INSIDE Be Fire Ready As the Diary Heads Into Its 50Th Year, We Celebrate All That Is Wonderful About Our Community
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WARRANDYTE f the cmunity by the cmunity No 536, DECEMBER 2019 GOLDFIELDS Since 1970 | Priceless PLAZA Editorial & Advertising: 9844 0555 | Email: [email protected] Celebrating community INSIDE Be Fire Ready As the Diary heads into its 50th year, we celebrate all that is wonderful about our community. — Pages 4-5 This month we have much to celebrate, with the people-power win to retain the Emergency Housing, to have a Beauty & the Beast Jr. place for our most vulnerable to call home in a time of crisis. We profile the epitome of community spirit and meet — Pages 18–19 the winner of Warrandyte Community Bank’s Community Spirit Award. Remembering Jean We celebrate the opening of a new village for our older residents to call home, and look towards a colourful 2020 — Page 20 and another fantastic Warrandyte Festival. All that and more in this month’s Warrandyte Diary. Your community hall Merry Christmas from our community of contributors to our community of readers. — Page 26 Photo: BRUCE DAVIDSON Peter Gardiner BARRISTER & SOLICITOR Local legal practitioner since 1989 We specialise in Office 1, 2 Colin Avenue Warrandyte helping businesses [email protected] 9844 1111 • • • “Eating Brussels sprouts probably won’t kill me, but why take the chance” — Anon. 2 Warrandyte Diary DECEMBER 2019 OVER THE HILLS By JOCK MACNEISH TheOVER more THE things HILLS change... By JOCK MACNEISH DECEMBER The Diary’s researchers have started from the corner of Bourke Street number of Miners with voting rights, and Stephen Street (now Exhibition Captain Anderson was elected with an Peace, love been trawling the internet and Street) commenced regular operations, overwhelming majority. have come across a bit of a find. which continued thrice weekly each way Gold was still the main industry at and hope Tucked away on the Warrandyte throughout the summer. Anderson’s Creek, the Gold Circular 232 Yarra St Cricket Club’s website is a copy The journey took the best part of a day. stating a rush was in full swing and up to This, apart from gold, was probably the 100 ounces to the ton being obtained. Warrandyte of a book tracing the history of main single factor which contributed One reliable source quoted a Scot as 0411 528 142 the Warrandyte Cricket Club and towards the rapid growth of the district. earning more than £400 by breaking quartz therefore the township. It was not all work during that first year. with a sledgehammer. Cricket was, apparently, the main social But James Sloan caused the biggest stir HOURS The Warrandyte Story relaxation, for the Club came into existence in Melbourne when he got 12 oz. from a Fri, Sat, Sun: 11am–5:30pm before New Year’s Eve. single bucket of quartz. 1855–1955 Thus, 1856 was “bowled in” with great Within a month Dransfield Dowlings Compiled by LOUIS CRANFIELD, expectations. Company erected the first quartz-crusher Written & Illustrated The first election campaign at Anderson’s on the field. by HARRY HUDSON Creek, June 1856, was contested by Importing a 20hp crusher — the first of its Advertisers’ forum Captain W. A. C. Anderson, Commissioner kind in the Colony, and which was also Chapter 3: Development of Public Works, and William Pender, of equipped for flour-milling — the Company Businesses: How can the Diary help you St. Kilda. exploited the goldfield outrageously, by Contd... The shadow of Eureka Stockade was cast charging the unheard-of rate of £5 per ton engage with your customers? As early as October 1856, the first coach over the election when fervent appeals for crushing. We will be holding a forum in early 2020 service from Melbourne began operations. from all over the State were made for The dearest rate in Victoria, at that time, It was a great day, worthy of celebration, electors to vote against Captain Anderson, was Castlemaine at £1 per ton. to discuss how the Warrandyte Diary when a large crowd gathered at Cameron’s who was described as a civil servant and a This monopolistic exploitation not only and local businesses can better work Store to welcome the first Ford & Co. Eureka Stockader. put the Company out of business within Coach. It was alleged that he dealt harshly two years, but caused a developmental together. Although the coach, which became with employees in the Public Works setback in the area, from which it took bogged at Deep Creek, never arrived, the Department, besides which, he had served years to recover. Email your expression of interest to: celebrations went on — disappointment with the Military at Eureka Stockade. Those were the days of “get-rich-quick- acting as an extra spur to the gaiety. Although Anderson’s Creek was Johnny-let-development-go-hang”. [email protected] Several weeks later the service — which regarded as a key centre because of the But, there was always cricket. EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Sandi Miller & James Poyner, 9844 0555 WARRANDYTE ADVERTISING RATES [email protected] Full Page: Business Card Sized: 260 x 360mm $1,100 inc GST 80 x 60mm $121 inc GST PUBLISHER: Warrandyte Diary Pty Ltd Half Page: 1/2 Business Card Sized: (ACN 006 886 826 ABN 74 422 669 097) as trustee for the 260 x 175mm $715 inc GST 40 x 60mm $66 inc GST Warrandyte Arts & Education Trust Quarter Page: Preferred positions loading: POSTAL ADDRESS: P.O. Box 209, Warrandyte 3113 129 x 175mm vertical or Prices on application ADVERTISING & ACCOUNTS: Briony Bottarelli, 9844 0555 260 x 85mm horizontal Mini-ads: $396 inc GST $20 for 150 characters. Pre-paid. 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Around 1900 Warrandyte Diary accepts no Published on or about the second Tuesday of each month (except January). the miners, orchardists and tradespeople were joined by a number of young responsibility for financial, health painters who were founding the Australian nationalist arts tradition. Now a or other claims published in OUR NEWSPAPER commuter suburb of Melbourne, the natural beauty, community spirit and sense advertising in this newspaper. The Warrandyte Diary was established in 1970 as a small local newsletter. of independence of Warrandyte has been largely retained. This newspaper is Responsibility for election and the voice and true expression of that spirit. Although it has developed over the years, it has retained its strong referendum comment in this issue community character, being produced mostly by volunteers with only one is accepted by Sandi Miller and aim: to serve its community. 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DECEMBER 2019 Warrandyte Diary 3 Community Housing saved by people power By SANDI MILLER DHHS was considering selling the emergency housing for the local COMMUNITY GROUPS scrambled to property. community, and it did do that for a save Warrandyte’s Emergency Housing “When the previous tenants vacated while when a family moved in after in Police Street after the Department of I asked around to see who the next their house burnt down, but from Health and Human Services (DHHS) tenants were but didn’t get much of a therein it never seemed to follow the placed the building up for sale. response, then I discovered that it was rule, in that there was a tenant who President of the Warrandyte going to be sold, so I contacted a few lived there for 15-plus years. Community Association, Carli Lange- people and talked to people at local However, he said he was disturbed Boutle contacted the Diary following events … and the snowball started that when the last round of tenants left, the news that the Old Warrandyte from there,” he said. the property had to be decontaminated. Police House was for sale. After being contacted by members “Where was the DHHS to let it get to However, a week after it was of the community, both the Member that condition?” he asked. placed on the market, the Minister for Warrandyte Ryan Smith and However, Mr Walker said he is very for Housing, Richard Wynne, had a Member for Eastern Metropolitan pleased that people have managed to change of heart and intervened to Sonja Terpstra petitioned the Minister save it again. stop the sale.