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MAY 2020 Vol 17 Issue 4

Relaunch and history of THE CREST

Shoalhaven Family History Society Inc. SELF ISOLATING DOESN’T MEAN ISOLATED

A SNIPPET OF HISTORY A bit of Wool Road history

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3 We are open..... Monday to Friday

Booderee – by Dannie & Matt Connolly

6 The Crest 22 Community Noticeboard History and Relaunch 24 What's On 10 Mucking In Keep on growing..... 30 Monthly Feature 15 Self Isolating Charcoal Burning doesn't mean isolated 36 Snippet of History 16 Photography construction Macro Photography 41 Schools Corner SPPS & VHS 18 Home Cooking Pizza Cob Loaf

1 Your Community Magazine A publication of Bay & Basin Community Financial Services Limited (ACN 105 756 063) A Committed Community Centric Company

Cntacto Details A Word from the Editor Contributions Please submit Welcome to our MAY edition your contributions for the of the magazine. June issue by 6th May 2020 and the July Issue by 3rd June to 2020 has been quite a roller coaster The Co-ordinator ride, with the bushfires at the start [email protected] of the year followed closely by the PO Box 180 floods and now this virus that has Sanctuary Point NSW 2540 Phone: 0478 607 829 knocked everything for a six. Advertising Enquiries 0478 607 829 Thankfully the has been [email protected] able to continue on to provide the information and news that the bay Distribution Enquiries 0478 607 829 [email protected] & basin has been used to. We will continue to produce and distribute Printing magazine is proudly printed and the magazine as close to normal as typeset locally by Sanctuary Point Printing, we can during these challenging phone 4443 0014 10,000 copies carefully distributed by Pinpoint times Advertising to homes and business in , Bewong, , Falls Creek, , St Georges We hope all our readers are managing Basin, Sanctuary Point, Old , Erowal Bay, Huskisson, Vincentia and . We are also to stay safe and well. supported by many local businesses. accepts no responsibility for any article, advertisment, This month’s must reads: notice or letter published. Any article, advertisement, notice or letter is published at the risk of the contributor, who accepts • Changes to the distribution of liability for any intended publication. All contributors forwarding articles, advertisements, notices or letters agree to indemnify the publisher and warrant that the material is accurate, not deceptive – Page 5 or misleading, in breach of copyright, defamatory or in breach of any other laws or regulations. reserves the right to edit • History of the Crest – Page 6 contributions and there is no guarantee all material submitted can be published. All views expressed in this publication are those of the contributors and are not necessarily those of • Life – Through My Lens – Page 16, Macro Photography • SeeChange 2020 going digital – Page 33. R egards and happy reading, Editor

2 Your Community Bank WE ARE OP EN..... Regular Hours 9.30am to 5pm Monday to Friday Please respect the social distancing rules whilst in the branch: 99 Practice good hand hygiene, sanitising station set up as you enter the branch. 99 Follow the floor markings and adhere to the one person per 4 square metre rule. 99 Don’t shake hands or exchange physical greetings We thank you and appreciate your co-operation As an essential service the branch remains open at present. Normal operating hours are in place and we have implemented social distancing rules as per government recommendations. These measures are put in place to safeguard both our customers and staff please respect them. Your Community Bank team is committed to providing the best possible service to our area even in these difficult times. Until next month, Keith Robinson – 4443 9825

3 Community Forums Basin Villages Forum basinvillagesforum.asn.au PO Box 37, St Georges Basin 2540

At this point in time (March) the Meriton St existing footpath leading along Island Point Community Centre has been closed and Forum Rd, from the Aveo Village to the shopping meetings are cancelled until further notice due to centre. Flaws in the footpath, with raised the Covid-19 virus. joints (some due to tree roots), weeds Keep up to date via Basin Villages Forum website growing out of joints, the steepness of some basinvillagesforum.asn.au. sections with tall weeds alongside as well as the narrowness of the path make it dangerous Residents at the March Forum meeting issues for walkers and those using motorised raised were: vehicles (gophers?). Mention made of early 1. Community Consultative Bodies from survey with residents on both sides of Island different areas working toward a combined Point Rd showing a clear preference for a meeting to discuss issues within their own path on the western side where the verge is area that could affect other areas. Residents flat, no trees and width that would permit at the meeting voted to join other area groups a shared pathway and one that would fit for discussion at a date to be decided. in with todays footpath standards as the 2. Discussions held re a request for a existing path clearly does not. moratorium to stop the clearing of bushland 4. Noted also that Councils Development around the state due to the extreme bushland Control Plan (N23) shows part of the highly losses with the recent catastrophic fires. valued Basin Village Green Reserve drawn These remnant bushlands were somehow on the DCP plan as CARPARK. Residents left after fires moved through; some have object to the plan showing such a scheme already been approved for development. It is and letter to Council stating this. believed that the moratorium would assist by 5. Due to closure of community hall and strict supplying an ecosystem to support insects, isolation requirements, committee members birds and wildlife that survived those recent will not meet but will continue to receive bushfires. Letters to be sent and petition Council notifications and updates supplied signed. on Forum website. 3. A representative from Aveo Village Enquiries 0424 100 051 expressed their residents concerns with the

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distribution has remained unchanged for many years now. Over recent times it has become increasingly expensive to maintain the way we do the without making the cost of our ads out of reach for local small businesses. So, decisions have been made to keep the advertising affordable and maintain a high level of coverage in the Bay & Basin area. From the June edition of mailbox deliveries will cease to: • Huskisson • Vincentia and • Woollamia Rural The new look distribution of includes • Digitally available online at https://aboutbayandbasin.org/about_1.html • Mailbox delivery to households in: • Sanctuary Point • Hyams Beach • Erowal Bay • Bayswood • • St Georges Basin and • Basin View There are also over 90 local businesses spread throughout the area that usually have the available in their businesses including, of course, Bendigo Bank Sanctuary Point. We will also look to increase this number when the current Coronavirus situation concludes. We believe these changes keeps the magazine viable and continuing to reach the residents of the Bay & Basin. Committee

5 The Crest and ran passenger services to and from Nowra. History of The Crest They built a community hall in 1913 that is now Huskisson Pictures. By the 1930’s the extended family were involved in all aspects of the Huskisson community. Cricket, tennis, fundraising, peace day celebrations, community dances, school functions and market stalls. Members of the family served on the local church committee helping to organise and run many fundraising events. They operated fishing vessels taking tourists around the bay. They helped build the first pedestrian crossing over Moona Moona Creek. They were community The Crest – a fishing boat that worked in and spirited in the true sense of the word. around for 60 years was successfully Jack Rossen was born in Schleswig on the th relaunched on 10 March 2020 into the pond Denmark-Germany border in 1871. He arrived in at the Jervis Maritime Museum after last exiting in 1891, leaving Denmark after the area the water in 1988. Crest has been undergoing was taken over by the Germans. Jack had no restoration since in 2013. desire to serve in the German Army. He came to Technically, Crest was originally a carvel built Christains Minde on Sussex Inlet, where Danish wooden vessel with a vertical stem and a counter Family, the Ellmoos, had already settled. Jack was stern, 27ft long with a small cabin open on the the son of Peter Rossen and Botilla Ellmoos. sides with canvas curtains and a well deck. A Jack kept up his fishing, initially out of Ulladulla wooden rudder, which it still has today, was Harbour. Jack became an Australian Citizen in originally operated by a tiller towards the stern. 1902 and married Stella Matilda Ninon Moon The deck was originally thick planks covered with from Ulladulla in 1903. wet canvas which shrank and was then painted. Jack and Stella moved to Huskisson where Jack There were no rails back or front. The first engine continued fishing. He commissioned a new was a single cylinder Frisco standard. Initially fishing vessel from Dent’s boatyard where it named Ninon the vessel is a now rare example was built by Freddie Dent and launched into of the earlier style seine net fishing boats that Currambene Creek in 1911. Jack named the were used in the Bay and Basin. The vessel has the boat ‘Ninon’ after his wife. The vessel fished the stories of many attached to its long life. waters of the bay and was involved in maritime Originally launched as ‘Ninon’, the vessel was built activities. His efforts for rescuing two sailors who for John (Jack) Rossen in 1911, by Freddie Dent in had capsized in a motor boat from the HMAS Dent’s Huskisson ship yard. Franklin was acknowledged by the Captain at the George Dent moved his family from the Georges RAN College. River area to Huskisson in 1861. George had been In the winter, when fishing in Jervis Bay was lean, a timber-getter for the boat-builders on the Jack and his crew would take the boats ‘Phyllis’ and Georges River in . Two of his sons, George ‘Ninon’ to St Georges Basin and anchor at Killarney Junior and Joseph became boat builders while (now Erowal Bay) for fishing. On Fridays they his other two sons, James and William worked would walk back to Huskisson to be with their in the bush finding and felling the right timber families and return on Sunday with provisions for for boatbuilding. Freddie Dent, Joseph’s younger the following week. brother, built Ninon in Joseph’s shipyard. Jack owned the boat from 1911 to his death in Realising they could not survive on ship building 1957. His wife, Stella, sold the Ninon to Norman alone the Dent’s diversified. They built and ran Dent for around 90 pounds. Norman changed the some of the earliest guest houses in Huskisson name to the Crest. 6 The Crest Relaunching The Crest Norman raised the deck, re-ribbed the hull, replaced everything from the sponson up and Some 100 people helped celebrate the added a ply deck covered with malthoid, a launch of the Crest. What a great sight to bituminous material. A 3 cylinder Lister diesel was see, the launch of this grand old lady. Built originally in 1911 by Frederick Dent, the installed by Alf Settree. Crest was relaunched after an eight year After Norman died in the 1960s Crest had several restoration. Bendigo Bank Sanctuary Point more owners; Jack Penson had it for about 10 was a willing major sponsor in this significant years moored in front of his house on Currambene historical restoration. This Jervis Bay fishing Creek, next to the site of the current Jervis Bay vessel having been on the water first in 1911 Maritime Museum. is now back on the water 109 years later. A He sold it to Alec Davies. Alec lived in Admiralty great day and a thank you to all who have Crescent, next to Anglesea and took the Crest to contributed. Wollongong and back. The Crest is now at anchor in the middle of Around 1975 Billy Fitzpatrick bought Alec’s the pond (photo below) and will be there for all to Huskisson house and the boat. Ron Johnson see for quite a while. helped with repairs and antifouling. The Crest was eventually bought by Len Wright and George Lowe who finally donated Crest to the Lady Denman in 1988. She floated around for a time but had to be pulled up into the Alf Settree boat shed, in the grounds of the Museum, after sinking. Most of the Crest crew onboard (photo below). Crest (Ninon) is the only survivor of the Dent’s smaller boats that we know of. For this reason and its cultural, social and technical significance to our local history it has been placed on the National Register of Historic Vessels and has been a restoration project at the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum. Volunteers started scraping the internal timbers in 2013, initially with funding support from the JBMM President Michael, Crest volunteer Ian, Australian National Maritime Museum. Sanctuary Point Bendigo Bank Manager Keith Subsequently substantial funding was provided and Geoffrey JBMM Board Member. by IMB and Bendigo Bank which has supported the replacement of internal timbers, a third of the outer planks, refurbished the motor, replaced electrics and provided a decent coat of paint. Crest floats proudly on the pond at the JBMM awaiting the next phase of her life while still collecting stories. If you have any stories of the Crest we would love to hear them. Drop in on a Tuesday after Another local community project the current pandemic is resolved, or email to sponsored by Bendigo Community Bank [email protected]. Sanctuary Point Branch

7 Bay & Basin Cancer Support Group Message from the President Dianne Dummett Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the stringent safety measures being implemented by our government and emergency departments our regular meeting place at The Country Club, StGB is unavailable and all support group functions will be postponed to future dates. To all our members and others who have been touched by cancer, should you like a friend to talk to during these worrying times, you are welcome to talk to us over the phone and perhaps, if not already a member, you may become a Basin Buddy and join us when our meetings recommence. Please contact Dianne on 4443 3275 or one of our long standing members Kate Williams on 4443 3394.

8 9 Community Garden MUCKING IN CLIFTON COMMUNITY FOOD GARDEN Hours: Tues and Sat 9 to 12; Fri 2 to 5pm – Contributed by Colleen McIntyre

“When the going gets tough..... the tough in our raised garden beds to minimise the get growing”. Many people are looking at possibility of disease or fungus attacking the their backyards in a different light as the crops. need to grow a few food items becomes Lemons, in coastal areas particularly, can apparent. be infected with the fungus disease lemon Many seed suppliers and seedling growers scab. Lemon scab attacks lemons at the time have had their supplies exhausted early of blossoming and petal fall, but the disease in the autumn. Saving seeds from your may not be noticed until the fruit develops favourite tomato or eggplant crop is always warty growths accompanied by scabby worthwhile and can provide seeds for the areas on the fruit skin, leaves and twigs. following year. The fruit is not damaged Many families, especially internally, but lemon scab with children have taken can cause severe fruit fall to sprouting seeds on in the young crop. The the sunny window sill treatment is to spray with and this practice provides a fungicide mixture with a highly nutritious foods for little white oil included as sandwiches and wraps a spreader, applied before and salads or garnish on all the petals have fallen casseroles. from the spring blossom. A second application is Mung beans, alfalfa and recommended around the time that all the radish are a few examples which can be petals have fallen from the spring blossom. grown in this way and are used when the (Note to self..... must do this in Spring as I can first pair of true leaves appear. They can be see some lumps on my lemons as I gaze out a replacement for lettuce and are deliciously the window through the rain). crunchy in your sandwich! Another pest to watch out for on the lemon Our wonderful gifted eggplants have tree is the citrus gall which shows up as produced a bounty of fruit over the a swelling on the branches of the trees. previous months and we have been able The affected branches must be pruned to share these with many people, as well as and burnt. It is actually illegal to have trees freezing, preserving and pickling. There have infected with galls and the Department of been many experiments on ways to use this Agriculture is capable of issuing fines for versatile and delicious fruit. infected trees. As time goes on we will use these beds Fresh lemons are wonderful to have on hand for the brassicas, cabbage, cauliflower and all year round so it should be the first thing broccoli. It is important to rotate the crops that is planted at a new home build, or a 10 Community Garden wonderful gift to a couple. Not only do they Lemon Delicious Pudding we were so fond provide a nurturing drink or accompaniment of from our childhood. to many savoury dishes, desserts and drinks Our huge new water tanks have arrived on as well, lemon is a good cleaning agent site, demolition of the former water storage around the home. is taking place and the Construction Team They are essential if you are lucky enough to have gone into planning mode for future actually sort a flathead out of all that water installation, each tank holding almost 1,000 we have on our doorstep. Grow a lemon mega litres of water. tree, there are dwarf varieties that do well in Garlic Spray recipe: Effective for aphids, pots too, and they are both useful and very cabbage moth caterpillars, and sudden decorative. But we must all watch out for the death to mosquitoes. Soak 90g (3oz) fungus and bugs which are willing to attack chopped garlic in 2 teaspoons of kerosene our backyard garden icon, in the yellow and or white oil for 48 hours. Dissolve 8g (1/4oz) gold! of oil-based soap in a little hot water, add There is No Lemon Butter, our fundraiser more water to 500ml (1 pint) and add to the mornings have been suspended for the garlic mixture. Use 1 part garlic solution to 99 present time, just as the fruit is beginning to parts water. The mixture should be strained, ripen, so dear readers, the writer will have to stored in a container, becoming stronger find Grandma’s Recipe Book and make the after a few weeks. Happy growing.....

11 12 13 14 Family History Shoalhaven Family History Society Inc. Self-Isolating Doesn’t Mean Isolated Here we are in May 2020, a time we won’t ever bring you great satisfaction and can work both forget, and hopefully it will be over soon. As we ways when you need a favour in return. self isolate at home, this is a great opportunity to You can sort the hundreds of photos on your hard catch up on your family history. drive, or scan onto your hard drive the hundreds We all have a folder filled with printed articles of photos sitting in shoe boxes in your wardrobe. found in newspapers, books, or online which Maybe spend some time writing on the back of we haven’t yet typed into our family history the photos the names of the people, places and programme. Now is the time to do it, to tidy up occasions pictured. our files, whether hard copy or on our computers. Keep in touch with your family history contacts Check your local library to see what their online by email to check on their progress with your offerings are in these unusual circumstances; free shared interests, they could have broken down a e-book, free access to subscription sites? – maybe brick wall but been too busy to let you know. – and all you need is your library card. This same So don’t feel isolated, there are many ways to library card will give you access to collections keep in touch and use this opportunity to do all held by NSW State Library and the National the jobs you’ve been promising yourself to get Library of Australia; British newspapers being around to. the stand-out. Log into NSW State Archives website and watch Our research library at The Old School, a free webinar whenever you feel like; these are 888 Road, Pyree, is closed until extremely informative and interesting and there further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is always something new to learn, regardless of but we will re-open as soon as we are given your years of experience or if you are a beginner. permission and hope to see all of our members returning, filled with new knowledge and renewed Join an online forum such as Rootschat to ask enthusiasm, and new members coming along to questions of the people who live in the area of start their journey with help from our volunteers. your research who have access to records you won’t find anywhere else. If you have access to Our Facebook page will keep you up to date with a database at home, offer to do lookups, it will what’s happening.

15 Photography Life - Through My Lens by Corinne Le Gall Check out Life - Through My Lens @ CorinneLeGallPhotography Macro Photography A world of its own – Macro Photography brings to the viewer a photograph of a subject so small that most times the eye might not see it at a glance but the lens picks it up with the greatest clarity and detail. Depending on your budget, a dedicated macro lens is your best accessory, but not everyone has the means to achieve that. Alternatives do exist, such as extension tubes, close-up filters and reversing-lens technique, but be aware that light is diminished the closer you are to your subject, as such, an external light source is also required in these cases. The best light source being a ring-light that illuminates the subject evenly but does not over/under power it by either insufficient or flooding light resulting in under/over exposure. With a dedicated macro-lens, most times, you don’t need to be as close to your subject, but a soft, subdued light will also not go astray. For the minutest detail, the camera and lens should be set on manual focus, on a tripod, so a good set of eyes is a necessity. Any movement will be picked up, such as the lightest of breeze moving the subject – hence another piece of equipment such as a clamp to secure your subject in relative position to your lens (example being a flower or spider web) – not a living animal such as a small spider or bug. Rails attached to your tripod are also available where the camera/lens combination can be moved on a horizontal plane relative to the subject for a once-off manual focus. Some of the macro-shots that you might see are just so perfect in their depth-of-field (focussed from front to back in the photograph). In order to achieve that, the subject is photographed in ‘cross-sections’ from front to back and then through special software, stacked together to form one very clear shot. Next issue: Fish-eye Photography

16 17 Home Cooking Pizza Cob Loaf courtesy of Australian Home Cooks Spoil yourself at home with this tasty treat Ingredients garlic 2 tbspoons tomato paste 1/2 an onion 250ml sour cream 18 slices chorizo pepperoni handful grated tasty 6 cherry tomatoes (halved) handful pizza cheese handful BBQ chicken handful parmesan cheese handful diced bacon shallots to serve 3/4 green capsicum

Method 1. Preheat oven to 200°C. 2. Lop the top off your cob and scoop out the middle. 3. Spray cob with canola oil and bake in the oven for 20 minutes or until desired crunchyness. 4. While cob is in the oven, slice up cob lid and insides, place on tray and drizzle with oil and sprinkle with herbs. Also place 6 slices of chorizo and cherry tomatoes on tray with bread. When cob is finished put into oven and bake until desired crunchyness 5. In a saucepan or high sided pan/wok, heat oil and fry off garlic. Add onions, capsicum, bacon, chorizo and chicken. Cook for about 5-10 minutes. Add tomato paste, sour cream and cheese and stir till cheese is melted. Stir in cherry tomatoes. Adjust as needed. 6. Put cob on a plate, pour in sauce and top with chopped toasted chorizo and shallots. Serve bread on side. 18 Community Support

Donation to Cancer Centre Accommodation Building Nowra

Code C Bay & Basin has been running in the committee ideas to things that would assist the Sanctuary Point area for approximately accommodation building, that funds simply were 14 years. The priority for the Code C Bay & not there for. Basin committee is to continue to provide the February saw a very surprised and excited Jarrod Cancer Council with the funds to keep the Bay Flynn take delivery of their first electronic lift chair & Basin Cancer Patient Transport Bus on the for their reading room in the accommodation road, providing transport to and from medical appointments for cancer patients in the Bay and building. These chairs are not cheap, in excess Basin area. of $3,000, and Code C Bay and Basin committee were very happy to provide the first chair for Each year Code C Bay & Basin hold an annual patients to use. Auction and Raffles Fundraising Night at The Country Club St Georges Basin with 2019 being The Code C Bay and Basin Committee, Kerri another successful fundraising year, with an Sedman, Verlie Fitzgerald and Wendy Hay would “At the Movies “theme. It was wonderful to see like to say “Thank You” to all that have supported many embrace the evening dressing in some them in their fundraising efforts. amazing costumes. People travelled from as far The Bay and Basin Cancer Patients Transport Bus as Newcastle and to attend the event is driven by some very generous local volunteer showing just how far the good word of Code C’s drivers. work has travelled. If you have a day a month that you could 2019 was a hard year for fundraising groups with donate to this wonderful cause contact Jarrod many businesses not being able to support them due to the on-flow effects of the drought. The Flynn on (02) 4223 0215 or 0400 521 036 or committee would like to extend their sincere email [email protected]. gratitude to all the local business and members Cancer does not discriminate; we are all affected of the public who supported them again with the directly or indirectly and we need to continue 2019 Code C Fundraiser. the fight for a cure. The success of our 2019 function enabled Code C Bay and Basin to provide the Cancer Council with $16,600 to fully fund another year of running the Bay & Basin Cancer Patient Transport Bus allowing patients to utilise this service for FREE. It also allowed Code C Bay and Basin to discuss with Jarrod Flynn, Accommodation and Support Services Co-Ordinator at the Shoalhaven Cancer Care Centre on what patients may need to make their stay a little easier. 2018 saw Code C Bay and Basin donating enough linen for 6 beds to refurbish three rooms at the accommodation centre and much needed Jarrod Flynn and Cancer Patient, Sylvia from new kitchen appliances. Jarrod again gave the trying out the new chair. 19 BAY & BASIN COMMUNITY RESOURCES (BBCR)

A special partnership project undertaken between BBCR Bay & Basin Men’s Shed and HMAS Creswell. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL COLLEGE (RANC)

The RANC evolved into an autonomous Command similar to Recruit School in HMAS Cerberus. Commanding Officer RANC will be a resident unit within HMAS Creswell under the Director, Training Authority Leadership and Management (DTA-ITLM). This change to the RANC structure is the most significant development since HMAS Creswell was commissioned in 1958. It will enable the RANC to better meet the demands of our growing Navy into the future and meet the need for an agile, innovative and contemporary training structure. In the new RANC structure the Deputy Director (DDTA-ITLM) and Training Commander functions have been split and will be better resourced to achieve this most important training output for our new entry officers. Commander Moses Raudino, thanked Wayne and Brad Wayne Grumley BBCR (the craftsman) and Commander Moses Raudino the for their contribution, supported by the BBCR Bay & Basin last Training Commander RANC Men’s Shed in establishing the new artefact symbolising the RANC ‘weight’, they helped to produce a wonderful object from the timber sourced from the original Royal Australian Naval College (RANC) buildings. As the representation of the mantle of Command for the RANC the ‘weight’ is intended to be transitioned from outgoing CO to incoming CO in perpetuity. Brad and Wayne attended the very first occasion where the inaugural CO RANC L to R: Brad Slaughter BBCR; Captain Tony Mullan Director Navy Training from Training Force accepted the ‘weight’ Headquarters; Commander David Shirvington the First Commanding Officer RANC; Commander from Commander Moses Moses Raudino the last Training Commander RANC and Deputy Director TA-ITLM; Captain Raudino as the last Training Warren Bairstow CSC Commanding Officer HMAS Creswell and Director Training Authority Commander RANC. Leadership and Management; and Wayne Grumley BBCR (the craftsman). 20 MARINE RESCUE JERVIS BAY Help when RETRACTION disaster Jervis Bay In A Day strikes Paddle Challenge Become a Red Cross volunteer and support your community I have to advise that in view of the Help your local community in times of disaster, corona virus outbreak and the associated such as bushfires, floods, earthquakes or restrictions put in place, the Jervis Bay In storms. Red Cross helps during a disaster, holds A Day Paddle Challenge advertised in last training sessions so that you gain hands-on months issue of the magazine skills and get to meet like-minded people who has been postponed for approximately 12 want to make a difference at times of need. months. Updates on this exciting event will If you want to give back and strengthen your be announced further down the track. community against disasters, visit volunteering. Also, we wish to reassure all members redcross.org.au. of the boating public that Marine Rescue VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Jervis Bay is still operational and fully committed to keeping all who use our Prepare: Assist communities to prepare and plan in case of a disaster. Respond: Provide local waters safe. In the meantime personal support, information and practical please follow all official health advice and help during a disaster. Recover: After an instructions and stay safe. emergency, we work with people and Ron Walsh – Publicity Officer communities on their journey to recovery. Contact Elizabeth on 0438 258 572 to find out about Volunteer Training Sessions to be held in your local area. Are you Prepared for a Disaster? Emergencies can strike at any time, anywhere and without warning. The good news is, it's easy to protect yourself, the people you love and the things you value most – visit redcross.org.au/prepare DOWNLOAD the GET PREPARED APP

21 noticeboard We are looking for Volunteer bus drivers. Volunteer Drivers we need you! LR Drivers Licence required. One morning or afternoon per month. Join our valued team in either Ulladulla or

community Call Michelle at Basin View Masonic Nowra. Roles include bus assistants, car drivers and bus drivers. We are particularly Village on 4443 5034 in need of drivers with an LR Class or higher licence, and those with a C licence willing to take clients to Sydney/Wollongong for Shoalhaven Transition a worldwide appointments. We supply uniforms, training grassroots movement, transitioning and reimbursement for travel expenses communities towards a more sustainable to and from work. We encourage and future. Meets monthly 4443 7775 support Aboriginal people and people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse groups to apply for this position. Call Karen in JERVIS BAY and Ulladulla 4454 0840 or Peta in Nowra DISTRICTS MEALS on 4423 6044. WHEELS Inc. We need more volunteers to help prepare meals in the kitchen and to deliver those VOLUNTEERS NEEDED meals to our clients in the Jervis Bay and Do you have a particular interest Districts Meals on Wheels. Have you got and would like to help Basin View some spare hours for: washing up, preparing Masonic Village? We need your vegetables, cooking meals, cooking help with activities such as bus desserts, serving up, delivering or driving. trips, craft, exercise and various We are based in Huskisson and deliver to entertainment events. Just a few hours of the local area of Bay and Basin. your time occasionally will put a smile on the Contact Eric on 0402 792 922. faces of our residents. Contact Michelle or Jo on 4443 5034 during office hours. CROSSROADS RURAL FIRE BRIGADE ST GEORGES BASIN next door to Leisure Centre, Vincentia VIEW CLUB We are seeking community minded Want to meet women in volunteers. Contact our Captain on the area? Make friends 0413 196 667 and have fun by coming along to the St Georges Basin View Club. We are an arm of The Smith Family helping disadvantaged Aussie kids with their education. Meeting 3rd Friday of the month for lunch - 10.30am @ The Country Club – StGB Function Room. Ph Sue 4443 7931 or 0430 375 053.

BECOME A MEMBER AND HELP ANIMALS JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN YOUR LOCAL AREA. We are looking for passionate animal lovers to join our Volunteer Help Desk dedicated group of volunteers to help care We are available to help to answer your for local pets in need, and assist with our questions at The Office of the Federal various community support and desexing Member for Gilmore, Suite 3, 59 Junction programs. Contact AWL NSW Shoalhaven St, Nowra (around corner from PO). For Branch on 0429 429 885 or email more info or to join the local J.P. Branch [email protected]. call Brenda 0407 065 031 You can also find us on

22 community noticeboard L ocal Markets Hall for Hire Do you need a venue for meetings, Berry Country Fair 4464 1476 1st Sun (except Feb held activities, classes or a special event? 2nd Sun), Berry Showground, Alexandra St The St Georges Basin Community Centre on Meriton Street has a Huskisson Markets 0409 740 704 (BH) 2nd Sun large hall for hire with great facilities. Huskisson Sports Ground The hall has a big dance floor, stage, commercial kitchen, tables, chairs Jervis Bay Maritime Museum Markets 1st Sat 3-7pm and air conditioning. Contact Pam on Twilight Market Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, Dent St, 0435 852 960 or sgbccmc@gmail. Huskisson Ph 4441 5676 e: [email protected] com for more info. We are also looking for volunteers to Nowra Greyhound Track 4421 2332 4th Sun Albatross help manage the Centre. If you can Rd, Nowra spare 2 hours a month we'd love to hear from you. Milton Village Showground Markets 1st Sat PLUS Call Marilyn on 0400 008 117 or Long Weekends & Easter Milton Showgrounds, Croobyar Rd, Tanya on 0434 462 370. Milton [email protected] Pyree Village Arts & Craft Markets 4443 7312 4th Sun VOLUNTEERS WANTED Shoalhaven Potters Workshop, Greenwell Pt Rd, Pyree The Wandandian Progress Hall Royal Coastal Patrol Market Ulladulla 4455 3403 2nd is owned by members of the Local Sun Ulladulla Harbour & Wharf, Wason St, Ulladulla community. We are looking for Volunteers to assist with the week Sussex Inlet Flea Market 4441 1546 2nd Sat Uniting to week general cleaning of the Hall Church Hall, Jacobs Dr, Sussex Inlet and maintenance of the surrounding grounds. We are fully accredited by Tomerong Village Market 0401 070 709 email: Centrelink to offer up to 15 hours per [email protected] 3rd Sat School of Arts, week per person under the Mutual Obligation Requirements Scheme Hawken Rd, Tomerong www.tomeronghall.com (colloquially know as Work for the Dole!!). The work would suit seniors, Update Your Listing especially a couple, looking to cover their volunteer hours obligations. Are Your ...What’s On... Details Incorrect or For further information contact Sue Out of Date? Call 0478 607 829 and let us know Campbell on 0403 006 217. or email your updated information to “What’s On” at [email protected]

R ural Fire Services In an Emergency Call 000 We have 7 Brigades over two groups in our area. F ire Control 4424 4424 Basin View, Crossroads, Huskisson, Basin View Denise Fabreschi 0412 780 899 St Georges Basin, Sussex Inlet, Crossroads Captain 0413 196 667 Tomerong and Wandandian. Huskisson Cpt Joey Revesz 0417 664 671 New members always welcome. St Georges Basin Cpt Michelle Thornley 0427 288 340 Sussex Inlet Adam Harris 0409 326 660 EMERGENCY Tomerong Doug Schutz 4443 4600 CALL 000 Wandandian Dennis Stannard 0458 200 282 23 What’s On...What’s On...What’s On...What’s On...What’s On...What’s On Jervis Bay Bridge Club Huskisson Community Centre, W eekly Meetings Dent St, Huskisson Fri 9.30am All Bridge players 1st St Georges Basin Scout Group Tasman Rd Scout welcome Ph 4441 5122 or 4422 1381 Hall, SGB Tue 5pm Joey Scouts; 6.30pm Cub Scouts Wed Jervis Bay Community & Men's Shed Fri 9am-12pm 6pm Scouts Mon 6.30pm Venturers Paula 0400 674 525 New members welcome both men & women Al Anon - Huskisson Thu 10am Huskisson Community Colin Loudon 0412 347 322 Centre Dent Street, Huskisson Jervis Bay & Districts Activities Group Fri 9am-1pm Basin Radio Controlled Yacht Group Jetty at Island Men & Women welcome Colin Loudon 0412 347 322 Pt Rd, SGB Tue & Sat 10.30am Racing starts 11am Fred Jervis Bay Hi-Lo Slimmers Community Ctr, 21 Meriton 4443 2070 or Kevin 0418 422 763 St, SGB Wed 2.30-3.30pm Judi Castle 4443 6135 Bay & Basin Bombers Junior AFL Club Leisure Centre, Jervis Bay Paddle Group weekly paddle group for kayakers Wood Rd, Vincentia Thu 4.30-5.30pm Girls & Boys aged check Jervis Bay Paddle Group page for schedule 6-17 Jeff 0420 749 402 or Chris 0403 047 659 Jervis Bay Physical Culture Club Classes held www.bombers.net.au Vincentia Primary School & StGB Community Hall Bay & Basin Bush Potters 48 Edmund St, Sanctuary www.jervisbayphysie.com.au e: jervisbayphysie@gmail. Point Mon 9am-2pm Call in and have a look com Jaclyn 0422 458 485 or Amie 0405 438 057 Beginners Belly Dance Class Huskisson Community Jervis Bay Wobbegongs Winter Swimming Club Centre Wed 4.30-5.30pm Ph Mimi 0416 204 801 Huskisson Beach south end Racing season Sun 8.30am between 1st May & 30th Sept each year Swim & Chinwag Belly Fit Huskisson Community Centre Tue 4.30-5.30pm Mon-Fri 7.30am to 8am all year long The Club is affiliated Ph Mimi 0416 204 801 with the Winter Swimming Assoc. of Aust Inc Collingwood Reserve Park Care Group meet in John 0412 053 859 or Warren 0412 578 381 reserve opposite Basin View Volunteer Rural Fire Brigade Line Dancing Tue 10am-1pm SGB Community Hall, Shed Mon 8.30am Adele 4443 6034 Meriton St, StGB Mon 6-8.30pm Dancing Bomaderry RSL Club Wed 7pm permanent Bowling Club Wed 10am-1pm Bomaderry Community Hall dance floor R'n'R, swing, country 2 step, rockabilly Born to Thurs 6-8pm StGB Community Hall Laurel 4441 6383 Boogie 0409 998 868 Mannahouse Youth Fri 7pm St Georges Basin Falls Creek Ladies Craft Fri 9.30-12pm during school Community Centre, 21 Meriton St, StGB term in local homes Bring along what you’re working on www.mannahouseyouth.org Plenty of help with all sorts of craft All welcome MSCARC Inc. (Mid South Coast Amateur Radio Club Inc.) Sandra 4447 8312 Wed from 7.30-9.30pm on air New members always Friendly 500 Card Group Mon 1.15-3.30pm St welcome Ken 4403 0599 Georges Basin Country Club Derek 0421 163 576 Nia Movement to Music StGB Community Hall, Meriton Friendship Club Husky Church Op Shop, 53 Hawke St St Wed 9.30-10.30am; Fri 9-10am All welcome Thu 9.30-11.30am All welcome. Kerri 0417 312 290 HuskiDrumming Facilitated djembe drumming circle Nowra Healing Rooms 12 Tarawara St, Bomaderry Huskisson Community Centre Sat 10.30am All welcome Open Wed 10am-12pm, Thu 7-9pm e: [email protected] 0459 046 084 No appointment necessary & no charge Huskisson Girl Guides During school terms Huskisson www.healingrooms.com.au Scout/Guide Hall, Kiola St (near Bowling Club) Tue Nowra Quilters Community Centre, 7 Hood 5-6.30pm Junior Guides 6-9yrs Wed 4.30-6.30pm Guides Cl, Nth Nowra Tue 9am-1pm New members welcome & Senior Guides 10-16 yrs Parents and Friends Support e: [email protected] Group 3rd Wed Liesel Turnbull 4443 6007/0402 837 777 Nowra Town Band 174 Kinghorne St, Nowra Mon Husky Social Carpet Bowls Huskisson Community 5.30-6.30pm for Training Band & 7-9pm for senior practice Centre Mon 9am-1.30pm morning tea provided bring Private lessons available in brass and percussion your lunch Ph 0427 275 552 or 0421 480 702 Hall 4422 0807 or Ross 4443 5745/0488 056 196 JB Walkers and Talkers Meet Holden St Boat Ramp, Raised Voices Community Choir SATB Tomerong Vincentia Pram friendly walking group Fri 10.30am School of Arts Tue 7.30pm New Members welcome e: [email protected] Ph Christine 4443 7665

24 What’s On...What’s On...What’s On...What’s On...What’s On...What’s On S anctuary Point Chess Mate Open to all players of all St Georges Basin SES Unit Tasman Rd, St Georges levels, just turn up and play Tue 4-7pm The Country Club Basin Wed 6.30pm StGB Ph 0427 838 049 Sussex Inlet/Shoalhaven Square Dance Sanctuary Point MyTime A support group for parents Wandandian Community Ctr, Princes H’way 7-10pm and carers of children 0-16 years with a disability Thu 4443 4436 9.30-11.30am during school term free group Ph Table Tennis Scout Hall, Tasman Rd, SGB Wed 2-4pm Christine 4443 0520 Ron 4441 5723 Scottish Country Dancing Thu 2pm-3.30pm Tennis Huskisson Owen St, Huskisson Casual bookings Senior Citizens Hall, Berry St, Nowra Tue 7.30-9.30pm Wendy 4441 7985 Adult Mixed Group Mon PM & Thu AM Presbyterian Church Hall, Kinghorne St, Nowra Ph June Grippling 4443 3065 or John Hayward 4441 6979 Beginners welcome Heather 4441 5496 Ladies Tue AM Ph Jan Chappelow 4441 6417 Mixed Seniors Community Dancercise Class Huskisson Comp Wed night Ph Jenny Durante 4441 5766 Coaching Community Centre Thu 12.30pm available Lou Durante 0428 210 893 Shoalhaven Concert Band Junior, Concert and Tennis The Country Club, St Georges Basin Social Mon Stage band Nowra School of Arts Annex, Berry St Nowra 6-9pm & Thu 9am-1pm Comps Tue or Wed 6-9pm Tue 6-9.30pm Richard 0417 462 885 or see Ph 4443 0666 thecountryclub.com.au/sport/tennis/ S hoalhaven Ex-Servicemans Dance Club 157 Ukulele/Guitar - Learn to Play The Phoenix Group Junction St, Nowra Wed 7.30-10pm Social dancing inc. The Country Club Vincentia Thu 1-3.30pm No experience modern ballroom, new vogue, sequence, latin, rock n roll necessary Beginners welcome from 12.30pm to practice visitors welcome Ph Stuart 0413 051 003 chords & music Ph Sandra 4443 2073 S hoalhaven Rock N Roll Group SGB Country Club Vincentia Bush Care Group Tue 9am - 12 noon Mon 7pm John 0411 120 042 or Linda 4443 3364 Ph 0418 460 594 www.shoalhavenrockandroll.org.au Sing Australia, Vincentia Community Singing Group F ortnightly Meetings Jervis Bay Baptist Church, The Wool Rd, Vincentia Thu 7-9pm New members welcome Jenny 4441 7713 Bay & Basin Camera Club Vincentia Community Hall, rear www.singaustralia.com.au Coles carpark 2nd & 4th Tues 7.30-9.30pm Pam 0401 043 833 Smith Bay Bushcare Group Basin View Fri for 2-3 hours Fran 4443 6324 Shoalhaven Masonic Widows Association Basin View Masonic Village Hall, 130 The Wool Rd 2nd Mon Social Scrabble Thu 1-4pm Auditorium at The Country 10am 4441 0436 or 4441 1644 Club, StGB Ph Margaret 0437 708 672 or 4441 5531 / Emily 0438 208 754 / Helene 0418 601 451 Wool Road Spinners & Weavers Jervis Bay Baptist Church classroom, behind church, cnr The Wool Rd & St St Georges Basin Health & Com Transport Serv George Ave, Vincentia 1st & 3rd Thu 9.30am-1pm

Mon & Wed Local Health Tue, Thu & Fri Nowra Area Health Karen 4443 5239 4423 6044 for bookings Mon-Fri 9am-12pm, 1-3pm St Georges Basin Senior Citizens Walking Group St Georges Basin Little Athletics Sports Grounds, Alternate Fridays 9am onwards, ph Helen 0412 215 855, Larmer Ave, Sanctuary Point Registration Ph Tracy Colleen 0423 233 594 0423 846 194 or Michelle 0412 656 206 St Peter's Bushwalking Group Every 2nd Sat for easy St Georges Basin Senior Citizens Club to medium walks of around 7-10kms All welcome Mon 9am-12 noon Art (Painting), StGB Comm. Centre, 21 Ken 4441 5967 Meriton St, StGB Ph Margaret 4443 6031 Thu from 9am Bowls-Darts-Euchre, The Country Club – St The Country Club Seniors Computer & Technology Club The Country Club – St Georges Basin, Paradise Georges Basin Ph Margaret 4443 6031 Beach Rd, Sanct Pt 2nd & 4th Mon with 2 meetings Alternate Fri 9am onwards Walking Group, per day 9.30-11.30am & 12.30-2.30pm Ph Helen 0412 215 855, Colleen 0423 233 594 Ph John 0404 291 540 or Warren 0458 433 170

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Country Labor – Jervis Bay/SGB Branch 4th Wed Monthly Meetings 7pm Vincentia Public Halll Deb Shapira Secretary 0409 1st St Georges Basin Scout Group Meetings 1st Mon 021 714 or email [email protected] 6.30pm Tasman Rd Scout Hall, SGB Paula 0400 674 525 Crossroads Rural Fire Brigade Fire Station, The Wool Amnesty International Huskisson Community Centre Rd, Vincentia 1st Tue 6.30pm Cpt. 0413 196 667 3rd Wed 5.45pm [email protected] CAW of NSW Jervis Bay Evening Branch Vincentia Association of Independent Retirees-AIR Bomaderry Golf Club, Murray St 2nd Tue 6pm dinner, 7pm meeting Bowling Club, Meroo Rd, Bomaderry 2nd Tue 10am Pres. Shirley Gatti 4441 7421 or 0410 519 839 Peter Moate 4448 7788 e: [email protected] Basin Baptist Church 165 The Wool Rd, SGB 2nd Mon Garden Club of Jervis Bay & District Inc. Community Ladies Craft Group 9.30am Marion Atkins 4443 6088 Centre, Meriton St, SGB 4th Thurs 2pm Shirley Gatti Basin Business Forum every 2nd Tues 8-9.30am 4441 7421 or 0410 519 839 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] or Honey Beez Gardeners Group 3rd Tues 11.30am Basin View Daylight Lodge No.1015 (now Vincentia Community Hall (behind Coles carpark) consolidated with Lodge Milton No. 63) Milton Masonic Lauren 4443 5946

Centre, 128 Princes Hwy, Milton 2nd Mon 6pm Huskisson Laurel Club of Legacy 2nd Tues 11.30am M/Ship & other enquiries Anthony Eden 4443 6473 Lunch at Huskisson RSL Club then meeting All War Basin View Rural Fire Service Fire Station 3rd Fri Widows welcome Eti Asplin 0407 299 962 6.30pm Jan 4443 4660 Huskisson RSL Sub Branch 2nd Thurs 7.30pm Sec

Bay & Basin Boomerang Bags 1st Wed 10am-2pm Don Handley 4443 6421 Huskisson Community Centre (bring plate for shared lunch) sewing and non sewing activities to socialise over Jude Huskisson Rural Fire Service 2nd Tue 7pm Joey 4443 7775 Revesz 0417 664 671 Bay & Basin Brew Club 2nd Fri 7pm at alternate Jervis Bay & Basin CWA Huskisson Community Centre, locations Matt 0413 172 757 Dent St 3rd Tue 10.30am Every other Tue 10am call in for Bay & Basin Cancer Support Group Venue Room, SGB cuppa & chat Visitors welcome Pres. Jann Kalff Country Club 2nd Thu 10am-12pm Dianne 4443 3275 4441 8437 or 0427 962 119 or email Bay & Basin Cricket Club Meetings held 2nd Tue 7pm [email protected] St Georges Basin Country Club Ph Chris 0403 113 362 Jervis Bay & Districts Combined Probus Club Inc. Bay & Basin Multicultural Support Group Community SGB Country Club, Function Room 4th Thu 10am-12pm Centre, Meriton St, SGB 1st Thu 11am-1pm Zaga Tkulja Pres. Eddie 0413 838 992; Sec. Sylvia Browne 4441 7969 4229 2755 or Anu Mehta 4422 5933 Jervis Bay Divers Club Club Husky, 336 Huskisson Rd, Bay & Basin Speakers Vincentia Golf Club 4th Mon 7pm Huskisson Last Wed 7pm 4441 6232 Learn to speak in public free lessons John 0407 743 559 Jervis Bay Lions Club Vincentia Golf Club 2nd Wed Bay & Basin War Widows SGB Country Club 4th Mon 6.30pm for 7pm start Pres. Jeff Thomas 0417 772 262; 10.30am Eti Asplin 0407 299 962 Sec. Debbie Stewart 0406 378 205 Bay & Basin Writers Group The Country Club - Jervis Bay Probus Club Inc. Vincentia Golf Club 3rd Vincentia, 49 Murray St, Vincentia 1st Wed 1-4pm Mon 10am Ian Collins 0424 292 625 Bring pen and paper or your electronic All Welcome Jervis Bay Triathlon Club Inc. Usually Iluka, Booderee device Pat Lucock 0405 325 235 National Park Group Training Day 3rd Sun 8am All Bloomers & Buds Social Gardening Group welcome including juniors Pres. Tony Lim 0411 052 746 Inc. Community Centre, Dent St, Huskisson Last Wed [email protected] 9.30am Ph 0458 830 420 Justice of the Peace Assoc NSW Shoalhaven Clifton Community Food Garden 2nd Wed at 'The Hut' in the garden 4.30pm All members welcome Ph Branch Bomaderry Bowling Club, Meroo St 1st Mon Julianne 0468 423 963 1pm Visitors most welcome Brenda 0407 065 031

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M arine Rescue Jervis Bay - VMR 209 Huskisson S hoalhaven Orchid Society 3rd Mon (except Jan) Basin, Voyager Park, Currambene St, Huskisson 3rd Mon 7pm Bomaderry Community Centre, 17-19 Birriley St, 7pm www.marinerescuejervisbay.org.au/ 4441 5433 Bomaderry Visitors welcome 0419 241 177 N ational Servicemen’s Assoc., Shoalhaven Sub-Branch Shoalhaven Philatelic Society 2nd Mon 7pm Nowra Rotating meetings on 4th Sun Ulladulla Ex-Servos Club Bowling Club, Osborne St, Nowra John 4421 4624 0930 for 1000hrs start Nowra Ex-Servos Club 0930 for Shoalhaven Prostate Cancer Support Group 4th Thu 1000hrs start Sussex Inlet RSL Club 1000 for 1030hrs 10am-12pm Bomaderry Bowling Club Leigh Bowman start Jim Reid 4421 2886 0413 131 781 email: [email protected] N owra & Districts Totally & Permanently Incapacitated (TPI) Social Welfare Club Shoalhaven Scout Fellowship 3rd Sun David Ravell 3rd Tue 11am Nowra Ex-Servos Club Function Room 4441 8659 Jack 4443 3448/0402 584 041 or Leanne 4443 4038 Shoalhaven Parkinsons Support Group Nowra Nowra Legacy Group 66 Bridge Rd, Nowra 1st Mon (Shoal. Shakers) 1st Wed 10am-12pm Masonic Hall, (except January) 10am 4423 1795 or 0409 981 663 Moss St, Nowra Betty Coulton 4442 1475 NSW Transport Authorities Retired Employees Assoc Shoalhaven Transition 1st Tue Jude Deane 4443 7775 Nowra Bowling Club, cnr Osbourne & Junction St 2nd Thu or [email protected] 10am for 10.30am start Pres. Bob 4421 5265 or Sec Aileen St Georges Basin Probus Club Inc. (Mixed) SGB 4421 6660 Country Club, Function Room 3rd Thu 10am-12pm Sec. Sanctuary Point Mens Shed 17 Clifton St, Sanct Pt Robyn Dalleywater 4408 8084 1st Thu 10.30am All members welcome Open Mon-Fri 9am-3pm Any blokes that want to get out of the house for St Georges Basin Rural Fire Brigade Fire Station, The a while drop in for a cuppa and a chat John 0413 837 538 Wool Rd, SGB 3rd Mon 7.30pm Cpt Michelle 0427 288 340 Shoalhaven Avicultural Society 2nd Tue 7.30pm St Georges Basin VIEW Club Luncheon SGB Country PCYC Hall Park Rd Nowra 4423 4475 Club, Function Room 3rd Fri 10.30am for 11.30am start Sue 4443 7931 or 0430 375 053 Shoalhaven Beekeepers Ass, Inc. West Street Community Centre, West St, Nowra 3rd Wed (ex. Dec 2nd Sussex Inlet Cancer Support Group 2nd Fri 10am Wed) 5.30pm for cuppa, meeting 6pm sharp, Sussex Inlet Neighbourhood Centre Betty Webb guest speakers most months 4441 3552 or Robin Lang 4441 0155 e: [email protected] or The Country Club, St Georges Basin Fishing Club The S hoalhaven Caravan Club bi monthly 11am Country Club, StGB 4th Sun 2pm (ex Christmas) Erhard Bomaderry Bowling Club followed by lunch 4443 8024 Beryl 0407 069 375 or Kathy 0427 874 201 Tomerong School of Arts 2nd Mon 1930hrs Tomerong Shoalhaven City Toastmasters Club Shoalhaven School of Arts Hall www.tomeronghall.com

Ex-Serviceman's Club, 157 Junction St, Nowra 4th Wed New members welcome 7-9pm Do you dread speaking in front of others? Need to conduct important meetings? Then we are for you Visitors Vietnam Veterans Assoc - Jervis Bay Sub Branch always welcomed free entry Mac 0401 524 844 or Club Jervis Bay 3rd Thu 5.30pm Barbara Herbert Linda 0425 279 380 0437 144 345 e: [email protected] Shoalhaven Ex-Servicemans Dance Club 2nd Sat Vincentia Red Cross Holy Spirit Church Hall, St George 7.30-11pm Shoal ExServicemans Club 157 Junction St, Ave, Vincentia 4th Wed (except Jan) 1pm Enquiries Nowra social dance incl. modern ballroom, new vogue Margaret Klem 4443 0434 and sequence, latin, rock n roll visitors welcome light Wandandian Progress Association 1st Tue 6pm supper Ph Stuart 0413 051 003 Progress Hall S hoalhaven Blood Cancer Support & Information Group 2nd Mon 10am-12 noon Bomaderry Bowling Wildlife Rescue South Coast (formerly Native Animal Club, Meroo Rd, Bomaderry Support and resources for Network Assoc – NANA) Nowra Library Meeting Rooms, blood cancer patients and carers Ph 4443 2105 10 Berry St, Nowra 2nd Wed 7pm 0418 427 214 27 What’s On...What’s On...What’s On...What’s On...What’s On...What’s On

W eekly Church Services O ther Activities cont’d Anglican Church - BBCR Great Mates Shed 18 Sanctuary Pt Rd, Sanctuary Point 48 Paradise Beach Rd (next to library) Sanctuary Point Mon-Wed-Thurs-Fri 9am-3.30pm Sun 8.30am Traditional Service held every Sunday (closed Tue) 4443 7681 Vincentia Vincentia Primary School, George Caley Place, Community Cottage 48 Edmund St, Sanctuary Pt Vincentia Sun 10am Modern Family Service with kids and 0409 051 244 or 0412 645 710 Mon Pottery 9am-2pm youth programs Minister Ray Goldman 4441 5755 Tue & Thu Body’Soul Fitness 8-9am Tue Studio 19 Dance 3.30-8.30pm Tue & Wed Daly Moves Exercise 9.30- Basin Baptist Church 165 The Wool Rd, SGB Sun 10.30am Fri Mannerhouse Outreach Childrens Morning Service & Junior Kids 9.30am Group 4-5pm Bay & Basin Uniting Church Meriton St, SGB Sun Shareostomates, Shoalhaven Area Ostomates 9.30am Family Worship w/Jnr Church Support Group Nowra Community Health Centre, Huskisson Church Ctr Thu 9.30-11.30am Coffee & Chat 5-7 Lawrence Av, Nowra Mon 2pm Margaret or Tracey Rev Glenys Biddle 4443 0864 4424 6300 Improving lives through shared experiences C3 Church Jervis Bay 20 Birriga Av, Worrowing Hts Tomerong School of Arts Mon Pilates 1800hrs- Sun 9.30am Family Service Every morning except Sun 1900hrs Tue Tai Kwon Do 1730hrs-1900hrs Tue Raised 5.30am Prayer Meeting Office 4441 8738 Voices 1900hrs-2100hrs Thu Arts & Crafts (crafty people) web: c3churchjervisbay.com.au 1000hrs-1200hrs Thu Tai Kwon Do 1730hrs-1900hrs Sat Catholic Church – Holy Spirit St Georges Ave, Markets (3rd Sat) 0800hrs-1300hrs Ph Pawel 0401 070 Vincentia Mass times: Sun 9.30am Mon Thu Fri 8am 709 or email [email protected] Further info www.tomeronghall.com 5.30pm Tue Wed Vigil Sat 6pm 4441 5571 Youth & Community Centre 34 Paradise Beach Rd, Jervis Bay Baptist Church Cnr The Wool Rd & St George Sanctuary Pt 4443 9244 Operating Hrs Mon-Fri 9-4pm

Av, Vincentia Sun 9.30am Morning Service offering a range of social & recreational activities Seventh-day Adventist Church 169 McKay St, Nowra Sat 9.30am Bible Study, 11am Worship Service Future planning for possible Bay and Basin Contemporary Service Community Forums Pastor Petrovic 0402 716 762 Basin Villages Forum 3rd Mon 7.30pm Meriton St Community Centre, SGB Christine 4443 7665 Monthly Church Services Huskisson & Woollamia Comm. Voice bi monthly 2nd Spiritualist Meeting Scout Hall, 39 Tasman Rd, StGB Mon 7pm (Feb-Nov) Huskisson Community Centre, Cnr 2nd Sun 2pm Ph 4443 0628 Tomerong & Dent St, Huskisson www.hwcv.org.au exec@ hwcv.org.au O ther Activities Sanctuary Point Community Pride Innovations Centre at The Country Club, St Georges Basin Australian Breastfeeding Association, Paul 0417 219 260 or Veronica 0427 249 457 Shoalhaven Group 24 hour Breastfeeding Helpline e: [email protected] 1800 686 268 for information about local Mum-to-Mum Tomerong Community Forum 2nd Mon 2030hrs directly get togethers www.breastfeeding.asn.au after the School of Arts meeting Tomerong School of Arts Hall Bay & Basin Branch of the Liberal Party Meets New members welcome Quarterly 7pm Venue SGB Country Club Vincentia Ratepayers & Residents Association Vincentia Community Hall (Coles carpark) 3rd Thu of every Bay & Basin Uniting Church Huskisson OP SHOP at 2nd month (Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec) 7.15pm coffe/tea/ Huskisson Church Centre 53 Hawke Street, Huskisson biscuit 7.30pm start www.vrra.org.au [email protected] Mon-Fri 9am-4pm, Sat 9am-12.30pm 4441 7495 Secretary 0438 856 568 vrra.ccb

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Playgroups Venues for Hire cont’d Binji and Boori Playgroup a playgroup for Koori kids T omerong School of Arts 358 Hawken Rd, Tomerong Mon 10-11.30am Sanctuary Point Connect Ph Jasmin (from $15p.h. for regular bookings; $25p.h. for casual 4423 9900 bookings) Ph Bev Stewart 0413 144 443 or email [email protected] www.tomeronghall.com Sanctuary Point Sing & Play Tues 9.30-11.30am at Sanctuary Point Connect A free supported playgroup with Vincentia Community Centre rear of Bilo carpark, Wool Rd, Vincentia 4429 3463 music, craft and more Christine 4443 5020 www.sanctuarypointconnect.org Wandandian Progress Association Hall D2683 Princes Hwy, Wandandian www.wandandian.org.au Splash Group - Art in the Park Mon 9.30-11am Paradise Booking Officer Anne Simpson 4443 5410 Beach Reserve Renee 4424 7100 or 0423 606 559 Baby Playgroup - for babies 6 wks to 2 yrs Thu 1-2.30pm Update Your Listing at Sanctuary Point Connect Ph Christine 4443 0520 www.sanctuarypointconnect.org Are Your ...What’s On... Details Incorrect or Out of Date? email your updated info to “What’s On”at Little Steps - a playgroup for children not attending [email protected] childcare Run by Noah's Inclusion Services at Sanctuary Point Connect Ph Nicki 0402 615 826 St. Georges Basin Wed 9.30am Cnr Tasman Rd & Terry Justices of the Peace St, SGB Melissa Horselman 0424 218 547 or find us on facebook BASIN VIEW T omerong Miss Carrie Cooper Mon 10am Hawken St, Costello, Brian 4443 6831 0418 230 122 Tomerong [email protected] or 0411 838 206 Fleming, Barry 4443 6948 Trinity Tots Playtime Wed 10am-12 noon Jervis Bay Gray, Frank 4443 5365 HUSKISSON Anglican Church, Hawke St Huskisson craft, play, music Kelson, Garry 0458 002 874 and more Louise 4441 5755 Parnell, Keith 0407 051 154 Todd, Kathy 4441 7000 Venues for Hire OLD EROWAL BAY Lord, Simone 4443 8300 Bay & Basin Uniting Church Meriton St, StGB SANCTUARY POINT 4443 2642 Askew, Matthew 0422 068 209 Community Arts Cottage 48 Edmund St, Sanctuary Cassar, Lawrence (Joe) 4443 8805 Point 0409 051 244 or 0412 645 710 Flynn, Mark 0418 669 688 Huskisson Community Centre Dent St, Huskisson Hawkins, Paul 4443 8800 0417 219 260 Ph 0487 469 032 1pm to 4pm - Monday to Friday Job, Warren 0427 681 312 McMillan, Paul 4442 1525 Huskisson Scout & Guide Hall Kiola St, Huskisson Murray, Narelle 4443 2746 0417 651 658 Valda Heggie 4443 8463 or 0408 481 947 Simpson, Rod 4443 3106 0422 826 037 Jervis Bay Maritime Museum Classrooms Dent St, Swattridge, Ronald Jessi 4443 9829 Huskisson Woods, Greg 4443 3208 0409 457 523 Sanctuary Point Youth & Community Centre ST GEORGES BASIN 34 Paradise Beach Rd, Sanctuary Point Ph: 4443 9244 Askew, Ross 0428 434 657 St Georges Basin Community Centre 21 Meriton St, Bos, Warren Pieter 0412 578 381 St Georges Basin Ph: 0435 852 960 Creighton, Sandra 0411 245 188 Thomas, Jeff 0417 772 262 St Georges Basin Scout Hall Tasman Rd Scout Hall, VINCENTIA St Georges Basin Tammie 0472 658 505 Casmiri, Luciano (Lou) 0438 856 568

29 Monthly Feature CHARCOAL BURNING Contributed by John Blackmore

The annual Albion Park, Kiama and Berry the demand for charcoal as the years during the Shows were cancelled at the height of the Second World War wore on. bushfire crisis we experienced during Gas produced from charcoal was an alternative December and January, and for quite some fuel source used for powering motor vehicle time on either side of those months. It was engines throughout this period. One of the noted at that time by some keen historians photographs of this research project displayed that this was the first time such measures were at the Shoalhaven Historical Society Museum necessary since the time of the Second World in Nowra during 2014 was of a Dodge motor War. vehicle popular across Australia at the time. It With the COVID-19, or Coronavirus showed a gas unit attached to the back of the Pandemic, following up so quickly on the heels vehicle. This contained the charcoal which it of the bushfire crisis, it may yet bring about converted to gas. In turn, this gas helped fuel the most significant effects to our national the engine of the motor vehicle as it was driven economy since the Great Depression before along. that. As the first half of this year has brought Some of the other display photos documented restraints on our lifestyles that many of us different sections of the site, giving evidence have never experienced before, this month’s and clues as to how the charcoal was produced. Monthly Feature is going to These showed kilns large and small, charcoal focus on an activity that was undertaken in the pits with dome hoods, brick flues, as well as 1940s in similar circumstances. the remaining brick foundations of a hut. In the When the extended wildfires swept across the charcoal pit photos, they showed the details of Shoalhaven during the Christmas New Year its interior to have corrugated iron internal period of the 2001/2002 summer, an area linings insulated by bricks. One of the pit of bushland to the west of the Bay & Basin walls were connected to a vent opening which uncovered some secrets. These had been released smoke as the stack of timbers burnt. hidden away in the vicinity of With such a large amount of timber required National Park for over half a century. What for a stack, the burning process could last for they uncovered was the location of a charcoal up to 24 hours. Once it had all burnt, the pile burning enterprise that had existed there in the of coals could contain a considerable heat 1940s. for some time. Therefore, cooling the burnt In 2002, the NSW National Parks and Wildlife stack was an important part of the process to Service collaborated with the Shoalhaven produce the charcoal, before the collecting of Historical Society in a research project to the product by raking through the coals. document these sites in the Jerrawangala This site in today’s Jerrawangala National National Park where charcoal burning had been Park was located in the Clyde Shire Council. undertaken all those years ago. At the time, Amongst the other councils that existed in the petrol rationing was being strictly enforced by Shoalhaven at the time, the Nowra Municipal government regulation. This greatly increased Council was considering how it could take 30 Monthly Feature on charcoal burning. The Shoalhaven News Wollongong based company. His dilemma newspaper reported in July 1940 that “the was that he needed Harry Regan to gain the Local Government Association informed the permission of Henry F. Halloran to access the council at its last meeting that the establishing timber forested land beyond ‘the Archgate’. of charcoal depots as trading funds was quite Harry and his brothers had worked for in order”. In this same article, it was indicated Halloran on this land for some time. When that petrol rationing schemes were soon to be the arrangement become unworkable, the in place. This would be likely to restrict greatly Regan Brothers took over the operation and how far the general public could travel using its equipment, along with its contract with their own private motor vehicles. Harrisons Motor Garage, in Kinghorne Street As the years of the Second World War Nowra. continued, it appeared unlikely that residents After 1941, the pressure on petrol rationing living in Kangaroo Valley would be able to across Australia was accentuated by the fact benefit from any charcoal burning schemes. that the British Forces lost control of the In April 1942, the President of Cambewarra Malaysian oilfields. The Federal Government Shire Council, Cr H.O. Cox, was reported in then fixed a price of 9 pounds a ton on what the Shoalhaven News as commenting to that operators like Harry Regan could receive. As effect at one of its meetings. Plenty of suitably they supplied Harrisons in Nowra, the Regan available timber existed in the Valley, but a Brothers enterprise had to resist offers of “lack of manpower issue was apparently the 20 pounds per ton from the likes of mining great obstacle” as “it was difficult to get men companies, as well as taxi companies from to experiment with charcoal production”. Wollongong and Sydney. Several young Valley men “had signified their intention of going in for charcoal production”, As time moved on, some of Harry’s sons but had opted for more secure and better paid became involved in the charcoal burning jobs offered to them in Nowra. business. When his eldest son Ted enlisted as a soldier in the army after about 12 months In the South Shoalhaven Municipal Council of helping in the business, and subsequently area at around the same time, the Regan left the district for his war service duty, Harry Brothers’ enterprises were already underway employed some of the men from the Roseby to the south of the Crookhaven River. In the Park Aboriginal Mission to help collect the early war years, Harry Regan bought in to a timber for charcoal burning. company which had set up burning bins on ‘the clay hill’ close to what is today referred Another of Harry’s sons (Frank) received a to as ‘the floodgates’; on the Culburra Road surprise one day while working at Harrisons before its intersection and turnoff to Callala Garage in Nowra. After supplying an American and Currarong. At that time, all of these three serviceman with fuel for his motor vehicle, the areas existed as barely small villages. A large big spending American gave Frank a 5 pound wooden construction known as ‘the Archgate’ bonus for his troubles, on top of the 5 pound it existed close to the location of this intersection had cost him to fuel his vehicle. of today. To proceed any further on this land For Frank Regan, a young teenager starting from there, it required the permission of the out in the workforce in those days of wartime landowner Henry F. Halloran. stealth and austerity, this bonus represented Having established the charcoal burning almost an entire fortnightly wage. And a enterprise around 1940, a man named Bill memory that he was to maintain for the rest Smith was in charge of its production for a of his life. 31 Your Community Shoalhaven Libraries Sanctuary Point Paradise Beach Road Sanctuary Point, Monday – Friday 10.00am – 5.30pm Saturday 9.30am – 12.00pm Phone 4406 2076 Email [email protected] http://www.shoalhavenlibraries.com.au/Our-Libraries/Sanctuary-Point

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Creativity and resilience win out again! Call out to artists and makers This year’s SeeChange Jervis Bay Arts Making Community is a non-selective Festival is now going digital! exhibition. All entries are welcome – from If ever a SeeChange Festival embodied its experienced artists and makers right name, it certainly is this year. through to those new to creative practice who are exhibiting for the first time. New First, in response to the flow on impacts of the members are welcome to join to be summer’s bush fires, this year’s festival was eligible to enter. changed to be a smaller and simpler format Find all information at than recent years. And now, in response to seechangefestival.net.au/submit the impacts of COVID-19, there is no longer Present Now the multi-faceted arts project a physical festival at all and SeeChange 2020 (that would have been housed at Huskisson is going digital! Community Centre) will become a collection of innovative digital experiences. Jervis Bay and Basin Arts (JBBArts) is delighted this bold and exciting move is fully The Present Now collective of 20 visual supported by Shoalhaven Council. artists, sculptors, fibre artists, musicians, performers and poets are creating new ways Expect to be engaged and inspired to collaborate, blend their practices and Making Community Exhibition and produce digital experiences to surprise the People’s Choice Award (that would have eyes, stimulate the mind, and make the heart been held at Sandholme Guesthouse) will sing. move into an online gallery on the SeeChange You will still be able to meet the makers, Festival website. see them creating, try your hand at their As a visitor to the digital exhibition you will still methods, hear them give talks, take virtual be able to revel in the creativity of JBBArts guided walks, and share how they see our members; browse and buy a diverse range changing world and our place in it. of visual art, small sculpture and crafted Be sure to check out the June edition of objects; support local artists and makers with magazine for the next update. every purchase, and vote for the work that you most admire. The winner by popular vote receives $500. 33 St Georges Basin Senior Citizens Inc. (aka Basin Seniors) Providing Fun Activities and Social Contact for "Young at Heart" Seniors Margaret 4443 6031 – 0403 783 290 Senior Citizens are people 50 and over either retired or semi – retired. Unfortunately, due to our meeting place, The Country Club, being closed Volunteers needed to join our because of COVID-19, our activities Management Committee are suspended until further notice. Central Shoalhaven Mobile Preschool is a Once things return to normal, our community owned not-for profit service members will be contacted and that has been providing care and education advised we are up and running again. to children aged between 3 and 5 for the last forty years. New Members will be most welcome CSMP is governed by a volunteer to join us in the Auditorium of The committee. We invite members of Country Club at 9am each Thursday the community who feel they could morning for very social and friendly positively contribute to the management of this business to express their interest games of Indoor Bowls and/or Darts, in joining the committee. Previous or cards, playing Euchre. background experience in the following Till then, stay safe and well everyone would be of benefit:- Human Resources; and look after each other. Education; Business; Accounting Contact: Till then, keep smiling – Margaret [email protected]

34 Advice

Shoalhaven Justices of the Peace at work for you

Looking for a Justice of the Peace? When we are looking for a Justice of All updates are shown on the the Peace we can never find one! Department of Justice website. Well, hopefully we can help you as there 3. Justices are over 50 in the area, hard to believe. Association members Plus there are some who are JPs and These are Justices of the Peace others who think they are, so what is the who belong to an association in difference? New South Wales and also work as 1. Justice of the Peace for Life volunteers at service desks all over All of us were at one stage and then the State. it changed around 2000 – 2003. The Shoalhaven Branch JPs are At that time all JPs were issued with located in the office of Fiona Phillips a registration number to use with MP, Member for Gilmore, near the their signature. Some of the Life JPs Nowra Post Office Monday to Friday believe they are still JPs..... but they 9am-2pm and in Kiama at the library are not. on Saturdays 9.30am-12.30pm. The Attorney General’s office The Association Justices of the informed all JPs of this change but Peace meet monthly and receive people move around and thus do training bi-monthly to keep up to date not know. with current rules and regulations. They are also kept up to date daily 2. Justice of the Peace today from our NSW State office. These JPs are registered with the 4. So how do I find one? Department of Justice and have Go onto the NSW Department of a registration number and as of Justice website and go to “Finding March 2019 they have to complete a JP”; it will ask you for some a 20 question test every five years to information and will list who is remain a JP. available at the time and their mobile They must attain 20 out of 20 number. questions correctly. JPs need to register themselves today on the Regards, Laurie Department of Justice website and NSW Justices Association, log in to Register for JP Online and Shoalhaven Branch enter their details. 0438 013 330 35 A Snippet of History The Wool Road and its Construction in 1841 Exploration of a Route to the Bay (South Huskisson) Excerpts from Rohan Westmore's Snippets from History (About..... magazine issue August 2007)

The urgent need to find a faster route to purpose of building the road from South transport their wool, wheat and stock to the Huskisson to Nerriga, a distance of approx Sydney Markets other than by the existing 40 miles, at the same time from Braidwood, road, forced local graziers in the Braidwood, a number of Convicts with rations and Goulburn districts Messrs. Murray (of implements and a supervisor funded by local Yarralumla) and O'Connel in September graziers commenced building their section of 1839 to explore and discover a new line to the road to Nerriga." the Bay. The Towns along The Wool Road The route they discovered proved to be With the exception of the townships of satisfactory, and with a number of interested Nerriga and Sassafras, the other towns were graziers formed themselves into a company never developed. with a capital of 5,000 pounds for the purpose At Sassafras a subdivision of 60 farms was of building the road. The Subscribers then surveyed and sold by auction. A Post Office addressed a memorial to the Governor of was opened in 1864, mineral sources were NSW requesting that a survey be made as discovered, complementing the coal found soon as possible. in 1880 in the Clyde Gorge, however no Surveyor Appointed to Survey a Route economic base was established although On May 1840 the colonial Secretary requested timber mills continued to operate until the the Surveyor General to have the line late 1960s, however with the declining surveyed, surveyor Larmer was instructed population Sassafras rapidly returned to its to proceed with the work, but before doing bush setting. so was to consult with the interested parties, Nerriga is 53kms from Braidwood on the including Messrs. Murray, Ryrie, Campbell, Nowra Road and in 1828 George Gailbraith Wilson and others. and Colonel John MacKenzie were the first The news that Mr Larmer had succeeded to settle in the area, with a land grant and in locating a good line of road was received assigned convict labour. with satisfaction by the graziers and also The discovery and mining of gold was the the press. Larmers survey and report were main contributor to its establishment. In forwarded to the Colonial Secretary on excess of some 20,000 ounces of gold was August 1840, with a recommendation that taken from the area between 1878 and 1960. the road be proclaimed. Construction of a Water Race Construction of the New Road There was even greater activity in gold mining The work was begun in February 1841, as will in 1887 with the construction of a water race appear from the following statement. "The believed to be the most extensive in the Coastal Steamer 'Isabella' sailed yesterday colony by the Corang Sluicing Company for for Jervis Bay, conveying rations and Hydraulic Sluicing at their claim in Taylor’s implements for seventy men and a supervisor, Gully, which in parts was running as high as who are granted by the Government for the 24 grains to the dish. 36 A Snippet of History The length of this race was 24 miles from Nineteen different ships called into South where it started at the head of the Bules Huskisson between 1841 and 1844, but River, to Taylor’s Gully. The race included because of a bad drought and altered cuttings with three tunnels, 1,300, 400 and economic conditions, including political 300ft in length, with 462 chains of fluming reasons the village ceased to exist in 1844. costing 10,000 pounds. Some private homes were destroyed by fire Nerriga’s Commercial Hotel is believed to and others were abandoned. Today only have been established on or before 1864 and a lonely sentinel still stands to mark the was previously known as the Cricketer’s location of the once thriving village of South Arms and in 2007 was called the Barktree Huskisson, a tall Norfolk Pine Tree near Hotel. Argyle St. in Vincentia. The Wool Road was completed in November It was not until after 1943 that the beginnings 1841 (a distance of 92 miles). Just 9 months after starting work and was ready to be used, of a new South Huskisson were seen of a new with the first Bullock train loaded with bales town named Vincentia began on the old site. of wool on the way to the Sydney Markets. The following towns were surveyed along A new stone wharf was then constructed at The Wool Road in 1842: Nerriga, Sassafras, South Huskisson to enable ships to berth and Farnham, , Boolijah. load up with wheat, wool and produce from Due to a bad drought and economic Inland towns. conditions The Wool Road was no longer the The PS ‘Sophia Jane’ steamer made monthly preferred route from transport of wool and trips to South Huskisson to pick up wool, produce to Sydney. loading as many as 50 bales, part of Colonel Nerriga Museum was established in 1983 MacKenzie’s and Dr Wilson’s Wool clip. in the old Nerriga Schoolhouse which was The wool being brought from Braidwood, opened in 1894. It housed a collection of Goulburn and Canberra was loaded onto older household utensils, nick nacks and a ships for Sydney and England. photographic history of the early settlers, PS 'Sophia Jane' loading bales of wool, memorabilia of the early schooling days South Huskisson Wharf 1842 including slates and school magazines. In the grounds a large shed was built to house tractors and early agriculture farm machinery, with a small shed housing gold mining memorabilia and photos etc.

The old Nerriga School circa 1894.

Township of South Huskisson Built The village consisted of a general store, 3 hotels, post office, Campbell’s Wool Store, Blacksmith’s Shop, Wheelwright, Bakehouse, Wharf and many houses. 37 Police, Fire, Ambulance Triple Zero (000) In an emergency Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000 Report crime anonymously Police Assistance Line 131 444 For non emergencies

38 Vincentia Ratepayers and Residents Association Inc. We are living in extraordinary times. The Coronavirus aka COVID-19 has totally transformed our daily work, play and life. The impact on Vincentia has been, and continues to be, huge. While there are many aspects of this crisis that are out of our control, we can work together to minimise its impacts by following the health and safety guidelines. At the same time, it is more important than ever that we continue to work collaboratively and collectively to ensure Vincentia and the Bay and Basin is ready to spring back when the current crisis is resolved. Unfortunately, at this point in time we are not sure if VRRA will have a general meeting on 16 June, however we are testing the Zoom Meeting concept (meeting via internet and/or phone) and depending on outcome if needed we may have a Zoom Meeting for June. If you require additional information about VRRA or about our next meeting, please do not hesitate to contact me via vrra.ccb@ gmail.com or text me your contact details or call me on 0438 856 568 - 24/7 Keep safe and well, Luciano (Lou) Casmiri VRRA – CCB Secretary

39 be made through appointment only. Staff are available to answer your calls and questions 4429 3410. Waste Services All Waste Services Buyback Centres are closed and the Green & Bulky Waste Collection Service has ceased. Due to heightened restrictions and staff availability, C ouncil Services and Facilities the following Recycling and Waste depots have impacted by COVID - 19 been closed until further notice: Kioloa, Lake Shoalhaven City Council has closed all in Conjola, , Sussex Inlet and Callala. person customer services to slow the spread Our remaining depots, , Huskisson of COVID-19 throughout the Shoalhaven. The and Ulladulla are still open. Please call 4429 move follows Federal Government’s advice and 5681 for further information. will be in place until further notice. Community Buildings Council’s public Council continues to deliver essential services community buildings will temporarily be such as waste and recycling collections, as well unavailable for hire. This includes buildings as the cleaning of public amenities. Plans will be at showgrounds, sporting facilities, public in place to manage this situation as it changes, halls and community centres. The open space as per advice from NSW Health. around them is accessible for casual use, with adherence to government hygiene and social Impacted services include: distancing directives. Swim, Sport and Fitness Facilities All Camping grounds The camping grounds at Shoalhaven Swim, Sport and Fitness Facilities the Berry, Nowra and Milton Showgrounds are are closed. This also includes sea pools, village closed to leisure visitors until further notice. pools and gyms. The Splash Cafe at Nowra Camping is only permitted for people who Aquatic Park is still operational for takeaway would otherwise be without a permanent only. residence. Public Skate Parks, Playgrounds, Shoalhaven Libraries A number of changes Gyms, courts, outdoor gyms and skate parks are in service will enable customers to still access currently closed throughout the region. These library services, some of these include Remote facilities will be closed until further notice, Story Time and Phone Service. following the Federal Government's restrictions Nowra and Ulladulla Customer Service All to slow the spread of COVID-19. customer service interactions will be taken Online Services Residents are being online and over the phone only. Call 4429 3111. encouraged to utilise Council’s online and Shoalhaven Animal Shelter The Animal phone services, which allows them to report Shelter is considered an essential service and a missed bin collection (1800 441 341), lodge the animals continue to receive the highest and track Development Applications, pay bills online (rates – water), view property details, level of care from our dedicated staff. download dog attack witness report, register All of our animals are fed and exercised daily. your pet, current and upcoming road works and There are, however, strict social distancing much more. guidelines and both staff and visitors need to Where can I find more information? adhere to these. Where animals are presented to the shelter, owners will be able to reclaim NSW Government – www.nsw.gov.au/coronavirus them. Payments now need to be made over the SafeWork NSW – www.safework.nsw.gov.au phone and animals can be picked up from our Federal Department of Health – www.health.gov.au overnight kennels. This will minimise contact World Health Organisation – www.who.int with our staff. We will still continue to share our Call the Coronavirus Health Information animals available for adoption in our “virtual Line on 1800 020 080. The line operates 24 shelter” via video. All other adoptions are to hours a day, seven days a week.

40 Schools Corner What’s the latest at

Sanctuary Point Public School would like to sincerely thank our families and the community for their unwavering support, commitment and efforts throughout the transition to schooling from home. It has been amazing to see parents and staff working together with the delivery of interactive online learning and embracing the experience. The connection between home and school is an integral part of what we do, this is being strengthened by the implementation of online delivery of education and the discovery of new ways we can support families. At Sanctuary Point Public School our students’ wellbeing has always been at the forefront of our teaching practices, this is as it always was a partnership and we will continue to support and encourage our students and families alike as we continue to navigate this ever changing climate. We have observed a strength and resilience in our school and wider community that is nothing short of remarkable, please keep the photos coming and sharing your experience via our schools social media platforms. We are all in this together.

41 Schools Corner VINCENTIA HIGH SCHOOL NEWS We are embracing the new ways of learning As we finished Term 1 our Principal, Ms Ruth Winfield sent out messages of sincere thanks to all our parents, carers, teachers and students for the way they have embraced the new ways of learning that Vincentia High School have created over a very short time frame.

We have been able to offer learning through Google Classrooms at home and at school and provide paper resources. It has been a learning curve and parent and student feedback has assisted us greatly.

We know now that this style of learning will continue well into Term 2. We don’t know exact dates as our current situation is so uncertain. We will continue to give updates about how we are working through the process and any changes to it. The teachers and staff at Vincentia High School are committed to continuing to provide education for our students.

Teachers have been providing feedback to students regularly through messages on Google Classroom. This feedback is important to guide our students learning. They have been asked to “hand in” some work each week so we can see in greater detail what they are learning and give them guidance around that. We have set up our Google Classroom with wellbeing spaces as a place to connect with others, have some fun and access useful information.

We have made some changes to the structure of our timetable for Years 7-10 to include mini breaks throughout the day after a period of learning.

We are very aware that some students have access to technology and others don’t. We have addressed this by starting with Years 11 and 12 by providing laptops and internet access where needed. We then started doing the same for Years 7-10. We have been in contact with families that haven’t been accessing Google Classrooms to gauge their needs.

Once again we thank our school community for working together during these challenging times to support all of our students to continue with their ‘Learning for Life’. 42 Your May Puzzle T he classic Sudoku 1 7 5 game involves a grid of 81 squares. The grid 7 4 2 9 is divided into nine blocks, each containing 8 6 nine squares. 4 5 The rules of the game are simple: each of 1 8 the nine blocks has to contain all the numbers 7 6 1-9 within its squares. Each number can only 7 3 appear once in a row, column or box. 9 5 8 1 Use your skills of elimination – see if you 3 9 6 can master Sudoku!

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