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NOVEMBER 2 0 1 5 ISSUE 41 Hill ’n’ Ridge Community Newsletter A COMMUNITY NEWSLETT ER PUBLISHED BY RED HILL DISTRICT LIONS CLUB INC PO BOX 72 RED HILL S OUTH 3937 Email: [email protected] Website: lionsredhill.vic.lions.org.au U P C O M I N G A New Playground at Red Hill... E V E N T S The Red Hill Memorial preschool’s new playground was officially opened on Friday 23 Oct. In the redevelopment NOVEMBER the outdoor room has been renovated, new structures built, old favourites retained and hardy new plants incorporated into the design. The new play equipment is designed to encourage children to explore their 6 Music on the Hill - Suzannah Espie, The Yearlings, Chris Commerford environment and to participate in cooperative play. In her address to the gathering of parents and supporters, Erin Taylor, president of the preschool committee, thanked those who were involved in the construction of the 6 Schools Science Expo playground or had contributed financially to the redevelopment. 6 ADFAS—Painting in France 7 Red Hill Market 8 Arthurs Seat Challenge 11 Remembrance Day wreath laying. 15 Red Hill Country Fair RH Consolidated School 15 Picnic day at Elgee Park 11-3 20 Coast Trek - Cape Shank -Pt Nepean 27 Christmas Cracker . to support youth at risk 27 RH Cricket Club Twilight Market RH Recreation Reserve Enjoying the new playground Gary Sanford (Bendigo Bank) Lyn Connor (RH Lions) and 29 Portsea Market Karen McSarland (MPSC) cutting the ribbon to open ...and a new Piste at Main Ridge the new playground DECEMBER Two mainstays 4 Music on the Hill- he Mae Trio, of the petanque Broads playing group, 5 Red Hill Market Trevor and 12 Carols on the Hill Sandra Ripper, showing how it JANUARY is played. 1 Music on the Hill -Rob Snarski 2 Red Hill Market 17 2016 Two Bays Trail Run – For more on 17 Portsea Market the Petanque At the official opening of the new petanque piste, from left, Piste opening, 19 Hill’n’Ridge Community Celebration Bowls and Petanque Club Secretary, Jonathan O’Sullivan, Merv see story page 7 FEBRUARY Prosser, Dromana Rotary, Cr Tim Wood, Bowls and Petanque Club President Jonathan Hodgkin, Martin Dixon, MP, cutting the 7 Jayco Herald Sun Tour ribbon and Petanque leader, Sandra Ripper. Deadline for REMEMBRANCE DAY DeadlineIssue 42 WREATH LAYING for December 2ND Wednesday Issue 3 Please email articles, dates of We sell and manage rural, beach and residential real estate from 11 November events, photos and Merricks to Flinders, Main Ridge to Shoreham ....and Red Hill of course! information to Red Hill War Memorial June 16th Phillip McNeill-Young |Licensed Estate Agent |Direct (03) 5989 2364 | Mobile 0428 148 693 Jacobs [email protected] 10.45 am Include events for & Lowe 81 Arthurs Seat Rd. Red Hill [email protected] | jacobsandlowe.com.au | JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH 2016 This newsletter is delivered to all residential mail boxes in Red Hill and Main Ridge with the All welcome compliments of Phillip McNeill-Young from the Red Hill Office of Jacobs & Lowe Estate Agents. The Red Hill District Lions Club Incorporated do their best to ensure the accuracy of the information provided in this publication but do not take any responsibility for any claim, demand or other loss however caused by reliance on any information or content found within. Any views or opinions contained on these pages are those of the author(s) and not those of the Publisher. HILL ’N’ RIDGE P A G E 1 TED ORI IS STILL CREATING THE FLAVOUR OF TUSCANY Sapori Di Casa, translates to ‘the flavour of home’. For Ted Ori the flavour of home is the flavour of Tuscany. So, it is a very apt name for the little Italian restaurant run by Ted and his wife Helen in what was formerly the Whitehill Gallery, in White Hill Road, Dromana. After operating La Campagna, a home than a restaurant. vineyard, olive grove and osteria at Cape Reaching La Campagna seemed like an Schanck for 20 years Ted, now 70, endless drive with the olive trees flanking played with the idea of retirement, but the dirt road, reminding visitors of taking only briefly. He soon surrendered to his a drive through the Italian countryside. desire to provide a place where his long Despite its isolation and the fact that in- standing patrons and friends could the-know locals swore to keep it to continue to gather to enjoy his food and themselves, people found it and flocked hospitality. Hence his creation of this there for lunch from Friday to Sunday to local venue, seating about 20 in rustic enjoy whatever Ted and Helen decided surroundings – including laminated to cook that day. “It was not 5 stars, they tables - where authentic Italian food like were coming to a family. If you are going lasagne and focaccia are offered along to friends you don’t ask what you will be Ted Ori loves cooking in his wood-fired oven with wood-fired bread and roasts. A eating,” Ted said. small selection of Italian wine is available as well as his favourite Tuscan red which electrician skills working in a glass Ted Ori made his first wine when he was he generously dispenses along with a factory in Carlton designing shatter-proof 13 years old and he enthusiastically took good measure of light hearted proprietor- and heat-proof glass. Although he loved, it up again at La Campagna, doing a patron interaction. and still loves creating electrical short course at Burnley to update his Ted operates on a very simple inventions, in 1973 he chose to enter the knowledge. His first vintage there was in philosophy: “I cook what I like the way I food industry, putting into practice the 1998. “We grew the grapes, picked like it and that is what I offer. If that’s knowledge and experience he gained them, crushed them, made the wine and what the customers like they will come,” growing up in Italy working alongside his bottled and labelled it,” he said. he said. parents in the kitchen. First he sold ‘Tuscan Red’ was one of his special Not surprisingly it’s a family affair. barbequed chickens at Camberwell blends and he still has some in the cellar Helen, a talented cook, does a lot of the Market for 31/2 days a week, then to share with patrons. He used no egg or cooking and their daughter Red comes moved to Toorak Village to operate milk and used tannins extracted from the on the weekends and often changes Golden Brown take-away. Then for 25 grape skin rather than preservatives. batons with Helen – Red takes over in years he ran The Gourmet Roast Sapori Di Casa could be described as a the kitchen and Helen adjourns to their Carvery in Toorak, offering a full range of scaled down version of La Campagna, a home next door and looks after the two carved meats and vegetables to take down-sizing to suit the talents and young grandchildren. home – no seating to dine there, just capacities of a couple who have reached Ted Ori came to Australia in 1963 when take-away. In the early 1990s Ted retirement age but still want to provide a he was 17 years old. Although tempted, and Helen bought 12 hectares of rolling special brand of hospitality. It is Red he did not join a lot of his young fellow land at Cape Schanck, planted three Hill’s good fortune that Ted and Helen countrymen who travelled north to cut hectares of vines and about 2500 olive Ori chose to ‘retire’ here. As one of my cane in the season, where they could trees and La Campagna was born. Later local dining companions said as he earn big money. “I saw them come back they built an environmentally sensitive tucked into his Polpette (Italian and lose all their money playing cards house with a dining room tucked in under meatballs), “Why go to Italy when you with men in Melbourne who played cards the house. It could seat 30 people and can come here?” – RB. for a living,” he said. Rather he used his was run more like a part of the family RED HILL MOTORS TO CLOSE ITS DOORS Alan Pittock will close the doors of Red biggest workshop on the Peninsula. Hill Motors for the last time on Friday Reflecting on his 51 years at Red Hill afternoon, November 13, ending 66 Motors Alan singles out one thing that years of continuous service the garage gives him pride. “Most of the apprentices has given to vehicle owners in Red Hill that have done their training here have and district. For 51 of those years Alan gone on to succeed in their own has been in that workshop, initially in businesses. So I must have been doing partnership with his father Elgar until something right,” he said. 1998, and since then as the sole “Many well- known local families have proprietor. been bringing their vehicles here since “I have been unsuccessful in trying to the 1950s and I thank them most sell the business and very reluctantly I sincerely for their patronage and their have decided to close down,” he said. loyalty,” he said. He nearly sold the whole business in Now 67, Alan is looking forward to 2007. Then in 2009, not wanting to run a seeing what it is like to have a life in 7 day a week business himself, he Alan Pittock, reflecting on his 51 years at Red Hill Motors retirement.