan. But income support. Emergency Phone Numbers into a new COAG agree- inequitable and unneces- implementation plans more debt is simply not an The foundation for Police Electricity ment on drought policy. sary”. State and territory annually during the option for most. any drought policy Dial 000 Energy The Intergovernmental governments agreed a new FOR FIRE, POLICE AND Branxton…. 4938 1244 Australia….... 131 388 operation of the agreement. To be fair, the government must be adaptation AMBULANCE ANY TIME, DAY OR Lochinvar… 4930 7209 Hospitals Agreement on National NIGHT FOR 24-HOUR SERVICE approach was needed. Five Ambulance… 131 233 Maitland… 4939 2000 It’s a free call. 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Only then can’t expect a 0418 628 483 The PC argued that former (Cessnock)… 4015 0000 support payment that rec- THE NEWS Issue 481 25 July 2018 * page 5 2018/19 waste vouchers have landed Recovering From Colds and The 2018/19 waste vouchers for the Cessnock Waste Management Flu Centre have been distributed to With Belinda Doe of Wise Deer Natural Health residents in the July rates notice and there is an important change to A cold or flu occurs when your body note. becomes infected with a virus. Cessnock City Council would like Unfortunately, there aren’t any medica- to advise that the 2018/19 tions that can cure this, and it’s usually vouchers include a property a matter of letting the illness run its address and residents are now course. Here are some natural things required to show a proof of address you can do to help your body fight the to match the one listed on the infection and reduce your symptoms. voucher. Dietary tips Council’s Environment and Waste When your body is fighting off illness it Manager, Michael Alexander said, requires more nutrients than usual. “This change is about process Eat light, easily digested meals improvement and to ensure reports (e.g. broths, soups), as digestive capacity is often reduced on the Centre’s use are accurate Avoid mucus-forming foods such as dairy, wheat, and processed foods each year.” Avoid immune-suppressing foods such as processed foods, sugar, alcohol, and Each household that pays the caffeine Domestic Waste Management Take Vitamin C and regularly suck on Zinc lozenges at the first sign of a cold, as Charge (DWMC) will receive four vouchers attached to their July rates notice and renters should speak to their this has been shown to reduce its severity and duration property manager about collection of these vouchers. Each voucher entitles residents to dispose of up to 500kg of Increase fluids (water, diluted vegetable juice, broths, herbal teas) waste. Anything over this amount will need to be paid Herbal tips for by cash or card, or the use of multiple vouchers. You should have some pretty effective herbs just lying around your kitchen. Try a tea of Residents are also reminded that vouchers are not thinly sliced ginger root with honey (raw or manuka), cinnamon, and lemon juice. Add transferrable or permitted to be sold. If this happens, it fresh chilli, onion juice, and garlic for added benefits. Herbal teas containing will result in the voucher(s) being voided. elderflower, peppermint or echinacea are also wonderful for their warming and immune Households that are out of the waste management stimulating properties. service area and do not receive vouchers can purchase Lifestyle tips alternate service vouchers. These are sold at a discounted The key to recovering from illness is rest. Other important factors are: rate compared to the gate fees at the site. Sleep For more information about waste vouchers or the Stress reduction Cessnock Waste Management Centre, visit Fresh air Husband Creche www.cessnock.nsw.gov.au/wastecentre or call Sunlight Is he getting under your feet 4993 4100. Sweating (to encourage elimination of toxins) – use warm clothes, warm baths, and Is he moaning about shopping warming herbal teas Would your morning be stress free without him Approval in principle paves the Essential oils may aid breathing and prevent further infection. Try eucalyptus, Ladies we have the answer closure of Wallaby Scrub Road clove, lavender, oregano, peppermint, rosemary, or tea tree. The Branxton Greta Menshed is organising a Good hygiene (viruses can survive for several hours on hands, tissues, hard sur- husband crèche every Wednesday and Friday Singleton Council will act meeting during public faces, etc.). The mechanical action of washing your hands physically removes the mornings. to formalise the closure of access. virus particles; antibacterial soaps do not kill viruses. Drop him off at our husband crèche. Wallaby Scrub Road after A report presented to the www.wisedeernaturalhealth.com We’ll take good care of him and he may even receiving approval in meeting also included a Cheers, Belinda learn something principle from the synopsis of 1,639 Just pay $2.00 for his morning coffee Department of Industry. submissions as the result of ‘Branxton Greta Menshed’ 49 Branxton Street’ The approval relates to the a public exhibition period. Greta in the grounds of the old closure of 5.99km of General Manager Jason St Marys Primary School Wallaby Scrub Road from Linnane said Council was the intersection of Putty notifying objectors about Road, but excludes a the decision this week. portion of Crown road “This is a matter that adjoining the road corridor. attracted significant The closure is also community interest and conditional that the land is Council appreciates the sold to adjoining landhold- input from everyone who ers Warkworth Mining made a submission during Limited and Miller Pohang the public exhibition period Coal Company Pty Limited. last year,” he said. The portion of Crown land “Council’s role was to will be subject to an consider the merits of the closure, with future reports Signs to be placed at key the road will allow Council application to Crown Lands road closure based on its to be prepared for Councils locations several weeks to sell the road corridor, by the mine to acquire. role as a roads authority consideration regarding the before the road is closed to which would involve a Council resolved to proceed and did not include sale of the Wallaby Scrub inform drivers. valuation and negotiation with the application to the consideration of matters Road corridor.” Mr Linnane said Council process,” he said. Minister for Lands and relating to mining Arrangements are being would negotiate with the “Proceeds from the sale of Forestry to close the road at approvals. made to implement the adjoining landholders in the land will be re-invested an extraordinary meeting in “As a result of the approval Wallaby Scrub Road relation to the sale of the in the local road network in August last year, after in principle, Council will Closure Plan, which land. accordance with the Roads hearing from a number of now act to continue the includes Variable Message “Formalising the closure of Act, 1993.” speakers who addressed the formalisation of the road We are proud to announce that Wollombi Road Providore are Finalists in Customer Service category judged by the Sydney Fresh Food Markets. The judging is conducted by secret shoppers, we are the first finalists outside of Sydney…. The winners are announced in late July.

Follow us on Facebook and Instagram [email protected] Contact use for orders & enquiries 80 Wollombi Road, Cessnock 49902468 THE NEWS | No. 481 | WEDNESDAY | 25 July 2018 ͽ 6 Members say …. days of just digging a whole if the State Government is by 2021. When Mr and burying it, waste serious about tackling O’Farrell won the election export and import status, because it marked the start management is the name of waste, it needs to return the in 2011, the previous 160 ICT take up, and also of an exciting project to the game. full waste levy back to years of NSW Governments identify opportunities and reimagine the future of the RECYCLING CRISIS communities so they can debt amounted to $22B. In barriers to doing business or historic village. Keeping with the rubbish better manage this serious just 10 years, the State driving investment within The Voluntary Planning theme, I moved a motion at issue. borrowings (debt) will have the region. The Study will Agreement was signed our recent meeting regarding Cheers, Melanie more than doubled. That’s nicely complement the between Council and the Waste Levy and pushing not zero debt! We pay $30,000 Skills Audit and Yancoal in December 2017, for it to be handed back to $50M per week in interest Business Jobs Portal to potentially deliver $11 local government to allow on our debt. That’s not zero currently being million to the Singleton us to invest in innovation, debt! implemented which was community over the next 15 research and development in The Government won’t also made possible with years. That includes $6.6 an attempt to solve the challenge me on this Clr Melanie Dagg ~ Cessnock recycling crisis that councils because they know that it is successful funding under million for a Bulga City Councillor - Ward C the BBRF in 2017. Community Project Fund to are currently grappling with. true, that I am telling the Have you picked up your support the sustainability of WASTE VOUCHERS China’s newly introduction truth. If you are so inclined, copy of the Residents Buy Bulga and surrounds. Residents will already be National Sword Policy has check online for the 2018/19 Bob Pynsent, Mayor Cessnock Local Guide yet? The Guide Comprising representatives receiving their waste real implications on how Budget Papers and go to City Council is a useful annual from the community, vouchers in the mail and councils manage the waste Budget Paper 1, Table D2 of noticing they look slightly we collect from the page D-3. Despite the fact publication which offers Council and Yancoal, the Member for Cessnock The HSC is fast approaching fantastic deals and local committee is a sunset different. The 2018/19 community, with our only Clayton Barr MP that I am a politician, please which can be a stressful time discounts on everything committee of Council that vouchers include a barcode, practical options at the believe me. which is linked to the moment, being to stockpile Raising the BARR for many young people. In from dining out, to furniture will assist in engaging with For enquiries regarding the property address. or return it to landfill. After an effort to help develop sales, to hairdressing and the community to implement I’M A POLITICIAN – State Government or its There has been a lot of decades spent educating the strategies to cope with the everything in between. It the VPA. PLEASE BELIEVE ME departments, or to put you feedback from the public about the importance pressure of HSC exams, also encourages residents to The first challenge for the The credibility of politicians in contact with someone community around the of recycling, neither option Cessnock City Library is get out and about, support committee is to recommend is at an all-time low – I am who can, please contact my barcode and whilst all feed- is palatable and there is a hosting a free workshop for local business and excited a list of principles for the not too stupid to not office. My office can be back is welcome, there has real possibility that if we local students from 4.30 to about what our region has to prioritisation of projects that understand that. I see the contacted by phoning been some misinformation don’t act now, we will lose 6.30pm tomorrow. The offer. Home owning will build sustainability and facts and the truths as they 4991-1466, by email to flying around. The the gains already made in workshop will be hosted by residents can redeem their enhance the quality of life happen and as they are [email protected] introduction of the barcode the fight against waste. writing expert, Keith copy with the collection slip for the people of Bulga and written in documents like or call into 118 Vincent is designed to allow better As shown above, you the Whelan who has been a found in their July rates Milbrodale. The community the Budget. Then I see the Street (PO Box 242), tracking of waste and reduce ratepayer, paid millions of writer for the past 20 years. notice and rental tenants can have input into the language that is used to spin Cessnock 2325. the misuse of the voucher dollars to the State The workshop will cover will receive flyers from projects via their community the message; and I see the You also follow me on my system. This normally Government via the waste what works and what their real estate agents. representatives. spin that is put on the truth Facebook page occurs through residents levy that councils are forced doesn’t, planning writing There are several collection That will then lay the by the various media “www.facebook.com/ selling vouchers or the use collect on their behalf. In the schedules for each exam, points including Council’s foundation for a works outlets; and then the claytonbarrmp”, go to by businesses for 2016/17 financial year the time management, using key Admin Building, Cessnock program to guide the language of social media Twitter and search commercial gain. Any profit Government collected $656 words, and practical ways to and Kurri Kurri Libraries, projects on the ground in which ranges from accurate @claytonbarrmp or check made from their inappropri- million in waste levies and write under pressure. I Hunter Valley and Kurri accordance with the to absurd. out my website at ate use, from illegal in 2017/18 they collected encourage students studying Kurri Visitor Information community’s desires. So who should you believe? www.claytonbarr.com.au dumping or other criminal $373 million. Only 18% of for the HSC to book in and Centres, R&W Real Estate There’s a lot of planning to This is possibly my most Cheers, Clayton behaviour, is subsidised by that $1 billion has been take advantage of this Branxton and Wollombi do first, but it’s important difficult job on a day to day you the ratepayer. returned to local wonderful opportunity. Real Estate. that we get the right projects basis. At every meeting in Residents can continue to communities to for waste I attended the opening of the Cessnock City Libraries are with the right amount of the community, with every dispose of waste with a reduction and management. NAIDOC Art Trail which is always looking for ways to funding, and that we do the conversation that I have, I voucher from another house- The State Government has an exciting new inclusion on improve their service and proper design work and see all types of variations of hold (i.e. for their elderly announced a rescue package our annual NAIDOC Week have developed an online consultation with the the truth and the lies that family member or neighbour of $47 million to help program and has a strong survey to get your feedback community before we rush have been spun. More often that isn’t able to do it consumers, councils and the focus on women as the about what you love and into construction. than not, I won’t try to themselves), as can tenants waste industry cope with the theme this year is ‘Because what you’d like to see I have no doubt this will be change a person’s mind or who receive a voucher from recycling crisis. But this of her, we can’. It was so happen in our local a very positive committee tell them a different version their landlord but don’t have isn’t new money, it is wonderful to see how the libraries. Your feedback and and we will see a lot of good of the same issue, because I a rates notice. re-gifted from the 18% local students have suggestions will be things come out of this proc- am a politician and I am This can be achieved by already allocated to tackle portrayed this theme through considered for future ess for the benefit not only probably the least likely to MICHAEL JOHNSEN MP providing a proof of address the problem. In the last Member for Upper Hunter their art by showing how planning of our library of Bulga and surrounds, but be believed. which matches the voucher. financial year, Cessnock local Aboriginal women service and I encourage you everyone across our LGA. There are so many Proof can include a rates alone paid almost $8 million have inspired them in their to fill one out before it What will also benefit examples of smoke and $9 MILLION TO SAVE notice, a drivers licence or a dollars in Waste Levy, with own lives. The Art Trail is a closes on Tuesday 31 July. everyone in our LGA is the mirrors along the way. Let THREATENED SPECIES utility account verifying it’s only $218,000 being partnership between Kiray Simply ongoing conversation about me give you this one small The NSW Government has on behalf of a ratepayer. returned. This is unaccept- Putjung Aboriginal visit www.surveymonkey.c improvements to public example: the State put $9 million on the table The transfer of vouchers to a able, given the Corporation, Cessnock om/r/CessnockCityLibrary transport. I’m joining Government recently to deliver more local commercial business for circumstances of the current Regional Art Gallery, to complete the survey members of Two More announced a Budget surplus projects to save threatened delivery on a customer’s crisis! Cessnock City Council, online or call into Cessnock Trains for Singleton today of $3.9B and were species, and I would behalf will not be accepted Despite the doom and CYCOS, Kurri Kurri & or Kurri Kurri Libraries to (Wednesday) to meet with congratulated for their encourage the Upper Hunter by Council officers. Council gloom, this could be a great Cessnock Libraries and complete a paper copy. senior representatives from financial management, but electorate community to is aware of misuse of opportunity for local Hunter Valley Visitor Cheers, Bob Transport for NSW right what they didn’t tell people apply for grants to help save vouchers by these government to adapt, Information Centre and you here in Singleton, to discuss is that to get the surplus threatened native wild life. businesses, bringing in a innovate and improve the can view the artworks at the need for more services. they are borrowing $10.5B. Saving threatened species substantial amount of system to allow us to be a each of these locations. It’s no secret our community The $10.5B borrowings, can be as simple as planting additional commercial waste circular economy. Our Along the way, you’ll rates more public transport, which prove that more native vegetation, weed through these types of neighbours at Lake Mac discover artworks by and particularly rail money will be spent than is programs or research transactions, with the have already begun this on a inspirational women services, as one of our major available, were lost on projects that involved people financial burden being worn small scale, with the reuse including Lesley Salem, issues. There have been every media report of the of all ages keeping a record by you the resident. of recycled glass as road Saretta Fielding, Tamika numerous meetings with the Budget. The surplus is not of a specific bird or animal. It may be frustrating that base, but there is more to do. Elvin and Aunty Cynthia Minister for Transport actually real – it is a Under the program individ- people can’t use the With the connectivity of the and by local students Andrew Constance both in Clayton’s surplus. ual grants of up to $350,000 vouchers to dump whatever Hunter Expressway, our involved in Aboriginal Singleton and in Sydney. I Here is another example of are available for projects they want, even if it’s not LGA is uniquely placed to Education Teams. appreciate he is taking this the smoke and mirrors; the that will run for 7 years and residential waste and its not take full advantage of the Wonnarua artists are also in matter very seriously and Government tells everyone will require a contribution from the LGA – its all opportunities coming out of the spotlight! The Art Trail look forward to the that they have zero debt. from the successful rubbish, right? Wrong! this crisis. With the support is open until 12 August and outcomes that I’m confident The poorly informed media organization including local The problem is, Council has of the State Government, I encourage everyone to will eventuate. outlets, stripped of their community groups, business Sue Moore, Mayor Singleton to pay a levy ($138.20 per and in partnership with the check it out. Cheers, Sue staff and resources, simply and councils. Council tonne) to the State other Hunter Councils, we I was delighted to hear the repeat it over and over. Joe All applicants are strongly Government for every tonne could create a regional news that Cessnock City and Jane Citizen end up encouraged to develop and of waste that goes over the processing facility, which Council was allocated With all the change in the Members repeating the line deliver projects with other weighbridge. This ultimately turns recycled matter into $15,000 towards a $30,000 Singleton Town Centre over themselves. collaborating partners. has an impact on waste reusable product. In an area Business Capability Study the past few years – and The Treasurer is clever Applications are currently say …. charges for the subsequent such as ours where we have under the Australian fingers crossed for more to enough to say zero net debt. open and close on the 13 ..... is proudly financial year, with the seen the decline of mining Government’s Building come – the groundwork is The word “net” is crucial to August 2018. More potential to artificially and heavy industry, it would Better Regions Fund now underway for the sponsored by..... the truth, but would be lost information: http:// inflate prices if the waste is be a welcome boost to em- (BBRF). This is a welcome transformation of the village on most. Most other MP’s, www.environment.nsw.gov. not managed and disposed ployment and the economy. funding boost that will go a of Bulga. even the Premier are guilty au/grants/saving-our-species The of correctly. Innovation is difficult with- long way to helping local I was really happy to chair of saying zero debt, without -contestable-grants-program The vouchers aren’t merely out adequate investment and businesses. The Study will the inaugural meeting of the Branxton Greta using the word net. The -2018.htm an entitlement, they are an it is important we work in determine how many Mount Thorley Warkworth Vineyards News truth is that the State Contact: My Email address; important step to ensuring partnership with [email protected], businesses operate within Voluntary Planning currently has borrowed a the appropriate management Government and the private phone numbers; 6543 1065, our region, their size, Agreement Community total of $34.38B of debt. of our waste. Gone are the sector. 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0428 684 114 Phone: 0487756170 P: 4938 1773 THE NEWS | No. 481 | WEDNESDAY | 25 July 2018 ͽ 8 Grandparents Day – 2018 photography competition

Microsoft Surface Pro F U N E R A L S E R V I C E S tablet. Paul and Janelle Smyth and their staff take great pride & personal satisfaction in The theme for the 2018 providing a dignified & timeless service, continuing a tradition started morere than than 90 competition is years ago on February 2, 1925 by Paul’s grandfather, Cecil R Smyth. ‘intergenerational’ and all entries need to bring this theme to life in some way. This could be through the focus of your image, it could be the way you play with ‘older’ and ‘younger’ in the colour scheme, it could be the subject matter or part of your caption – feel free to get creative! Serving Branxton, Greta & surrounds Judges love to see what the older people in your life and Talk to us about our Pre-paid Funeral community mean to you, whether it’s a portrait of Plans & Pre-Arrange Options. your superstar grandparent The competition is open to There are two categories: or an abstract image all residents of NSW, young Open: open to all depicting your stereotype- and old and celebrates older community defying neighbour. people and their members (NSW contributions, while residents). encouraging connections School: specifically for State Member for Electorate between generations. While school-aged entrants Entries close 5.00pm AEST

of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, it doesn’t matter whether in NSW, from on Friday 14 September MP, is encouraging you’re a beginner, an Kindergarten to 2018. For more information grandparents and enthusiast or a professional Year 12. about how to enter, simply diabetes and heart problems. These are the groups of grandchildren of all ages photographer, entrants All entries will judged by a visit https:// They are advising anyone viruses that we will see in to get involved in the under the age of 18 will panel who will select one www.grandparentsday.nsw. who is yet to have the the coming year. NSW Grandparents Day need permission from their winner from each category, gov.au/photo-comp vaccine to call ahead to their How does the vaccine dif- Photography Competition. parent or guardian to enter. who will be awarded a GP to ensure the correct fer this year? THE HUNTER VALLEY CONTINUES TO GROW IN DIVERSIFICATION formulation for their age is Aside from kids under five The launch of two new offerings in the Hunter Valley contributes to the diversity in stock before they attend being included in the free of the area offering locals and visitors new and exciting products to experience. for vaccination. program, two new Owners of the already established ‘The Woods Pokolbin’, Anne Marie and Ewen The NSW Government this “enhanced” vaccines have Cameron have recognised a developing market in elaborate engagements, year purchased vaccines for been created for people over generous elopements, micro-weddings. They identified a movement of couples children up to five years of 65 years old, a particularly simply recoiling and spoiling themselves and felt this market needed more attention. And age which they are at-risk group. so, emerged the concept of their newly built luxury accommodation Blackwood. An providing for free this year, Particularly in the elderly, intimate guesthouse that boasts opulence, seclusion and style. Couples travel in general has in addition to vaccines for the influenza vaccine was been a hot topic with recent studies showing that travel and shared experiences with loved all public health facility not as effective as we hoped ones is on the rise and becoming more and more favourable over material possessions. The Lee Grundy Pharmacist & staff. it would be. recent minimalist, more intimate wedding trend has also been identified and the property proprietor of NSW Health can confirm The real advantage of those can easily cater for. The owners have also appointed a passionate “Concierge” who will Branxton Pharmacy that the supply of vaccine two new vaccines for over assist with planning a luxury stay, from private yoga sessions on the jetty, to Helicopter for children six months to 65s is they will provide an flights being scheduled to land and take off onsite right through to marquee hire and Seasonal In- under three years of age is enhanced immune response catering arrangements for groups large and small. not affected, and due to and better protection for that Frank Fawkner, talented chef and owner of the highly regarded EXP restaurant has launched Fawk Foods Kitchen & Bakery. The bakery-come-café is offering up a daily fluenza Vacci- controls in place for the group of patients. They are serving of baked goods and delicious café meals in the heart of Pokolbin, seven days a vaccine for three and four the ones they are most nation 2018 with Jo Thomas, General week from 7am and is set to fill a gap in the local market for accessible high-quality food year old children, expect worried about protecting Update Manager HVWTA and drinks as well as fill the stomachs of hungry locals and Hunter Valley visitors alike. that supply will be sufficient and the ones where the With a focus on locally sourced products; foraged ingredients, local bacon, free range eggs There has been to meet demand. normal vaccines tend not to and Fawk Foods’ own popular black garlic range will be featured heavily throughout the menu. For those wanting unprecedented demand for Influenza case numbers work quite so well. to attempt the dishes at home, a brand-new range of Fawk Foods artisan products will also available be for purchase. Fawk influenza vaccine in continue to remain low in Can the vaccine really give Foods Kitchen & Bakery will become the only bakery in Hunter Valley Wine Country catering to wholesale and retail Australia in 2018. NSW NSW, however the start of you the flu? customers. To find out more visit winecountry.com.au Health has distributed the flu season is expected in No. It’s physically Cheers, Jo more than two million the coming weeks. impossible. doses of state and national For the past few years The flu vaccines that are program influenza Australia has had record- available in Australia are Roast beef with sweet roasted garlic vaccines, around half a breaking, fatal flu seasons. inactivated viruses. It is million more than in 2017. So this year a few changes impossible for the vaccine NSW Health is working have been made to the to cause an infection Drizzle 1 teaspoon oil over each bulb. closely with the vaccine to try and boost its because the viruses them- Step 3 Australian Department of protection abilities. selves are dead — they have Heat remaining oil in a frying pan over Health to manage the What am I being been killed. high heat. Add beef. Cook for 2 to 3 influenza vaccine supplies protected against? Then why do some people minutes each side or until browned. Place provided under the beef on top of vegetables. Season well The flu is different to the get sick after having a flu Full of flavour, this garlic-infused roast beef National Immunisation common cold — it’s more shot? with salt and pepper. Add remaining rosemary sprig to Program and they expect than just a runny nose. Getting “sick” or getting a is the perfect dish for the whole family! pan. Roast for 45 minutes to 50 minutes for medium or additional supplies of Symptoms include a dry cold is very different to Ingredients until cooked to your liking. Cover loosely with foil. some vaccines within the cough or one with phlegm, contracting full-blown 4 medium desiree potatoes, peeled, quartered Rest for 10 minutes. next few weeks. chills, a fever, body aches, influenza. 4 small parsnips, trimmed, peeled, halved lengthways Step 4 All vaccine supplies for congestion, swollen lymph The time of year when 600g kent pumpkin, cut into 4 wedges Slice beef. Serve with garlic, vegetables and gravy. adults under the National nodes and a sore throat. people are getting 2 fresh rosemary sprigs Immunisation Program The flu can become so bad vaccinated is often at the 1/3 cup olive oil Notes continue to be constrained 4 garlic bulbs, tops trimmed (see notes) it can leave you bedridden end of autumn and the start It's important to rest beef after roasting, to ensure the at this point. for days or even send you to of winter and there are lots 800g beef rump roast As a precaution, they are meat stays moist and tender. hospital. of bacteria and illnesses Gravy, to serve (see notes) Cook's note: Trim the top of each bulb about 1/3 of the restricting the quantities Several Australian adults circulating that can cause of vaccines they are Method way down, to expose the top of the garlic cloves. and children died last year similar symptoms. Step 1 To make gravy: Transfer beef, garlic and vegetables to distributing to GPs. from the flu and hundreds It’s probably one of these Place potato and parsnip in a large saucepan. Cover with a plate to rest. Cover with foil. Combine 2 cups beef Flu shots are available for were hospitalised. other viruses. They might cold water. Bring to the boil over high heat. Boil for 10 stock and 3/4 cup red wine in a jug. Skim fat from pan, free under the National The flu vaccine protects you think ‘this vaccine has minutes. Drain. leaving pan juices and 1 1/2 tablespoons fat in pan. Immunisation Program to from four strains of the caused me to become ill’, members of the Step 2 Place pan over high heat. Add 2 1/2 tablespoons plain influenza virus — two type but they have been hit by flour. Cook, stirring with a wooden spoon, for 1 to 2 community who are A viruses, called A/H1N1 another infection. Preheat oven to 220°C/200°C fan-forced. Place potato, pregnant, over 65 years of parsnip and pumpkin in a large roasting pan. Remove minutes or until mixture bubbles and becomes golden. and A/H3N2 and two type B It’s also important to note Slowly add stock mixture to pan, stirring constantly. age, are Aboriginal or influenza viruses, called B/ that it can take two weeks to leaves from 1 sprig rosemary. Sprinkle leaves over have medical conditions vegetables. Drizzle with 2 1/2 tablespoons oil. Season with Cook, scraping pan, for 8 to 10 Yamagata and B/Victoria. develop immunity after you minutes or until thickened. such as severe asthma, get the shot. salt and pepper. Toss to combine. Add garlic to pan.

Landholders urged to exercise caution before burning in current climate The NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) is urging land managers and landholders undertaking Report hazard reduction to School's back! Slow down to 40 when bus lights flash. carefully consider current weather conditions after violence over the past ten you should seek help. It is  developing solutions Boy critical after up to you." firefighters across the state years is seen by police and to managing repeat had to be called to contain house fire – other community agencies, Domestic and Family offenders Violence is a crime. and extinguish escaped as evidence of an increase Children in DV hazard reduction burns Singleton in community awareness It is well documented that It is not only adults who are domestic and family during the past week. Heights reinforcing that this form of affected by domestic violence is a significantly NSW RFS Commissioner Thursday, 19 July 2018 abusive behaviour must no violence. Children who under-reported crime and a Shane Fitzsimmons said 09:58:34 AM longer be seen as a 'private' live in homes where complex crime for police to hundreds of firefighters matter. It is recognised by domestic and family A five-year-old boy is in a provide an effective have attended a number of all sectors that abusive violence occurs are at risk escaped hazard reduction or pile burns in areas including the Bega Valley, Mid critical condition in behaviour towards a person response to. For many of harm and actual hospital after a house fire victims of domestic and North Coast, New England, Northern Rivers, Northern Tablelands, Wingecarribee in a relationship constitutes injury. Whether a child and Wollondilly. in Singleton Heights last 'criminal' behaviour and is family violence they do not witnesses domestic and Thursday. want to end their In the past fortnight, NSW RFS crews have been called to at least 142 reported punishable by law. family violence, is in escaped or illegal landowner burns across the state. About 8am today (Thursday NSW Police Force is relationships with their another room when an 19 July 2018), emergency abusive partners, they just “Given the dry and windy conditions are forecast to continue over many parts of the actively committed to assault occurs, or attempts state for the next few days, it is vital that landholders only light up when it is safe to services were called to improving our operational want the violence to to intervene to protect their Bridgeman Road, Singleton stop. Others require do so,” Commissioner Fitzsimmons said. response to this crime. We parent, the impact upon “We have also received many reports about people lighting up without providing Heights, following reports are also actively involved assistance from police and children exposed to of a house on fire. human services agencies to proper notifications and carelessly allowing burns to escape.” in providing improved violence in the home is Landholders who fail to notify firefighters and neighbours face fines of up to $5,500 Five occupants of the home, support and referral for assist them in leaving their serious. a woman, and four children violent relationships. and/or 12 months jail while escaped fires attract penalties of up to $110,000 and/or victims through Parents who stay in an five years prison. aged between three and 16 collaborative working Domestic and family abusive relationship with a escaped the blaze with violence involves an abuse “The dryness of the landscape and the lack of rain is worrying, especially when you relationships with a range perpetrator need to take into account the number of hazard reduction burns that had to be postponed minor injuries. of government and non- of power, mainly understand the significant A five-year-old boy perpetrated by men in an during the past two years due to unfavourable weather conditions,” Commissioner government agencies. impact of abuse and Fitzsimmons said. sustained serious burns to The message to the intimate partner violence on their his body and was airlifted relationship or after “With the Bush Fire Danger Period fast approaching, beginning on 1 August in some perpetrators who are children. Children can be areas in the state’s north, I encourage everyone to start preparing their property now, to Westmead Hospital in a abusing their partners, separating from the directly affected by being critical condition. relationship. It extends including checking and maintaining your firefighting equipment, and to make or children or family members present or indirectly when update your bush fire survival plan.” Fire fighters attended and is this: beyond physical violence they witness an assault extinguished the blaze, and may involve the Information about hazard reduction burning and required notifications is available on "Unlike other crimes occurring (pushing, hitting the NSW RFS website at www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/BFDP. however; the house was committed involving exploitation of power or twisting and arm); totally destroyed. personal violence, the imbalances and patterns of destroying property, seeing Officers from Hunter NSW Police Force will abuse. or hearing ongoing Valley Police District know who you are. At The NSW Police Force is harassment and established a crime scene, some time in the future, committed to using all intimidation or which will be forensically you will come to our lawful means to police witnessing the victim examined once deemed attention and you will be domestic and family parent constantly safe. held to account for your violence. This includes crying from the The cause of the fire is yet actions, it is just a matter of wherever possible: trauma. to be determined. time. Your partner (the  removing offenders Some children are Anyone with information is victim) is not responsible from the victim brave and try to stop urged to come forward. for your behaviour. You (victim safety is a the perpetrator and Domestic and must take responsibility for priority) often get physically your actions and stop the  taking out an hurt themselves. Family Violence abuse and violence now. 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Real Estate Institute of commitments, remained the subject of 10 or the average national hourly However, buyers must still Australia (REIA). unchanged at 17.6 per cent. more complaints in a charge-out cost for a complete paper documents “Overall the figures for “The continued decline in calendar month. removalist over the 2018 to satisfy legal require- May 2018 show, in trend housing finance confirms Prior to this, REINSW financial year was $93.24, ments. terms, that the number of the feedback from the lodged a submission up 3.04 per cent from “Whether it’s a smart owner-occupied finance market that the APRA with suggestions for 2017. Removalists in NSW News phone, tablet or app, people commitments decreased by restrictions and the fallout improvements. are charging even more use technology every day to 0.7 per cent – the eighth from the Royal Unfortunately we were than the national average – manage their lives. Property consecutive month of Commission into Banking ignored. with an hourly rate of transactions shouldn’t be decreases," says REIA have resulted in an Currently it misleads $95.21. any different,” Minister for president, Malcolm extremely cautious consumers in relation to Plumbers are the second- Finance, Services and Gunning. "If refinancing is approach by lenders,” says franchises and brand most highly paid of those Property, Victor Dominello excluded, in trend terms, Gunning. co-operatives which are providing a household said late last year when the the number of owner- “Loan applications are now combined together and service, according to the NSW Government occupied finance commit- being scrutinised for real not as individual traders. data which is based on a requested feedback on ments decreased by 0.6 per costs of living, including Small businesses with sample of 121,000 jobs promoting technology in cent – the ninth consecutive outgoings such as school perfect records that are quoted during the 2018 property transactions. month since an increase. fees and use of credit cards. operating as a franchise financial year. “Technology has “In trend terms, decreases At the same time, an ultra are indistinguishable They charge on average transformed businesses and were recorded in all states conservative approach is from unbranded traders. $83.04 per hour while consumer expectations. We and territories except being taken by banks with The definition of a electricians’ fees increased must ensure that property Tasmania, where lending their valuations which complaint also needs an 4.25 per cent to $75.71. transactions are fit-for- increased by 0.3 per cent. means funds available are urgent review. The The biggest national purpose in the digital age.” The largest decrease of 1.9 below purchaser’s current definition is increase was for general If successful, the NSW per cent was in the expectations. ludicrous and handymen, whose rates digital property reforms Australian Capital “We need to ensure that consequently jumped 11.97 per cent over could become an example Territory." lending approaches reflect misleading. the year to $56.73 an hour, for other states. “The value of investment the market rather than set Here’s hoping for putting them in fourth The new laws are slated to housing commitments the market, which appears change soon. place. 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Queensland passed last year that allowed electronically,” says Tim purchase commitments feedback Removalists charge the builders, too, had a 32.73 the NSW Government to McKibbin, REINSW CEO. decreased by 0.6 per cent highest hourly fees in per cent increase in their digitise a raft of paper Digital from the start while the purchase of new the country of all trades average charge out hourly processes. It also follows calls If passed, the law will The May 2018 housing dwellings decreased by 0.9 and household service rate. from industry professionals significantly streamline finance figures released per cent and new dwelling professionals – even Employing any expert is a and representatives, including property transactions for today by the Australian construction fell by 1.5 per By Tim McKibbin, CEO, more than plumbers, decision you need to make REINSW, to update the buyers and banks. Bureau of Statistics show cent." 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$611,000 project serves up a refreshment for saleyards THE NEWS No. 481 WEDNESDAY 25 July 2018 ͽ 11 this year. kiosk “Singleton Regional Livestock Market is an The transformation of the term, with flow-on effects upgraded,” he said. is scheduled to commence important economic and Singleton Regional to the local community. “The upgrade unveiled late January 2019 and is historic facility for our Livestock Market will The kiosk upgrade follows earlier this year was a anticipated to take 12 community and Council is continue after Singleton the official opening of the significant improvement in weeks to complete.” committed to ensuring the Council received $305,955 $7.73million upgrade in the facilities for the The funding announcement facility provides the best under the Federal February this year, funded hundreds of cattle that pass also comes as Council value not only for sales Government’s Building by $6million from the through the yards each moves ahead to assure the agents and buyers, but the Better Regions Fund to NSW Government’s week, and the agents and ongoing viability of the people of Singleton as a upgrade the kiosk building. Resources for Regions buyers who come from Singleton Regional community asset. The dollar-for-dollar program and $1.73million across NSW and interstate Livestock Market following funding will see the from Council, with works to attend the weekly sale. a Council resolution in “The operation of the kiosk $611,000 project go ahead including a roof over the “An improved kiosk will March to invite a selective will be advantageous in any to provide disabled Northern Yards selling provide a much-needed tender process for the lease lease arrangement and this facilities and access, up-to- area, almost one kilometre benefit to all users through and operation of the site. investment in asset renewal date food preparation and of raised aerial walkways improved access, amenity Council is currently will assist in securing the dining facilities, and im- and installation of and service provision for finalising tender and lease best outcome for the proved structural capacity rainwater harvest tanks. refreshments and documents to enable the community as well as an including new walls, roof Director Corporate & networking away from the Selective Tender to be eventual lessee in providing Did you know(?) and flooring. Community Anthony Egan noise and activity of the advertised in August, with a the best possible services,” Council has budgeted the said the kiosk was an sale floor. decision on the outcome to Mr Egan said. Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was wrestling champion remaining funds in its important next step in “Construction of the project be made by Council later of his county. He fought in nearly 300 matches and lost only one. 2018/2019 Building Capital making the Singleton Works Program. Regional Livestock Market Senator for New South an industry-recognised Wales John Williams and state-of-the-art facility. Minister for Regional “The detailed design and Development, Territories construction of the kiosk and Local Government was proposed as part of the John McVeigh announced original saleyard upgrade Singleton had been works, given the poor successful in its application condition of the building earlier this week, saying the and its lack of conformance project was a significant to building standards and investment in building a requirements and it has stronger economy and always been Council’s to driving jobs for the long- intent for it to be Branxton & Vineyards Real Estate

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Cessnock City Library is planning writing schedules for (major in Creative Writing) from their writing skills and ace their offering local students a free each exam, time management, Griffith College, Dublin, a exams. workshop aimed at developing using key words, and practical Bachelor’s Degree in Public “Cessnock City Library wants to strategies to cope with the ways to write under pressure. Administration from the support our local students to pressure of the HSC from 4.30 The facilitator is writing expert, University of Limerick and a achieve the best possible outcome to 6.30pm on Thursday 26 July. Keith Whelan who has been a Masters Degree in Social with their examination results. The For those students who find writer for the past 20 years. Change & Development from workshop will include discussion exams challenging or stressful, Starting life as a Journalist, he the University of Newcastle, about writing related questions and this free workshop will help to progressed to becoming an Australia. issues in a friendly, supportive develop the skills needed to Author, Lecturer, Publicist, Library Services Co-ordinator, atmosphere,” said Rose-marie. take charge and perform more Copywriter, Researcher and Rose-marie Walters is confidently under pressure. Editor. encouraging HSC students to Students can book by calling The workshop will cover what Keith holds a Diploma in take advantage of this wonderful 4993 4399 (library). works and what doesn’t, Journalism and Media Studies opportunity to learn how to hone Locals dig in to save critically endangered North Rothbury plant A Look at Simple The population of a critically endangered local plant has grown by 400 after two successful planting out campaigns by the Office of Environment and Heritage and local volunteers. More than 40 philosophy volunteers took to their shovels in a community planting day for the Persoonia pauciflora or North Science is what you know. Philosophy Rothbury Persoonia last month. is what you don't know. ~ Bertrand This followed staff from the Office of Environment and Heritage and National Parks and Wildlife Russell Service recently planting 200 of the species. “There are only 1,000 known North Rothbury Persoonia in the wild, so getting 400 out there is a Stripped of ethical rationalizations and significant contribution to preserving the species,” Office of Environment and Heritage Senior philosophical pretensions, a crime is Project Officer Paul Hillier said. “It’s an attractive bright green shrub with small yellow flowers and anything that a group in power chooses edible fruit. As the species recovers, it will become a valuable food source for native bees, grazing to prohibit. ~ Freda Adler animals and fruit eating birds. The program of supplementing the wild population with translocated A fool's brain digests philosophy into stock began in 2015, with some experimental planting and as a result, the folly, science into superstition, and art population has been increased by 700. into pedantry. Hence University “Echoing past years, 42 volunteers came along, ensuring the job was done in education. ~ George Bernard Shaw no time and the The philosophy of one century is the volunteers were common sense of the next. rewarded with ~ Henry Ward Beecher their own History is Philosophy teaching by Persoonia plants examples ~ Thucydides to take home,” Mr Hillier said.

book, Murnane again deflects these questions, and their implications. Murnane has never been a theorist or a theologian; he is a cartographer of the inner ‘homeland-of-the-mind’. Murnane divides readers. He can seem bloodless and cerebral, overly complex and obscure. Such criticisms are valid, but inevitable to Murnane’s enterprise. Like Woolf, Proust, and – more recently – Karl Ove Knausgaard, Murnane’s fiction maps the terrain of a particular mind. Murnane’s fictional minds are like the old-fashioned marbles his child-self favours, they do ‘not readily give their contents away’. If this neural landscape feels too alien, so too will its narrative and allegorical logic. His project is not wilfully exclusionary, but neither ...... and other is it actively inclusionary. Devotees are drawn in by Murnane’s dispassionate contemplation, and his willingness to inhabit the Miles Franklin Literary borderlands between conjecture and reality, memory and imagination, writer and written, life and death, Award: A reader's guide to love-letter and elegy: ‘Even in my youth,’ he writes, ‘I seem to have been seeking evidence that the mind the 2018 shortlist is a place best viewed from the borderlands.’ In Australian literature, Murnane is sui generis: Border Now in its 61st year, the Miles Franklin Literary Award Gerald Murnane Districts is – quite simply – a book for those who continues its focus on Australian fiction's heavy-hitters, church). love Murnane. Border Districts is a quieter, gentler book than its forebears, weighted, with a shortlist that includes two previous winners and a The narrator frequently references the writing process, what he's written and but not haunted, by Murnane’s Catholic upbringing and its echoes. It’s current favourite for the Nobel Prize in Literature. the act of reading. also a synesthetic book, heady with colour: ‘I consider myself a student The $60,000 literary prize is named after feminist icon He's recently moved to a town near the border. What is this border? It is a of colours and shades and hues and tints. Crimson lake, burnt umber, Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (widely considered to metaphorical border as much as a geographical one. His book sits in the space ultramarine ... I was too clumsy a child to paint with my moistened be Australia's first literary novelist) and purports to between fiction and non-fiction. brush the scenery that I would have liked to bring into being.’ There is distinguish a novel "of the highest literary merit" which He writes: "I have never travelled more than a day's journey by road or trail nothing clumsy about Border Districts. In its final pages, the narrator’s presents "Australian life in any of its phases". from my birthplace. Foreign countries exist for me as mental images, some of calm contemplation is jolted by a radio interview with woman on the Past winners include a number of canonical stalwarts: them vivid, and many of them having originated while I was reading works of other side of the border, a writer, a fellow seeker of answers. He Patrick White (at this point, the only Australian to win a fiction." imagines sharing his report with her, crossing the border and placing Nobel Prize in Literature), Ruth Park, Thea Astley and He is more interested in the inner geography of his mind than what can be the pages in her hands. It is sublime writing – a plea for connection; an Tim Winton (who, along with Astley, has received the discovered through travel. aching, transcendent coda. award four times). Border Districts is a novel without plot; it is more a This year's shortlist is characteristically august, philosophical meditation of an author who turns 80 next including novels by Michelle de Kretser, who took out year. the award in 2013 with Questions of Travel, and Kim In the New York Times profile of Murnane this year, the Scott, who has won the award twice, for Benang in 2000 headline read: Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature and Dead Man Dance in 2011. Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town? Now that the Just months after being described as "Australia's most Nobel prize for literature has been cancelled this year distinguished unread writer", Gerald Murnane has and possibly in 2019, perhaps he'll have to settle for secured his first Miles Franklin shortlisting for his winning the Miles Franklin instead. experimental novel Border Districts. Beejay Silcox reviews 'Border Districts' by Gerald This comes after widespread speculation that the Murnane

79-year-old writer was in with a very good chance at I always dreamed that I would read a book that would be this year's Nobel Prize in Literature (which was absolutely everything that I’ve wanted, and because I didn’t subsequently postponed). find that book, I wrote it myself. I don’t mean one particular Rounding out the selection are three newcomers to the book. I mean my collected works.’ Miles Franklin hall of fame: Eva Hornung (best known Gerald Murnane (2015 interview) for her 2009 masterpiece Dog Boy), Felicity Castagna There is a whiff of mythology about Gerald Murnane. He is (who won the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award for quietly infamous for who he isn’t: for the things he’s never Young Adult Fiction for The Incredible Here and Now) done (travel by aeroplane); the things he’ll never do (live and Catherine McKinnon (whose play Tilt was selected outside of Victoria, wear sunglasses); the things he’ll never for the 2010 National Playwriting Festival). do again (watch movies or a Shakespeare play); the books The list:- he won’t read (contemporary fiction); the books he won’t # Taboo by Kim Scott write (interrogations of national identity); and the literary # The Last Garden by Eva Hornung prizes he hasn’t won (almost all of them – much to critical # Storyland by Catherine McKinnon incredulity). Australians often struggle with strangeness: we do not easily surrender to the unconventional, the wilfully # The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser eccentric, or the unapologetically clever. It’s hard to know # Border Districts by Gerald Murnane what to do with a writer who is all three. # No More Boats by Felicity Castagna As its blurb explains, Border Districts has been ‘conceived The winner of the 2018 award will be announced on as Gerald Murnane’s last work of fiction’. Conceived is a Sunday, August 26 at a ceremony in Melbourne. slippery word: it seems to offer the weakly flickering hope that more fiction might follow, despite the author’s initial resolve, but – more likely – it reflects the defining quality of Murnane’s fiction: intention. Murnane has a deliberate mind. If Border Districts has been conceived as his last fiction, it will have a particular role to play – a culmination, a closing. An unnamed man is writing a report ‘for his files’. Like his author, the man is writing in the blurred, liminal space between fiction and non-fiction: ‘I am not writing a work of fiction, but a report of seemingly fictional matters.’ Like his author, the man has moved from the city to a remote border town, the last place he intends to live (Murnane is now based in Goroke, on the edge of Victoria’s Wimmera plains). As the man explains with measured directness: ‘I moved to this district near the border so that I could spend most of my time alone and so that I could live according to several rules that I had for long wanted to live by.’ It is a premise with echoes of Thoreau’s ascetic isolation (‘I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately’), but without his marrow-sucking outwardness. Murnane has spent more than forty years interrogating and re-interrogating a recurring set of potent images that unite, unlock, and anchor his memories: a dark-haired woman, the swirled centres of childhood marbles, morning light through coloured window panes, the vividness of jockeys’ silks, a spectral pattern of ‘stems and leaves and petals’. In Border Districts, he returns to this kaleidoscopic inspiration, but with a sense of calm finality. ‘Here, near the border,’ he explains, ‘I am even more inclined than of old to complete a pattern in my mind and then go on writing until I learn the Gerald Murnane's first novel Tamarisk Row was meaning for me of such an image.’ There’s a deceptive simplicity about this endeavour; it is simultaneously con- published in 1974. Border Districts is said to be his last. crete and ethereal, haphazard and cyclical. Prelude: When J.M. Coetzee insightfully profiled Murnane for The Border Districts opens with the unnamed narrator re- New York Review of Books in 2012, he observed: ‘Whether flecting on his schooling, the building where he was the connections between images lie implicit in the images taught, and his admission that he is indifferent to archi- themselves or are created by an active, shaping intelli- tecture (although he then spends the next couple of gence ... [and] whether that energy is always to be trusted – pages writing about the features of his neighbourhood these are questions that do not interest him.’ In this last

The seventy-eight-year-old Nobel Prize contender writes like a clock- maker: every sentence is a finely tooled cog, every book an exquisite machine. With Border Districts, his fictional clockwork is complete; if you put your ear to the pages you can almost hear them ticking.

17 ͽ | THE NEWS | No. 481 | WEDNESDAY 25 July 2018 Detailed saleyard report

Local groups urged to apply for pest and weed drought funding Hunter Local Land Services is urging local groups with an interest in pest and weed management to apply for the Australian Government’s $1.5million Saleyard report - cattle pest and weed drought funding program. The program will support regional initiatives in drought affected areas like the Singleton report date 18 Jul 2018 Upper Hunter. Funds will be directed to projects that reduce grazing pressure Consignments nearly halved, as the quality remains similar week-on-week. Majority of cattle were in younger categories, from pest animals, stock losses from pest animals and the spread of weeds. with the bulk being suitable for restockers and feeders. There were approximately 130 cows in the penning, with some high Hunter Local Land Services supports landholder or community groups yielding pens carrying plenty of weight. One buyer was absent in the competition causing a cheaper trend for younger working together to control pest species such as foxes, wild dogs, pigs, rabbits cattle. The over 200kg vealer steers to restockers remained close to firm, making from 200c to 270c/kg. The heifer portion and deer. with the same weight struggled to maintain solid prices decreasing 20c, receiving from 150c to 224c/kg. The medium “Working cross tenure to support neighbours is the best way we can weight yearling steers to restockers and lot feeders maintained firm prices from 236c to 270c/kg. The better quality yearling collectively manage to target pest species,” said Hunter Local Land Services heifers, suitable for the restockers, made from 180c to 230c/kg. Prime, high yielding younger cattle, suitable for local Biosecurity Team Leader Luke Booth. butchers, sold at slightly cheaper trends, with better pens making from 308c to 328c/kg. Cows maintained solid prices, with “Recently at Upper Rouchel we saw 33 landholders come together in a group the feature of the cow market being a pen of high yielding heavy weights, weighing 805kg they made 258c/kg, returning program to put out 4,645 baits targeting wild dogs, as a follow on activity $2,077/head. The plainer cows sold from 120c to 220c, depending on cover and weight, while the better finished pens made after our Autumn aerial baiting program. from 198c to 258c/kg. The best heavy weight bull topped at 235c/kg. “It’s these sorts of community efforts that have the biggest knockdown results on pest animals in our region.” Scone report date 17 July 2018 With ongoing drought conditions continuing to impact the region, Hunter Numbers declined this week and on average, quality was plainer, as the majority on offer were in younger categories. There Local Land Services is urging pest and weed organisations to apply for the was a good number of cows, however the bulk were showing effects of the season. One buyer was absent, meaning the pest and weed drought funding program before 18 July 2018. Installing cluster younger cattle sold at cheaper levels. The over 200kg vealers to restockers were 15c to 20c/kg cheaper, with the heifer or grazing fencing, or target weed control or pest management activities such portion experiencing greater losses. The steers sold from 162c to 248c, as the heifer portion sold from 158c to 238c/kg. as baiting, trapping, shooting, trail camera use are all eligible under the Yearling steers to lot feeders eased 10c, with the medium weights making from 258c to 294c/kg. The yearling heifers going program. to lot feeders made from 198c to 240c/kg. There were very few young cattle in prime condition suitable for the butchers in Hunter Local Land Services will also be working with local wild dog the penning, with the best topping at 300c/kg. Restockers purchased the bulk of the grown heifers, paying from 170c to associations to coordinate an application to undertake a spring aerial baiting 220c/kg to secure their selections. The light weight cows were plainer this week and prices adjusted lower accordingly, with program to follow on from the autumn program, to ensure maximum pressure restockers and processors paying from 78c to 126c/kg. The heavier cows improved 12c throughout all categories, with is put on pest animals during this drought period. drought affected plainer drafts making from 70c to 170c/kg. The better covered heavy weights sold from 225c to 228c/kg. Landholders or local organisations are being urged to contact their nearest The best heavy weight bull reached 218c/kg, with quality decreasing further week-on-week. Hunter Local Land Services office to discuss the program or contact our Bio- security team directly if you wish to discuss pest animal control in your area TRLX Tamworth report date 16 July 2018 on 1300 795 299. Numbers remained stable, with large supplies of light and medium weight young cattle and another large penning of cows. There were limited supplies of grown steers and heifers and the overall quality of the offering was very mixed. Once again, Lower Hunter Drought Review - the majority of the well finished lots came from the older cattle, along with a few supplementary fed yearlings. All the regular buyers attended, however the extra restocker competition on cows from last week was absent. Faced with the Tocal continuity of poor seasonal conditions, restocker activity was again somewhat subdued. This resulted in cheaper trends While drought is ongoing in parts of our region, conditions have mostly eased through the light weight, young cattle and those deemed unsuitable to provide supplementary feeding. Once again, feedlot in the majority of the Lower Hunter. demand was strong for medium and heavy weight yearling steers, with the market trend firm to dearer. The best of the price Hunter Local Land Services wants to help you review your drought prepared- improvement was made by heavy weights, up to 9c/kg dearer. Medium and heavy weight yearling heifers to feed sold to a ness and coping mechanisms to ensure local producers have the tools and slightly cheaper trend overall. However, there was some quality related price change. Well finished grown steers sold to a capabilities they need to handle the next time we are faced with worsening cheaper trend, down 4c, with breed and quality contributing to price decreases. The plainest condition light weight cows seasonal conditions. suffered from the reduced restocker competition, selling on a firm to cheaper trend. Medium and heavy weight cows to The workshop will guide you through a drought plan for your property, to process sold on a firm to slightly dearer market trend. The price increase was more noticeable on 2 score medium weight help you make informed decisions in the future when the need arises. cows, displaying a higher yield potential. However, the price increase was not as noticeable for the 3 and 4 score heavy Plus, we want you to give us feedback on what resources and support you weights. Breed and yield potential were contributing factors in price variability. needed during the recent drought to ensure our services provide what you May cattle slaughter surge need in tough times. National slaughter and production increased again in May as a result of drier than average conditions. Local beef industry expert Ian Blackwood will step you through a best May rainfall for much of the eastern states and southern WA was lower than year-ago levels. This largely contributed to practice drought management guide in an interactive and informative session. national cattle slaughter for the month increasing 11% year-on-year, to over 758,000 head in May (ABS). This brought the Each event is limited to just 15 farmers – more events can be arranged in your year-to-date (January – May) total to almost 3.15 million head, also up 11% on 2017 levels. area if demand warrants. Victoria saw the largest increase in adult cattle slaughter, up by 30% or just over 35,000 head on May last year to total RSVP here: https://hunterlls.wufoo.com/forms/zo7zx9a01xw9hb/ almost 152,000 head. Most other states also saw an increase, with the exception of South Australia, which eased by 41% When ~ 8th Aug 2018 9:00am-3:00pm (14,569 head) from last year with the closure of a major processor earlier in the year having an effect. Where ~ North Court 3, Tocal Agricultural College, Tocal On the back of higher May slaughter, production increased 9% year-on-year, totalling almost 220,000 tonnes carcase Contact ~ Col Freeman 0428 043 427 Eva Twarkowski 0437 056 978 weight (cwt). This brought the year-to-date total to over 931,000 tonnes cwt, a 10% increase on 2017 levels. The national average carcase weight for May was 290.1 kg, back 2% on year-ago levels, as female cattle made up a larger proportion of the total kill. In April and May this year, females accounted for 53% – whereas the five-year average for these Racing review months is 50-51%. Female cattle slaughter in May almost reached 403,200 head – the highest monthly volume since July 2015. For the year-to-date, females made up 49% of national slaughter an increase of 4 percentage points from the same period last year. NSW racing’s huge prizemoney Williams Welcomes The The major difference is that anybody can win one “I know I am going to have to highlight my horses of those 12 places by purchasing a $5 ticket at by the draw date. pay rise a huge boost for Kosciuszko Challenge TABs and AHA pubs across New South Wales. “Horses like Don’t Give A Damn and She Knows, by Ray Hickson “I think it’s a great concept and I’m highly that perhaps have a bit of a following, may be metropolitan, provincial and Leading country excited it’s incorporated the punter in the pub and more likely to get in based on what they’ve done country racing gives them an opportunity throughout NSW to already. As long as people know they are there to trainer Danny From September 1, Racing NSW will pour an select a horse,’’ Williams said. chase them.’’ Williams has additional $24 million to boost prizemoney levels “It’s a bit like a lottery. I honestly think it is Williams also welcomed increases in prizemoney thrown his with each Sydney Saturday race to be worth going to be a real winner and bring Everest Day for Highway races – he has won 15.5 Highways support behind $125,000, an increase of $25,000, city midweek to the attention of a lot of people.’’ since their inception – from $60,000 to $75,000 The Kosciuszko meetings has minimum race prizemoney of The $5 Kosciuszko sweep tickets go on sale from from September 1 and the boost to those that concept and is $50,000 (up from $40,000), and public holiday Thursday and the owners of the 12 places in the don’t finish in the placings. already working racedays has a stakes surge from $50,000 to race will be known in mid-September and it will The trainer of horses finishing from fourth to tenth on how to tackle $60,000 per race. then be up to those winners, with assistance from in races at metropolitan, provincial and country the challenge of Provincial races will boast stakes of at least Racing NSW, to source their Kosciuszko runners. races will receive an extra payment to be credited showcasing his $35,000 (up from $30,000), while country races Williams has a number of horses that appear to an owner’s account. best horses to will be worth $22,000 per race (up from $20,000) desirable like Country Championships runner-up “That in itself is huge, particularly in the country gain places in the while TAB Highways for bush gallopers at Don’t Give A Damn, Kopi Luwak, the in-form it is going to give people confidence to have a 12 horse field. Sydney Saturday meetings will boast minimum She Knows, Acquittal and Highway Sixtysix. horse in work,’’ Williams said. The Kosciuszko Trainer Danny Williams. (Pic: Bradley stakes of $75,000 (up from $60,000). He said now it’s up to him to work out programs “You know if you’re running sixth or eighth is run over Photos) Metropolitan, provincial and country racing are particularly for those horses that need exposure. you’re picking up prizemoney to sustain having 1200m under set the big winners from prize money increase. Also “We’ll learn a lot about the concept from this that horse in work. weights and penalties conditions, carries included is the increase in prizemoney to two of year to next year,’’ he said. “Ultimately I tell my owners to enjoy having a prizemoney of $1.3 million and will be run at The Championship races namely the Percy Sykes “We are a bit shell-shocked at the moment but I horse and our endeavour is to try and make it pay Royal Randwick on October 13 on the Everest Stakes and the Arrowfield 3 Year Old Sprint think it’s a very positive concept. It’s doesn’t just its way and have fun.’’ program. which have an additional $400,000 added to take give someone with the best horse an opportunity TAB’s market on The Kosciuszko has Care To Like The Everest, a horse earns a run in the race them to $1 million per race. but someone lucky enough to be associated with Think a $6 favourite ahead of Victorem and via somebody owning that place and making a This means that the 10 Championship races now drawing a horse. Eckstein ($8) with Don’t Give A Damn at $11. deal with a horse’s connections. carry a minimum of $1 million per race.

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A wanted man on drops down instead and is with some old-fashioned point (perhaps use one of these the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his photos reversed, with selfie at the top. techniques that literally stop lovely iPhone camera tripods?) By Karen Haslam | Using the Timer button your hands from moving as while checking the shot is right family who is trapped inside the building...above the fire line. The best camera is the one The Timer button can be seen much: pushing the side of your on your Apple Watch. you've got with you, they say. at the top of the screen (or left body against a vertical surface When you're happy, either tap  Rating: MA (for sequences of gun violence and action, and for brief strong lan- And for a great many of us, in landscape). 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Take a deep breath and in - a group family photo and not camera, with plenty to offer automatically took a burst of let out a slow, steady exhale as be looking down at your watch  Runtime: 103 minutes everyone from everyday 10 photos. you gently tap the shutter at the moment the shutter goes  Studio: Universal Pictures snappers to serious iPho- You are most likely to use this release button. off. neography enthusiasts. feature if you have the facility Or you can use the two-second Take shots in HDR - but keep In this series of articles we to set up your iPhone on a self-timer. With this, so you're the original too offer detailed advice on making platform and step away from it not actually pressing a shutter Even if you've got a tiny- the most of the most useful to take a photo without it when you're taking a shot and capacity iPhone, if it's capable of camera features, settings and falling over. 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You can tap the tripods for the iPhone. camera shake, you may want to together three different Camera app icon on the Home To take a selfie on a timer, tap consider buying an accessory. exposures of a scene so that you screen, or slide up from the the dial, choose the number of Which leads us on to the next still see detail in very bright and bottom of the screen to access seconds and tap the shutter section... very dark areas - but also have Review: 'Die Hard' wannabe 'Skyscraper' just dies the Control Panel and select the button - then make sure the Tripods the regular, non-HDR version as Adam Graham, Detroit News Film Critic Camera app icon there. 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Kindergarten enrolments are Branxton Public School currently being accepted. Our first official orientation event will take place in Term 3 with a Parent Information Evening on Tuesday 28th August. Please pop in to see the friendly Office Staff or phone the school on 49381214 for more information if you have a little person to enrol for 2019. Our PBL Assembly and reward activities were a great success on the last day of term. Lots of colourful fun for students and teachers alike. Education Week is in Week 3 and we will be celebrating on Wednesday 8th August, with open classrooms and a special Assembly showing off the many talents of our students. Book Week Celebrations will be in Week 6 with the theme this year being 'Find Your Treasure'. Start thinking Ξ Colour Run about you costumes for the Book Week Parade on Wednesday 29th August.

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with Neridah Kentwell ...... GRETA When the Small Town of someone else to hold it, as will Greta Had Many Hotels be seen later. Greta is usually thought of as Anvil Creek- having its beginnings as a coal In April 1857 and April 1858, mining town. And Samuel Chapman received his 1898, 1899, 1909, and 1914. local hotel licenses, with a In 1889 William Reay applied because the old way of coal WCP Licenses for Anvil In 1915, 1920 & 1921 William large majority voting for for a conditional license to mining required a lot of drink- Creek. Young Veitch held a CW continuance in Greta. build a brick hotel in Greta, but ing to wash the coal dust away, In September 1873 John License at Harpers Hill as well In 1914 Charles Beswick was refused on the grounds that and transport was once too Stafford also held a WCP as 1925. In 1932, 1936 & 1938 applied for a conditional there was already five public slow to get to that necessary License in Anvil Creek. an Australian Wine License licence for premises proposed houses in Greta, although the drink quickly enough, a pub In 1873 and 1874 Andrew was again granted for renewal to be erected at Greta, with the board admitted it would have was needed on every corner. Bleakley had a license in Anvil to William Young Veitch at architect James Warren Scobie been good to have had a brick As a small lease in Anvil Creek Creek, along with Thomas Harpers Hill, who was submitting the plans for a two- one as the others were all (near the present Greta Railway Tonks in 1874, both of which obviously still going strong. story up-to-date brick hotel, wood. The licensing court also Henry was granted a billiard Rudd was leasing, which he station) was the first to produce were WCP Licenses. Greta- with the current two-story heard objections, one being license for this hotel would repay in instalments, so coal from William Farthing’s The Crown’s hotel license at Railway Hotel - building to be demolished and from George Beatty who 1878- Martin Durham that the license would then discovery early in 1862, you Anvil Creek was held by In 1880 Richard Rostron the four original rooms that produced a plan showing the 1878 – 1879- Joseph Redhead became Rudd’s. That day H D might have thought the first Henry Kesterton in June 1846, obtained the Hotel License for would be left to be detached distance between the present 1879-1882 – Joseph Redhead Rudd left for Maitland to pay alcoholic business would have Hector McLean in June 1847, the Railway Hotel in High from the new building. This public houses, five within half 1883-1885 – Thomas Harman it. His brother Walter Rudd, had to have sprung up near W Holden in June 1848 for a Street, and held it until 1886. In was the new Prince of Wales a mile. The public house was In 1889 -1891 John Chapman who was the barman and there. Surprisingly, The month, with Fred Williams 1887 Richard Rostron Jr. took Hotel erected on the corner of also found to be the same as had the license for the servant who lived on the Crown at Anvil Creek already taking it over in July 1848 and over his father’s license for the High and Water Streets, with the one Mr Smallshaw Sportsman’s Arms in Greta. premises, kept the hotel open had its first license granted in holding it until July 1850. Railway Hotel and continued Messrs J Cook and Son being (Sportsmans Arms) had 1892- Thomas Harman for two days waiting for his 1846, and was already well William Clift then took it on in it until 1891. 1892 to 1896 the contractors. The clerk in the already applied for, but had 1893-1910- Matthew H North, brother’s return, then closed it established when the first coal December 1850 before Fred Daniel Ferguson held the Hotel West Maitland licensing court been refused on the grounds was also the proprietor and he to find out if it had been paid, mining started in the village. Williams took it back in April License, and was the said that it was within the that he already had a license. was an alderman in 1902 until which it had not. Walter Rudd So farmers would have been 1851, which was then taken proprietor, for the Railway Singleton electorate, with 22 There was a Sportsman’s 1904. Samuel Page had the was then summonsed on the their first customers, or more back by William Clift in April Hotel which also became being the maximum number Arms Hotel in Branxton license first in 1893. Matthew 28th July for serving liquor on possibly travellers looking for 1852 and June 1854. Samuel known as Ferguson’s Hotel at allowed and there were two which confuses matters even North died in 1911. unlicensed premises. He was an overnight break from the Chapman had the license from the time, then William Griffith vacancies, because 20 licenses more. In 1860 a converted store 1911 – Jane North fined £30, and 7s 4d court slow progress, north or south, April 1856 and in April 1858, held this license from 1897 to had been issued. It was argued was the first Sportsman’s 1912 – License transfer costs, with the court signifying of horse and cart. when it then became The 1898, George Scarlett from that another license was urgent Arms in Branxton in 1860 by granted from Stewart its intention of recommending In December 1853, in an Dealers Arms in April 1860 1890 to 1905 and Alice Scarlett for the amount of collieries that George Collins senior, then McCulloch to Patrick James a reduction of the fine. advertisement in the Maitland with George Collins holding in 1906. were going then. So in October was taken over by George Tierney August 1900 - HP Rudd Mercury and Hunter River the license. In April 1864 the Prince of Wales Hotel- 1915 a new building for the Patrick Collins. 1912-1914 – Patrick Tierney successfully leased the Family General Advertiser, two name then reverted back to the In 1874, the Prince of Wales Prince Of Wales Hotel, 23 May 1860 – J G Cox held 1915- William Lamount Hotel from W G Phillips hundred acres of land were Crown Inn, when it was Hotel was built (where the currently still owned by a the license for the Sportsman’s 1916- Annie Lamount 24 August 1901 – William featured as the Estate of advertised to let by its owner Norman Brown Memorial Park Scully, a Miss N Scully, was Arms, Branxton. 1917-1918- Priscilla Emma Tobin Gretaville at Anvil Creek, on George Lee who lived in West now is) with the first license nearly completed and was 17-4-1862- W McCrossin took Reed paid the license fee of 1903- William Green Phillips Molly Morgan’s old line of Maitland. On the 16th July, taken out by William Scully, opened by the licensee, Charles it over and called it the Emu £20, which assessed as being died road from Maitland to tenders were being advertised from 1875 to 1877 and became Beswick, who held it until and Kangaroo worth £100. In 15 August 1903, the Singleton, which was selling for by its new owner, Charles known as Scully’s Hotel, as a 1916 which is the year he 17-4-1863 – Eli Allen took it 1919-1921- John Enright Licensing Court appointed three blocks, one of 100 acres Atkinson, to repair the house Scully always owned it, even became Mayor of Greta. back to be called the The 1925 and 1926 Greta Lawson Charles Guest to carry and two of fifty acres each. The known as the Crown Inn, at when they didn’t hold the Joseph Francis Alexander Sportsman Arms licenses were also John on the Phillip’s Hotel business previous property/s was said to Anvil Creek. license for it. In 1878 Edward Scully held the license from 1865 – John Smith Enright’s for this Sportsman owned by the deceased have been deserted when gold In 1875 to 1877, John Green Maddison held the Hotel 1917 to 1918, Stanley Walter 1866- George Collins Arms Hotel. William Green Phillips after was discovered but now ‘farm held the Hotel License for the Licenses up to 1880, 1880- Barnes in 1919, William 1867 – James O’Neill In June 1908, a special his son, William Phillips, produce was more likely to Anvil Creek Hotel. From 1888 the license was held by Howell in 1920, John Taylor 1868- M Phelan licensing court was held applied for this to be done. pay’. 1878 to 1880, John Redgrove William Scully, then George Irvine in 1921 and George 1868- Bart Connors regarding the Sportsman’s However, it didn’t work out as The area for Greta had been became the owner of this Young’s licenses went from Fuller in 1922. The 1925 1869- M Phelan Arms Hotel, where miners Lawson Charles Guest became surveyed by Dangar in 1823 license, which was returned to 1889 to 1892, Matthew H. licensee was James Frederick 1870-1871- B Connors from South Greta and East the licensee of the Tattersall’s and 1824 and the town was laid John Green in 1881, then came North’s in 1893, Bridget Randolph Keys for the Prince 1872- Pat Crealey Greta met for their Miner’s Hotel from 1904 to 1910. out by George Boyle White in back to John Redgrove in 1882 Scully’s from 1894 to 1896, of Wales Hotel and in 1926 T 1873-1875- Thomas Harman Lodges, comprising of 400 24 August 1904 – William 1842, then made official & 1884 which he continued to also Richard Scully’s in 1896, O Parker took over the Prince 1876- Jane Ludlum members. It had recently been Tobin geographically in 1843, renew, and be approved for, said to also be the proprietor, of Wales license from James 1877 – J Donahue leased by John James Walsh Tattersall’s Hotel – possibly to become an until 1894. Joseph Scully’s from 1897 to Keys. Herbert Alexander 1878-1882- Thomas Harmon who had paid £700 for the The current building is said to alternative private subdivision A Sir Hercules Robinson 1900, Henry J Heber’s from Horton had the license in 1932. 1883 – The Sportsman’s Arms goodwill, furniture and seven be built in 1892, and so is one to Black Creek (Branxton). Hotel, named after the then 1901 to 1904, Mark North’s in In December 1933, at the time Hotel, Branxton became the years lease of the hotel. of the oldest in the area. The earliest licence issued in current governor of New South 1905, William Maloney in of the Great Depression, Commercial Hotel, Branxton, Chapman’s Family Hotel 1889 to 1896 – Mr John the whole of the colony Wales, was also at Anvil 1906, Thomas Scully’s in 1907 Herbert Alexander Horton although George Collins was was run by Samuel Chapman Champion’s Hotel was ‘John appears to be the Woolpack Creek, with its license held by to 1910 and Donald F surrendered his license of the said to have been granted the and JW Chapman in 1892- Champion’s Tattersall’s Hotel in Parramatta, issued by Matthew Hall in July 1875. In Roberson’s from 1911 to 1913. Prince of Wales Hotel in license in the Sportsman’s 1894. In 1897 to 1902 Noah Hotel’ on the main street, Governor Phillip around 1796, March 1878, Charles Francis It was noted in the Maitland Greta to the Licenses Arms Inn in May 1884, along Palmer held the license and where he was licensee and proving there was liquor laws held the license but it was Weekly Mercury on 10th Reduction Board, with with Thomas Harman. then William Green Phillips proprietor. from early settlement. After cancelled when it was January 1914 that the Scullys complete acceptance by those George Patrick Collins (1883- was said to have had it in 1897-1902 Noah Palmer Jnr. that time, which is up until discovered he had deserted the actually owned the hotel ever hearing the case. The owners of 1890) then sold the building to 1903, for a short time before held the Tattersall’s Hotel 1860, there were four types of hotel. By 1886-1887 Charles since its beginning forty years the premises by then were Henry and Theresa Smallshaw. he died. License, followed by William liquor regulation licensed by Francis held the license again. ago. The Prince of Wales was Tooth and Company, and Henry Smallshaw had the A Cricketers Arm’s Hotel Green Phillips in August 1902, the Clerk of Petty Sessions. In Harpers Hill- closed by Local Option Court Charles Beswick confirmed license from 1891 to 1893 of was also in Greta- the next year he died. 1863 the Publican’s Act came In 1866 to 1868 William and the last license for the that the situation with the Greta the Commercial and the hotel 1868 – James Chalks had the 1904-1910 – Lawson Charles in, and licensing was reduced Taylor held a Colonial Wine existing building ceased on the coal mines meant there was no was then transferred to John & Hotel License Guest then held the license and to two types issued by the License for the Oswald Inn at 31st December 1914 after being work, with the Chairman of the Mary Ann Bayliss to pay off 1879 – John Kerrigan changed the name to Guest’s Clerk of Petty Sessions, which Harpers Hill. given five years to shut down. Board agreeing that ‘95% the debt of buying it. In 1917, 1881-1887 Edward Maddison Hotel. didn’t change back into four In 1877 William Reeves held a It had been decided to close the unemployed spoke for itself’. Bernard Tierney held the 1888- John Champion In 1917, 1920, 1925, 1926 & until much later, in 1912.There Hotel License for the Horse hotel in 1909 after the In October 1934 the Maitland license then in 1920, J Ryan October 1890 – Still in 1932 Ellen Palmer held the are now seven types of license and Jockey at Harpers Hill, condition of the building was Daily Mercury wrote that the held the license for the operation license which reverted back to in NSW. and in 1878 Ester Reeves then reported as ‘bad’ in 1908 and Prince of Wales Hotel had been Commercial Hotel. It was sold Phillips Family Hotel- Tattersall’s Hotel. A Colonial Wine License held the Hotel License for it. only 50 men were employed in sold and removed, purchased in 1925 to Tooth & Co. and 1886 & 1889 - 1891- William In 1938 Tattersalls Hotel at (CW) was a license where the In July 1882 to the 1st July the town; however by the time by a Mr A Williams of Sydney. during the time of Timothy Green Phillips. Greta was the only Greta hotel vineyard/winery could sell 1888, Ester Reeves held a the five years elapsed there was With the removal of the Sports- Quinn as licensee, it was burnt 24th August 1892- John to have a license renewal their own wine as well as Colonial Wine license at nearly 600 men back in work. man’s’ Arms also, only down in 1929. The Branxton Chapman granted because it was the only imported wine, there was also a Harpers Hill. Also in April 1908 there was a Tattersall’s Hotel remained. Inn took on the license and a 27 June 1893- William Green one left. Wine, Cider and Perry (WCP) 1st July 1889 to 1st July 1892, No-License political party Greta Inn was run by William family home for Ron & Robyn Phillips license (perry is fermented pear Edward Neems also held a CW which the Liquor Trades Gellateley from December Black was built on the vacant 27 June 1895 – John Chapman To see more photos, or juice)and a Hotel License (HL) License for his wine shop or Defence Union of New South 1873 to 1875, then again in land. A new Commercial Hotel 27 June 1896 – William Green add to the Greta hotel could sell wine, spirits and small inn at Harpers Hill. Wales decided to combat with 1877. Hannah Gellately held was built elsewhere by Tooth Phillips beer. 1893-1894 Christian Kanter a conference and sent a circular the license in 1878 to 1880. & Co. and leased to a number Mr and Mrs W G Phillips and knowledge, or see more Owners of hotels and the jnr. held a CW License at to hotel keepers throughout the In 1876 a Green’s Hotel was of licensees, twenty five in was still going strong on their of Greta’s history, come licensees can sometimes be Harpers Hill. state. The circular pointed out in Greta, along with a Henry’s total between 1936 and 1999. 50th wedding anniversary in into the Greta Museum hard to separate, and finding Also in 1895 Jesse Hawkins that by the recent Reduction Hotel. In 1896 there was also The Greta Sportsman’s Arms 1897. They had come to Greta on a Wednesday or the licensees can sometimes held a CW License at Harpers Vote possibly 400 hotels would an Excelsior Hotel in Greta Hotel, was established in 1874, twenty-one years earlier in mean following them as they Hill. be closed and unless the trade whose licensee was Henry with Thomas Harman owning 1876, where they were first Saturday between 11am moved around, managing From 1910 to 1913 John M organisation was placed on a Marshall. In 1897 & 1898 - the license from 1873 to 1874 general storekeepers before – 3pm. For more different pubs. The law said Lambert held a Colonial Wine satisfactory basis a similar state There was a Palmer’s Hotel in &1875, when it was first taking on the hotel in 1885. information call or text they could only hold one License at Harpers Hill. of affairs would be the result of Greta, owned by Greta known as The Miner’s Rest, 26 July 1900– The license Neridah on 0427657150, license at a time, but Also in 1897, Major Edward the next vote taken. In Alderman, John Palmer. Greta. It was situated near expired and William Green sometimes they tried to Walker held a CW License at December 1913 a referendum There was also a Mr S Page’s Branxton. Phillips was supposed to pay or email gretamu- overcome this law by getting Harpers Hill, as well as in was held to vote regarding Hotel at the north end of town. September 1876 – Patrick the fee for the hotel which H D [email protected].

Defibrillator grants open for the Hunter

said. “Across the state, the NSW government Wallaby Phil Kearns visit will aim to provide more than 2,500 life -saving defibrillators to local communities and I strongly urge eligible local clubs to consider was inspirational applying.” “23 sporting and recreation clubs across the Hunter were successful in the first whether she/he is small or big, fast or round.” 24 ͽ THE NEWS No. 355 12 March 2013 slow, skilled or not, rugby can Minister for Sport, Stuart Ayres said the accommodate anyone,” said Phil. Local Sport Defibrillator Program has Phil Kearns played in two World Cup Parliamentary Secretary for the Hunter assisted over 400 sporting organisations winning campaigns and captained Scot MacDonald MLC is encouraging attain the life-saving technology during Australia on ten occasions. Hunter sporting clubs to apply for the the first round of the programs On being congratulated on his Local Sport Defibrillator Grant scheduled four year duration. success, he humbly replied, “It was Program, with the NSW Government “With over 7,000 people experiencing fun.” providing funding for life-saving out of hospital cardiac arrest in NSW Phil Kearns is a genuine gentleman, technology to people experiencing every year, immediate access to CPR well spoken, and approachable. cardiac emergencies. and defibrillation at local sports Club President, Tim Murray, said he The program commenced in 2017 and grounds is vital,” Mr Ayres said. was an inspiration to everyone who was provides grants to community sport “In 2018, we hope to increase the there. clubs for half the cost of purchase and availability of defibrillators at Pokolbin Junior Rugby Club welcomes maintenance of an Automated External community-based sports facilities and any players who would like to join Defibrillators (AEDs). improve the likelihood of survival for them in 2013. Contact Tim Murray on Mr MacDonald said access to incidents of cardiac arrest.” 0415 459 033. Training starts March defibrillators in sporting clubs increases The program is currently open and 14th at Hunter Valley Gardens. the chance of survival by up to 75 per applications close 14 September 2018. cent for patients experiencing cardiac Details about applications and arrest. eligibility can be found at https:// ■ Former Wallaby international & Australian Captain, “For many of our residents, access to a sport.nsw.gov.au/clubs/grants/ He spent two hours actively coaching Phil Kearns, speaks to junior players & parents at the defibrillator could be the difference Over two hundred kids and parents met coaching clinic last week defibrillator the kids in the skills of rugby, both between life or death,” Mr MacDonald Rugby World Cup winning Wallaby, individually and as a collective & Phil Kearns, when he made a visit to stayed behind to sign autographs and the Hunter Valley Gardens last have his photo taken with Wednesday to coach the kids of appreciative juniors & parents. Pokolbin Junior Rugby Club. “From my experience, rugby is a Phil inspired the kids by saying that he game where parents and players was a fat, slow, 9 year old boy when he come together as a community to started playing rugby. “From there I have fun, which leads to building went on to play rugby for Australia. long lasting friendships and a culture There’s no reason why one of you of good spirit. Pokolbin junior players can’t do the Rugby is also a game that has a same.” place for every kid regardless of

THOUGHT OF THE WEEK: A young man is stumbling through the woods, totally drunk, when he comes upon a preacher baptizing people in the river. He proceeds into the water, subsequently bumping into the preacher. The preacher turns around and is almost overcome by the smell of alcohol, whereupon, he asks the drunk, "Are you ready to find Jesus?" The drunk shouts, "Yes, I am." So the preacher grabs him and dunks him in the water. He pulls him back and asks, "Brother, have you found Jesus?" The drunk replies, "No, I haven't found Jesus!" The preacher, shocked at the answer, dunks him again but for a little longer. He again pulls him out of the water and asks, "Have you found Jesus, brother?" The drunk answers, "No, I haven't found Jesus!" By this time, the preacher is at his wits end and dunks the drunk again -- but this time holds him down for about 30 seconds, and when he begins kicking his arms and legs about, he pulls him up. The preacher again asks the drunk, "For the love of God, have you found Jesus?" (get ready for this) The drunk staggers upright, wipes his eyes, coughs up a bit of water, catches his breath, and says to the preacher, "Are you sure this is where he fell in?” Branxton & Vineyards Real Estate

4938 3300 0412 566 041 win a ball with the DSR of 71 34 pts and another consistent Steve Piggott 33, Wayne Cowan 33, indicating the difficulties that scorer in Greg Noble with his Darren Crear 33, David Preece 32, John all players had, with one wag 33 pts. The day’s best Brown 32, Brad Burgess 32, Beb telling me that the absence of stableford score came in B Bradley 32, Mark Faulkner 31 and Ken RESULTS the strong westerlies may Grade with David Kinch Springbett 31 c/b. Nearest-the-Pins went have contributed to the high easily winning with his 38 pts, to David Irwin (3rd) Shannon Attewell scores with players allowing 2 points ahead of Robert (4th) Lorraine Clack (8th) and Lachlan for wind which wasn’t there! Miller with Noel Hughes Peacock (17th). Dave Hollis easily won A coming third with 35 pts. Tuesday 17th July The Tuesday Grade with a very impressive Dave’s score was also the best Stableford turned out to be a tight affair 39 pts with Daryl Sheppard of the day for the 5 skins with countbacks needed for all placing's Branxton Veteran Golfers making a return to Saturday qualifying round, giving him with Gary Arnold getting the judge's Results 12-7-18 golf after many weeks away some wine to enjoy at home. nod for 1st place from Julie Van Den Stableford to finish 2nd with 36 pts, while Richard alley won C Grade Berg with Steven Kane 3rd after all 3 Div 1 Winner K Anderson 31 Peter Wilton’s 34 pts was with 35 pts with Col Hughes had returned 34 points. Ball winners pts (SOD) R/u R McGuinness good enough for third. Peter and Mick Lutovac filling in were: Chris Taggart 33, Garry Hedges 30 pts 3rd D Sheppard 29 pts Getting back on Track McKenzie’s 39 pts easily won the minor placings. 31 pts was 33, Rick Turnchini 31, Paul Smith 30, Div 2 Winner I Harris 30 pts “A change is as good as a holiday” him B Grade, well ahead of needed to win a ball with the John Stewart 29, Steve Abel 29, Gavin (c/b) R/u R Chalmers 30 pts A few weeks ago I went on a holiday to Western Australia. I flew to Perth and runner up Peter Marquet, with day’s DSR a 70. The shot of Gillard 29 and Bob Prentice 29. Nearest (c/b) 3rd P Hocking 30 pts hired a car and drove to Exmouth. It was fantastic! I went SCUBA diving for Club Captain/ President the day belonged to Robert -the-Pins went to Grahame Sheldon Ladies Winner R McCarthy 28 the first time in years, I went running in some places I had never been before, Murray Johanson third with “Shirl” Miller on the last hole, (3rd) Ben Bradley (8th) and David Peel pts R/u J Scobie 25 pts (c/b) and I swam with whale sharks and manta rays. Wow! the same score. Tom Lundy finishing just under 2 metres (10th & 17th) 3rd M Hunt 25 pts There is a saying that a change is as good as a holiday. But I am pretty sure that won C Grade with the day’s away. Those players who have Wednesday 18th July Tough Pin whoever said that had never been on a holiday. Just being out of your usual NTPs Ladies R McCarthy best stableford score of 40 pts, entered the 5 skins qualifying placements contributed to many routine, seeing new places and having new experiences does wonders for your Gents G Noble which enabled him to win the competition have another 3 'blowout' scores in the Ladies Stroke mental health, not to mention being able to disconnect a little bit from social Members draw - Not won 5 skins Round 1 Qualifying rounds to improve their event with Kay Dunn winning the day media and phone calls. Another pleasant Winter’s day round—there is some fine qualifying scores. on countback to Dale Hamilton with I’m usually pretty active on my holidays. I like to run and walk a lot because I for enjoying a round of golf, at think the best way to explore a new place is on foot. I like to eat and drink as wine to collect from the Club Hunter Valley Golf Club Robyn Dunlop 3rd. Ball winners were: the ‘Ultimate 9’ golf course at well, so keeping active is a good way to balance that out. Professional Marcus. Richard Sunday 8th July Sue Peel, Julie Van Den Berg and Branxton. Congratulations to It is natural though, as a holiday progresses, to find yourself doing a little less Turnbull continued his recent The Weekly Comp has been Sharon Blackett. Nearest-the-Pins went Keith Anderson on winning exercise and a little bit more eating and drinking. This is especially the case if good form to finish runner up won by Chris Edwards from to Julie Van Den Berg on (3rd & 4th). his division and achieving the you are travelling a long distance in a car or on a plane, like I did in Western with 36 pts, with Geoff Jones Lachlan Peacock with Jodie Next week the ladies will play “Score of the Day”. A well Australia. In the last two days of my holiday I drove from Exmouth to Perth (in third with 35 pts. The Nearest Dunn 3rd Individual Stableford. done to all other winners and one day) and I spent a day wandering around Fremantle before getting the red the pins were all very Tuesday 10th July Garry Thursday 19th July Gerry Irwin eye flight back to Sydney and driving back home to the Hunter. placegetters impressive shots with the shot Hedges handles Tuesday handed in a solid round of 39 points to One thing about taking an extended break is how it can be getting back into Results 19-7-18 of the day going to Neil mornings cold best to win the win the Vets Stableford from Wayne your regular routine once you return home. Even if you have a job you love, it Stableford Jordan on the 4th, which Stableford event with a solid Barber on 37 and Steve Piggott with an can be hard picking up where you left off. (3 Club only event) finished only 30 cms behind 39 points from Geoff even Par 36 points. Ball winners were: I am lucky that my job keeps me physically active with outdoor fitness classes Div 1 Winner I Harris 32 pts the cup—so near to a hole in Sweetman in 2nd place on David Peel 35, Mark Barrow 35, Greg and Personal Training sessions. This meant that I arrived home from my holiday (SOD) R/u S Dunker 27 pts 3rd at Sunday lunch time and I was back at the park on Monday morning running one. Just as impressive was countback from Mark barrow Ireland 35, Ray Boyd 35, Ken Harris 34, B Turner 24 pts my 6am Boxing Class. I love the Boxing Classes but to say it was a shock to Peter Matthews’ shot on the after both had 37 point Steve Rawlings 33 and Grahame Div 2 Winner S Condran 27 my system would be an understatement. My body clock was still on WA time 9th, finishing only 37 cms returns. Ball winners were; Sheldon 33 c/b. Nearest-the-Pin went to pts R/u B Hain 26 pts (c/b) 3rd so even though I had still been getting up early while I was on holidays, I felt away. It is not often the two John Stewart 36, Kevin Graeme Flynn (4th). Next week the Vets R Hebbe 26 pts like it was 3am when my alarm went off, not 5am. NTPins can finish so close. Griffith v34, Lindsay Self 33, will play a 2 Person Ambrose. Ladies Winner R McCarthy It was easy to get back into the classes though, as they are at a regular time and Lee Heuston’s shot to the 11th, Gary Counsell 33, Michael Saturday 21st July Saturday's Medley place, and people were relying on me to be there. I was surprised though at how r/u M Hunt 20 pts 3rd J Harris with the pin at the very back Watson 33, Chris Taggart 33, Stableford had very few scores below or long it took me to get back into my usual running and horse riding routine. I had 19 pts left position finished only 106 Rick Turnchini 33, Shaun equal to Par with a great round of 40 not entered any of the upcoming dressage competitions and my next race is not NTPs Ladies R McCarthy cms away after tracking Duggan 32, David Peel 30, points to win A grade by Wayne Barber until September, so there seemed to be no urgency. On top of that, the cold Gents R Hebbe towards the pin before Col Bradley 30, Neville the standout, runner up went to David weather was dampening my usual enthusiasm for outdoor activities. Members draw - Not won spinning back—a great shot. Greenway v30, and Wayne Peel with 36, B Grade to the ever Eventually though the few kilos I had put on while I was away started to annoy Another favourable Winter’s me and I knew I had to do something about it. Tom Foster also deserves Barber 30 c/b. Nearest-the- improving Bohdi King with 37 points day for a round of golf. This got me thinking about hard it must be for other people to get back into their mention after hitting the best Pins went to Steve Abel (3rd) from Garhame Sheldon 35 and C Grade Today’s event proved to be a health and fitness routines after a break, so I have put together some tips to help shot to the difficult 13th. The 5 Mark Barrow (4th & 8th) and to John Barbour with 37 points from challenge for our players, as you get back on track whether you have been away or just gotten out of your skins initiative is on again Rick Turnchini (17th) Scott Jones 33. Ball winners were: the scores will attest. usual routine during the school holidays. where those players who enter Wednesday 11th July Ladies Angello Wood 35, Brad Burgess 34, Congratulations to Ivan Harris Have a plan for when you get back from your holiday. have 5 rounds in which to golf will resume this week Steve Piggott 34, Ben Bradley 33, on winning his division and Recognise that you are likely to find it hard when you return, so have a think record 3 good rounds—with with the 5th Round of the Golf Michael McNab 32, Luke O'Donnell 32, about it in advance and have something booked in. Whether it is a walk with achieving the “Score of the the best 4 players qualifying NSW Medal and Putting com- Tony Butler 31, John Stewart 30, friends or a PT session, just make sure it is something you will look forward to, Day” and a well done to all for the match play final, petition. Nathan Mudd 30 and Garry Hedges 29 write it in your diary and stick to it. other winners and placeget- playing off for many dollars Thursday 12th July The Vest c/b. Nearest-the-Pins went to David Peel Have a regular time and place to exercise. ters. Also, congratulations to in club vouchers. It is only Moneyball event has been (3rd) and Luke O'Donnell (10th & The sooner you can get back into a regular routine the easier it will be. It can be Ruth McCarthy on being $20 to enter—all players can won Ken Harris, Wayne 17th). Next week's event will be a an outdoor fitness class or a regular session at the gym, it is our habits (good nearest the pin (NTP) three(3) and bad) which define us and determine whether or not we achieve our goals. enter next week if they have Barber, Garry Hedges Medley Par. weeks in a row (Hat trick). Remember it will only get harder missed out—I am sure Mar- and Wayne Cowan 83 points, A reminder - Next week, 29 The longer you leave it the harder it will get. Other activities will fill the time cus won’t let you leave the from Ray Boyd, Wayne Berry, Jul 18, is our ‘Mid Year’ you used to set aside to exercise, or you will get out of the habit of getting up pro shop without the “Hard Darrell Preston and Mark lunch. As a ‘warm up’ for early to go for a walk or to a class. It is especially hard this time of year when it sell”. Barrow 77 points 2nd on lunch there will be a 9 hole Local sports is cold outside and dark. Accept that it is winter and plan ahead. Have the right Saturday, 21st 2018 countback. Ball comp: John clothes for exercising outside (the ladies in my 6am class all wear beanies and stableford event played, 8 SATURDAY COMP Stewart, Rex Talbot Chris gloves). One even admitted that she slept in her work out gear last week so she am for 8.30 am ‘Shotgun’ results kindly STABLEFORD Taggart and Graeme Flynn 77, wouldn’t have to get too cold getting dressed the next morning! start. 49 players Dave Fury, Geoff Sweetman, Exercise with like-minded people LN Bootes, Hon Sec sponsored A GRADE WINNER Eric Smith and Steve Piggott When I got back from holidays I was so pleased to hear the ladies in my class Branxton Golf Club Richard Barrington 35 ptsA 71, Dennis Watson, Ian say how glad they were to be back. Some of them had also been away during Saturday, 14th 2018 by ...... the end of June and July so there was a lot of catching up to be done. They had GRADE RUNNER UP Newell and Greg Ireland 66, STABLEFORD missed the exercise but I think they had missed each other’s company too! David Hollis 34 pts David Peel, Kevin Smith, Ken 47 players Start slowly A GRADE THIRD Springbett and Grahame A GRADE WINNER David Branxton & Don’t expect to do everything at once. Although remember you probably won’t Greg Noble 33 pts Sheldon 64, Dave Blackburn Hollis 39 pts have lost as much fitness or strength as you think, especially if you have been B GRADE WINNER and Steve Rawlings 63 & Ray A GRADE RUNNER UP- walking, swimming or cycling on your holiday. But even if all you did was lay David Kinch 38 pts Newton, Wayne Daryton and Vineyards Daryl Sheppard 36 pts on the beach, your body is resilient and will remember the exercise you were B GRADE RUNNER UP Ray Hodson 53. NTP's went to doing before you had your break. A GRADE THIRD Robert Miller 36 pts Ray Hodson (3rd) Graeme Have someone to help keep you accountable Peter Wilton 34 pts Real Estate B GRADE THIRD Flynn (4th and 17th) and When I realised I was struggling to get back on track I had a chat to my running B GRADE WINNER Noel Hughes 35 pts David Peel ( 8th). coach and asked for a new training program. I needed something to shock me Peter Mackenzie 39 pts C GRADE WINNER Saturday 14th July Early into action, but I also needed to know that I had a plan and someone was going B GRADE RUNNER UP Richard Alley 34 pts frosty conditions with some to check that I was sticking to it. Peter Maquet 33 pts c/b Set yourself a Goal C GRADE RUNNER UP tough pin placements led to B GRADE THIRD I find I am much more motivated to train if I have an event coming up. Work Col Hughes 33 pts very few players beating Par Murray Johanson 33 pts out what motivates you and set yourself a target. I have written previous articles C GRADE THIRD in the Medley Stableford. A C GRADE WINNER about how to set yourself SMART goals, you can find them on my website or Mick Lutovac 32 pts Grade went to Angello Wood Tom Lundy 40 pts send me an email. BALL COMP 31 pts on countback to playing C GRADE RUNNER UP NTP 2/11 P Mackenzie partner Troy Wallis after both Richard Turnbull 36 pts 207cm had 37 points, B Grade to C GRADE THIRD NTP 4 G Walsh 418cm Charlestown visitor Dylan Geoff Jones 35 pts NTP 9/18 R Miller 199cm Smith with 33 points on 12 Clift Street, What else is happening at Louise Cairns Fit for Life? BALL COMP 29 pts NTP 13 M Moylan 400cm countback to David Irwin and Summer bodies are made in Winter! So if you are starting to feel a bit NTP 2/11 L Heuston 106cm Branxton 2335 flabby around the middle or if you have the winter blues, come along and 5 Skins Qualifying Rd 2 – C Grade to Muree visitor NTP 4 N Jordan 30cm join in my 6am fitness classes at Miller Park Branxton. We exercise and Winner David Kinch 38 pts Andrew Grant with the NTP 9/18 P Mathews 37cm have fun! The Branxton Golf Course standout round of the day 41 NTP 13 T Foster 335cm Classes are held 6am Monday (Boxing), Tuesday (Cardio and Strength) was again the winner with points with club mate Glenn Only 3 players out of 47 and Thursday (Core and Strength). most players struggling to White taking 2nd with 34 players played better than their About Louise play to their handicap once points. Ball winners were: Louise Cairns is a Personal Trainer and Performance Coach based in handicap on a day where the again. Richard Barrington, Craig Sharp 36, David Peel 4938 3300 Branxton. Louise runs regular fitness classes in Branxton, as well as PT course was conducive to good representing the veterans from 36, Chris Holmes v35, Chris sessions in Branxton and Kurri Kurri. Call Louise on 0439 383478 if you scores although the pin the club, won A Grade with Edwards 35, Matt Killick 35, M: 0412 566 042 want to find out more or visit www.louisecairns.com.au positions were challenging. his 35 pts, just ahead of the Shawn Parish 34, Shannon Only 29 points was needed to M: 0414 757 826 consistent David Hollis with Attewell 34, Jill Ramsden 33,

Unfortunately there were (Junior) who scored a schooners and put their two no trophy Snapper to report record Junior high score bob’s worth in. as was expected. (65.5) with 2 Tailor, 1 Congratulations to the Fishing tragic Dave Bream and 1 Salmon. winners of the mid-year Delforce managed top The Beckett brothers raffle Cohen Miller, Joel points for the weekend continued their good form Platt and Rhoda Senior who (109.6) with his first weigh by near bagging out on big scored themselves some July Fishing in of 2018 with 10 tailor Bream on the wall after a nice fishing gear courtesy and 4 snapper. He was failed outside expedition of BCF at Rutherford. Club Report closely followed by Club under skipper Dean New members are still Secretary and close mate Mahony. welcome for $30 adult and The July Harrington trip Steve Nevin (109.5) who Our next trip is the August $50 family, just see the saw members stay up the skipped from boat to boat 10/11/12 which is an Open staff at the Tatts to sign you beach, in the 2 caravan over the two days and event so members can fish up. Any questions or parks or stay in rented weighed in a mixed bag of anywhere. Our next meet- enquiries please feel free to houses. The seas were a bit Flathead, Morwong, ing is Sunday 5th August at email questionable at times but Snapper, Teraglin, and a 3pm at the Tatts. Members [email protected] overall some nice quantities Pearl Perch. A special are encouraged to attend or call Nevo on of fish were caught. mention to Tom Fields and enjoy a few cheap 0457547478.

TAMARA AND GRAEME BALL RECEIVE THE LADBROKES BONUS CHEQUE OF $5400 AFTER BALKAN BABE'S GREAT WIN. Full details next edition Ѳ A nice feed of Tailor and Snapper caught by Dave and Rob Delforce Saturday Morning.

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