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And just two of the reviews of the very successful Boojum! performed in Adelaide last month and reported in the Voice ... congratulations Martin and Peter: Boojum! is a wonderful piece of It has taken precisely a third of a century performance. Part operetta, part for Boojum! to return home to Adelaide. The Martin Wesley-Smith musical theatre, it sits in that question: was it worth the wait. The answer: and Elena Kats-Chernin more experimental genre of music a resounding yes! … I think Boojum! is a true Concert, Sunday 11 August theatre. musical and theatrical masterpiece. 3:00 pm, Kangaroo Valley Hall Diana Carroll, ArtsHub, July 11 2019 Vincent Plush, Limelight, July 6 2019 $20 per seat.
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Friends and fellow members of Kangaroo NOTICE OF Valley Community, with the really cold ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING nights that we are experiencing, I am more and more often thinking of those NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual who have no homes. These people are General Meeting of the Kangaroo Valley not necessarily ne’er-do-wells who don’t Voice Incorporated will be held on: use their money as others think it should be used. It may be a case that a woman Date: TUESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2019, and her children have fled family abuse, commencing at 6pm. or some one who has lost his job and now can’t afford rent. Hearing news casts of Place: 6 Rectory Park Way, Kangaroo these costs I shudder, thank God I have Valley, NSW. my own house because with my income from CentreLink plus my small UK pension Time: 6.00 PM I am better off than most BUT I am finding it difficult to manage to keep my head above water. I love books and I am now buying less of them than I have done for many years. That is my discomfort, but I have a two bedroom house in Glenmack Park. How many of us here in this community feel able to welcome an unfortunate into their home for a short Voice period? I am willing to offer a bed to a woman of any age, with a child (if there VoiceAdvertising Advertising is one) although they would have to share a bed! I have thought long and hard about RatesRates 20192018 this disgraceful situation, I have prayed forfor completed completed ads* ads* that these unfortunate people would find supplied as .jpg files somewhere to be safe and warm and that supplied as .jpg files somehow rents would be tailored to the ability of homeless people to pay for a Size (mm) B/W Colour roof over their heads. We are a FIRST WORLD COUNTRY friends, 1/8 page (60 x 90) $40 N/A we pride ourselves on being for the fair go and underdog I think that we should begin (90 x 60) to put our money where our mouths are and instead of just saying “Why doesn’t 1/4 page (90 x 130) $55 $145 the Government do something?” Why not (130 x 90) do something ourselves? Please contact me if you have any thoughts on this and we can organise a 1/2 page (190 x130) $85 $185 meeting in one of our many great coffee 1/2 page (Back Cover) $220 spots to discuss the ideas we have. Full page (190 x 270) $140 $280 Win Palmer Full page (Back Cover) $300
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Small Directory Ad: 90 x 55mm Large Directory Ad: 90 x 85mm August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 5 A Sunday Afternoon of Music @ The ARTS LAB After screening two great documentaries part of the trio “The Half Truths” with the in the last couple of months (The Final violinist Kathryn Brownhill. Kathryn, who Quarter and 2040) and starting lots of ‘guests’ on the new Oh Reach album, will conversations, on 18 August The ARTS LAB also be playing with the band at The ARTS is chasing the last winter weeks away LAB on Sunday 18 August. with a Sunday afternoon of song with the The event will start at 3pm with extraordinary musical collaboration “Oh afternoon tea in the ‘back bar’, with Reach”. special guest and local Kangaroo Valley The three songwriters of Oh Reach were singer/songwriter Baxter Stone playing brought together in 2013 by LA-based fireside to warm you up. Oh Reach will producer Tony Buchen, who had worked play in the hall at around 3.30pm. Stay with them all individually and saw the after for a chat by the fire. collaborative potential. Their incredibly The ticket price includes afternoon snacks divergent voices made for one of the most and warm drinks, crackling fires and unlikely trios Buchen could have possibly can be heard on their newly released self- incredible music. Bring your own alcoholic imagined – the sound they created titled album - a weave of stark striking drinks. Children 12 years and under are felt more like tone-films with distinct voices and guitars creating a surreal free, but we will be asking for a small characters and plots, than traditional gospel country folk experience. donation to cover food and drinks for songs. He immediately embarked on Oh Reach is Marcus Gordon (Spookyland), them. recording them - all live around six Simon Relf (The Tambourine Girls) and More information and tickets can be microphones for voices and guitars. No Terry Serio (Ministry of Truth). Terry is found on our website (see advertisement demos were necessary. And so was born also one of Australia’s most cherished for details). We hope to see you there! Oh Reach. actors, working since the 1980s in theatre Following further recording sessions in (Keating! The Musical), film (Running Sarah Butler family homes, a studio in Paris and a On Empty, Dirty Deeds) and television space in the hills of Kangaroo Valley, the (Johnny O’Keefe in Shout: The Story Of ‘sound-vision’ finally came together and Johnny O’Keefe mini-series). Terry is also The ARTS LAB team Coming up @ The ARTSLAB Upper River Hall SUNDAY OH REACH music AFTERNOON A weave of stark striking voices and guitars. 18th AUGUST A surreal gospel country folk experience. @ 3PM Chase winter away with an afternoon of soulful music. Arrive by 3PM for afternoon tea in the ‘back bar’ with special guest BAXTER STONE playing fire side.OH REACH will play around 3:30PM. Stay after for a chat by the fire.
Tickets: $25 | 12 years and under are free — Ticket price includes afternoon snacks, warm drinks BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL — TICKETS ON OUR WEBSITE or email [email protected] for more information BYO alcohol www.artslab.com.au UPPER RIVER HALL | 1009 UPPER KANGAROO RIVER ROAD | KANGAROO VALLEY Page 6 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au August 2019 Shoalhaven Hydro Expansion You may have read an article in the June lift of around 480 metres). Compared supply of solar and wind power, which are Voice last year revealing that Origin with Bendeela station, Kangaroo Valley becoming an increasing component. Energy is looking to expand its hydro- station uses or generates twice the power Adding the extra unit will let Origin electric operation in Kangaroo Valley to move half as much water almost four use the same volume of water in half to almost double their pumped hydro times the height. the time, allowing them to respond to capacity. You can view a video of the Water NSW also calls upon the system to fluctuations in demand throughout the planned expansion at https://youtu.be/ transfer water from the Shoalhaven to day. kuKks1BQip0. The plan is to build a new Warragamba Dam for Sydney in times of The question is, will the infrastructure underground power station to pass water drought. planned to last 100 years pay for itself directly between Fitzroy Falls Reservoir There has been some concern expressed when new battery technologies may and Lake Yarrunga, thus bypassing in Kangaroo Valley that doubling the provide a cheaper and more efficient Bendeela Pondage and the constraints capacity of the pumping station will method for storing energy? that imposes. The feasibility study has make it easier for Sydney to extract more progressed to geological testing, involving water from the Shoalhaven. I doubt this drilling core samples to determine the Peter Stanton is driving the expansion. The existing composition and stability of the rock. pumping capacity is quite capable of draining Lake Yarrunga and the quantity transferred to Sydney is still limited by what is flowing into the Shoalhaven minus the environmental flow that must be Do you have a story or news released from Tallowa Dam. to share for the At present, Origin Energy must abide by the pumping rule set up in 2007 September edition of after the last drought, whereby Lake Yarrunga is only to be drawn down to The Voice? The current system has two sections: one metre below the spillway, except Deadline for articles: 20th August · Bendeela, with a capacity of 80 in emergencies. This gives them 7,500 Deadline for Ads: 15th August megawatts can transfer 4,800 megalitres megalitres to play with, pumping up to Please send all content to a day between Lake Yarrunga and Fitzroy Falls when demand is low and
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in the Passport Office. Against the odds, from Sydney Mary was posted to London - a real coup in the foreign service. But not long after, following the change of government in Australia in 1996, Mary found herself having to present policies on the environment, immigration and human rights with which she disagreed, and her position untenable. She resigned, which caused a Dr Mary Moran OAM huge scandal, because “No one ever resigns Mary Moran was born in the Snowy from London - it’s so hard to get”. All the Mountains, one of five children in an “Irish perks, such as car, schooling and cleaning, Catholic working-class family”, her father were immediately withdrawn. having emigrated to work on the Snowy Returning to Australia, Mary joined Hydro Scheme. They moved to Sydney Médecins sans Frontières as head of its before she was five, following the flooding ‘Access to Medicines’ campaign for three of Lake Jindabyne, and she recalls a photo years - first here and then in Holland showing the children in tears as their and London. Although Mary has nothing house was removed on a truck. but praise for MSF’s fieldwork, she found Her education started with “brutal its political campaigns were not always nuns”, after which she went to the local supported by evidence. Moreover, she public school. She then became the first prefers communication and consultation Above: Mary Moran, OAM member of her family to go to university. to a combative approach to differences of Her preferences for woodwork or home opinion. She eventually resigned. couldn’t afford to use it herself, and had economics were ignored and, on the Mary was most interested in research into to rent it out. She sold it after a couple basis of “terrible career advice” which and development of drugs for developing of years. But she really loved the Valley: directed any smart student towards law world diseases, and she prepared a “I kept meeting interesting people, or medicine, at Sydney Uni she studied brief for the Wellcome Trust, a wealthy and realised this was a very different medicine, as well as history, German and research charity based in London, seeking community”. So she kept coming down French. “Med school was like learning to £250,000 for research into why there here, in time winning a ‘Little Pigger be a car mechanic: if problem X comes in, were no modern drugs for neglected Award’ for being the most frequent guest you do Y; there’s no room to manoeuvre”. diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and at Little Pig Creek. In 2013 Mary bought After graduating in 1981, and the usual sleeping sickness, and how this could be a block of land in Rectory Park Way, and internship and residency at various changed. The Trust agreed, on condition two years ago she was finally able to build hospitals, Mary chose emergency that an institution be found to sponsor on it the house where she now lives. medicine. “Coming from a family like the research. The London School of Mary’s advocacy has achieved mine, with lots of noise and chaos, Economics duly obliged and, in 2004, considerable success in raising funds for emergency, with little hierarchy and no Mary set up a research team there. research into drugs and diagnostics to time for politics, was just perfect for Their first, fact-based report, dispelling replace those, some over 100 years old, me”. She tried being a GP for six months, many popular myths about the reasons which have proven less than effective. To as a locum, but found it boring: “No one for inaction by governments and drug take one example, in 2017 the Australian seemed sick enough to me. They were all companies, “caused a bit of a sensation”, government increased its previously on their feet”. She stayed in emergency receiving widespread publicity and modest contribution to $75 million over for 12 years. attracting the attention of governments five years. Mary loves working in her field I asked Mary if that had left any time for and the World Bank. Mary’s team became because it has such a big impact. “People a personal life. In her early years, she the leader in their field. The Gates hear the bad stories, but often don’t “had a lot of fun”, living in inner cities Foundation (the world’s largest charity) hear the good stories. We have an Ebola in England and Germany, as well as in subsequently invested some half a billion vaccine now, which is more than 95% Darlinghurst. But then she was with her dollars a year into developing new drugs effective. There have been a whole bunch partner Matt for some 13 years, and their and vaccines for neglected diseases. of new malaria drugs made, which work son Paddy was born in 1993, when Mary In 2006 Mary set up a team in Australia, really well: there used to be about 500 left emergency. She and Matt separated and for a few years she moved between million cases of malaria a year, and that’s some nine years later. London and Sydney, finally establishing now down to about 300 million. And child Having tired of medicine, Mary started an her own business ‘Policy Cures’ in Sydney mortality from malaria, AIDS and other undergraduate arts degree, comprising in 2010, with many of her staff following diseases has halved. Every one of these post-Soviet studies, German and English her. But in 2016 she decided it was time dollars works.” literature. She responded to a newspaper for another career change. “We’d been In June this year Mary was awarded the ad by the Department of Foreign Affairs giving all these reports to clients, with no Medal of the Order of Australia for service and Trade and, after a year of tests, control over how they were used. Often to medical research, and to global health exams and “fake cocktail parties”, and they kept the reports to themselves.” initiatives. a post-graduate course in foreign affairs Wanting to devote herself to the advocacy and trade (entitling her to “Grad Dip FAT” side of the project, seeking to ensure that Tony Barnett after her name), she was accepted into the the message gets to those who can do foreign service. The obligatory two years something about it, she passed the business in Canberra followed, after which she was to her then Number Two and refocused her expected to apply for a diplomatic posting. work on advocacy for new medicines. But the lack of opportunities there for In 2007, to escape the pressures of Matt in the film industry led them back to working in the city, Mary bought a house Sydney, and Mary to an administrative job in Kangaroo Valley. Unfortunately, she Page 8 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au August 2019
skill sessions for Karen, her son and his girlfriend, learning to use 3D scanners, high spec cameras, etc. and the pattern recognition required to identify a ‘rock’ as an artefact, ie a human-made item and not just another rock. Triva Questions:(answers on page 33) (with thanks to Michael Wolstenholme) Karen and her companions arrived in South Africa in a hot February and spent the first six days in Cape Town, going to the university to prepare for the start of 1. Which is the largest city in Europe At our July meeting we were entertained the season. The ten-person crew finally by population? by a talk from Karen Harrison, who had left Cape Town for Cederburg, driving in recently been to South Africa on an four separate vehicles. The reason for 2. During which year did British archaeological trip. Karen started by this study was to further investigate new sovereignty of Hong Kong end? telling us how she decided she wanted evidence for earlier human occupation something more in her life than horse in the area which had been found in 3. What does the Latin phrase equestrian coaching and being a mum of sediment stacks near the river. The ‘Ars gratia artis’ translate to in three boys. She decided to go back to artefacts being discovered were dated English? university as a mature aged student, and from the early stone age. began studying for a PGEG Bachelor of 4. Which English singer has a son Science. Thank you so much, Karen, for such an interesting talk. called Zachary Jackson Levon? In Semesters 2 and 3 she also took on three electives, plus one compulsory Members who were not at this luncheon will 5. Which company takes its name subject: Earth’s Interconnected be unaware that VIEW Australia has decided from the Danish for ‘play well’? Spheres, Climate Change, Living in a to discontinue the saying of the Pledge and Grace at the start of each meeting. Material World and Archaeology. She 6. Which fashion house presented was introduced to the concept of ‘The Next month’s speaker will be the manager their fragrance Perfume No.1 in Anthropocene’ - essentially the proposed from the Lady Denman Museum at Huskisson. 2011? time it has taken humans to become Please contact Tania Roach on 0428 580 so powerful in their influences of the 444, or by email at tanianrobin@icloud. 7. Coulrophobia is the fear of what natural world that they rival the impact com by lunchtime on the Monday before type of people? of geological forces, such as ice ages the meeting if you will be unable to or a volcanic eruption. Archaeology attend. We are charged for bookings that 8. Which singer got her hair caught was a subject Karen had never been are not filled. in the blades of a fan as she was interested in before, but towards the Anyone who is interested is welcome performing in concert in Montreal end of the term a trip to South Africa to come along to our meetings to find in July 2013? was announced. Karen’s first thought, out more about what we do. If you are being a responsible mother, was that interested please contact Penny Rose on 9. ‘Travels with Charley: In Search of she could never do something like that, 4464 2384. America’ is a travelogue written by not with three boys at home and other which American author? responsibilities. Her second thought was: “I could do it”! The lovely thing about it Margaret Lamb 10. Which country’s internet domain was that when she told her family (after is .za? they thought she had gone mad) her son asked could he go with her. 11. Who became the presenter of There followed many extra tutorials and the UK television show ‘Antiques Roadshow’ in 2008?
12. Ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed by having which creature dropped on his head by an eagle?
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Slow Food Dinner supporting sustainable food in KV Residents and visitors to Kangaroo Valley’s from Kangaroo Valley growers such along with beautifully prepared Kangaroo regular farmers market will have seen as Beauridge Farm for Alexandra’s Valley vegetables from Fox and Quail and Slow Food Berry2JB volunteers on the eggs, Kangaroo Valley Olives and EVO, Terrawah Farms. Chef Nick will serve up ground at the FIG Community Garden Kangaroo Valley Harvest veggies, Fox equally delicious vegetarian mains, also and Slow Food combined stall. Slow Food and Quail honey and veg, Terrawa Farm cooking a dish for the mezze course. participate so as to help the Valley’s veggies and Yarrawa Estate nuts. Lyn Hampden Deli’s Nick and Stevie are Slow micro-producers bring their own produce and the volunteers from the Friendly Inn Food members and awardees of the to market. Community Garden will be contributing internationally coveted Snail of Approval Slow Food is an International movement some of their beautiful garden produce. Award 2019, recognised for exceptional with numerous distinct local communities All served to the sounds of the Mike sustainable food practices in their café, around the world, each working for Hammond Quartet playing smooth jazz … restaurant and cooking school. When the the human right to Good, Clean, Fair later upping up the beat for those who’d Snail of Approval Awards were made in Food. Caring for the local land, its like to stay, chat or dance after dinner. March, Kangaroo Valley featured highly sustainability, eating local seasonal good Dress code: smart casual/cocktail/not in the lead-up with a number of Valley quality food for which growers, producers your farm gear.For further information or farms or cafés meeting the Good Clean and workers are paid fairly are central to dinner bookings you can go to Slow Food’s Fair Food criterion. Amongst the Valley’s its concepts. website: slowfoodberrytojb.com.au. other awardees were Kangaroo Valley Longtime residents of the Shoalhaven, A hands-on conversation table will Olives, Terrawah Farm, Target Creek and Marilyn O’Dowd and Jenny Crosby, showcase the producers and ingredients Kangaroo Valley Harvest. established the Slow Food Berry2JB served throughout the dinner. Displays of Chef Tony Milroy, of The General Café Community in 2018 so as to be able to herbs, fruit and vegetables on the long Kangaroo Valley, and his partner Monique focus at a grass roots level, specifically tables will be able to be taken home by are also recipients of the Snail of on supporting and promoting Shoalhaven’s guests. A range of local wines and beer Approval Award 2019. Their respect for small growers, producers and chefs. It will be available at the Slow Food For the land, its produce and harmonious works on encouraging food businesses Charity Bar. food preparation is reflected in their and locals in their efforts to create Dining consists of a mezze course, café’s delicious food and their store’s biodiversity and sustainability. The main course and a dessert course, each organic ‘Mrs Bread’ sourdough. Much of membership base, interest in and prepared by multi-award winning Valley the produce used in Tony and Monique’s community involvement of the not- chefs. As respective courses are served, dishes at the Slow Food dinner will come for-profit group has grown in leaps and Victoria from Slow Food will briefly share straight from their own sustainable bounds in its first year. Marilyn and the fascinating story of each chef’s food farm, Nandini, and from Terrawah Farm. Jenny believe this shows our region’s journey, then introduce the chefs. They will also be serving their own eggs, genuine interest in our food quality, For the main course, Hampden Deli and Kangaroo Valley milk, honey and citrus, the environment and sustainability, but Dining School Chef Nick Gardner will warmly exchanged with Kangaroo Valley say that we each need to keep moving prepare local Angus beef from Target neighbours for their beautiful bread. forward, doing more. Slow Food Berry2JB Creek Farm, in a whole food nose-to- Chef Tony and Monique will prepare a is run solely by volunteers, with all funds tail approach. Nick says respectfully botanical welcome drink and contribute raised going back into education and to appreciating the whole animal, rather than a beetroot-inspired dip for the mezze local and international charitable food eating only tenderloins, is his preferred course along with their organic ‘Mrs garden projects. The group participates and more sustainable approach to cooking Bread’ sourdough. Tony’s key dish is the in Shoalhaven awareness projects such meat. In a food adventure each table beautiful dessert course. as World Environment Day Expo; they will receive different sections of Nick’s are helping to build local food industry malt-braised beef. It will be presented Victoria Milton networks and they present food events for locals such as the Kangaroo Valley Long Table Sustainability Dinner. Slow Food’s August 17th Dinner will highlight the remarkable range of growers, producers and chefs right here in the Valley - each dedicated to sustainable practices and producing exceptional food at every stage from paddock to plate. The dinner will be laid in a sociable long table format and accompanied by live cocktail and dinner music, commencing from 5pm in the historic Kangaroo Valley Hall. Aside from hosting a beautiful evening of food, wine and entertainment, the evening will bring locals and visitors together with opportunities for guests to chat and share ideas about food, sustainability and anything at all. Marilyn says that on arrival guests will be served a welcome drink and a range of canapés prepared by Slow Food - all prepared featuring ingredients Page 10 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au August 2019 Hampden Bridge Story Once Kangaroo Valley was opened to free Works, James Henry Young MP. He was settlement in the mid nineteenth century, accompanied by Robert Hickson, engineer, the population grew from 200 in 1861 to Ernest de Burgh, designer and Thomas This will be my final Chamber Chatter, as 1,400 in 1881 as dairy farmers flocked to Loveridge, contractor. a new committee will be elected by the the valley. The bridge was named after Lord time this issue is on the ‘shelves’. Thanks As the local farming activities reached Hampden, the then Governor of NSW. go to the committee of Pat Powell, a peak in the 1870s, it was decided to John King, a well respected dairyman in Secretary and much more, Alexandra construct a town span timber truss bridge the community, drove a ribbon be-decked Bruce our membership officer and social over the Kangaroo River. buggy with a pair of fine horses across the media liaison, Jan McGregor in charge The Hampden Suspension bridge was brightly decorated bridge and declared it of the VIB, and Geoff Fearon, and Mark designed by Ernest Macartney de Burgh, open for traffic. Schwegler. Committee time has been very assisted by Percy Allan. harmonious, enjoyable and productive. There were many fine speeches before Thanks also to Bruce Martin and Savvy Hampden Bridge was built to replace the a crowd of 400 people, and the official Sally Latham for always being at the end timber truss bridge of 1875-9, which was party was entertained in the National Hall of the line when needed, maintaining and in a state of decay by 1893. with a banquet. improving our website and social media The bridge was built at a cost of $16,764 The Importance of Hampden Bridge profiles. by contractors Loveridge and Hudson of The early cedar getters and dairymen who The KVCTC has done important work to Bowral. came to the Valley did so by following ensure Kangaroo Valley stays on the map, Hampden Bridge was officially opened by the ancient aboriginal tracks from the and Shoalhaven Tourism has boosted our Hon. J. H Young, Minister for Works and South Coast, the Southern Highlands profile with their marketing campaigns. If was name after Lord Hampden, Governor and by boat up the Shoalhaven River. you’re in a train station in Sydney, don’t of NSW 1895 – 1899. The Kangaroo River could be crossed at be surprised if you see Hampden Bridge Life in Kangaroo Valley before the various natural fjords but in flood times on a big screen, as I did recently. bridges this was a very dangerous practice. The members of the KVCTC support many The first bridge across the Kangaroo River Various settlements were established events in our town through their annual was of timber truss construction and either side of the river and had their own fee, and we have been open to any was opened in 1879 by the Member for churches, schools and Post Offices. Many reasonable request. Currently as sponsor Camden, Thomas Garrett. families felt isolated, though some social of the My Community Project we hope gatherings were held in private homes. It the labyrinth proposed by Cheryl Andrews Prior to this, those settlements north was particularly tough and lonely for the gets across the line. I encourage you to of the River; Barrengarry, Bendeela and women who helped with the farm chores, vote following this link: Upper River operated separately from organized the household, often educated Kangaroo Valley, Beaumont, Maguires, mycommunityproject.service.nsw.gov.au. the children and bore large families. Budgong, Wattamolla and Woodhill, on $20,000 is the target grant. the southern bank. The township of Kangaroo Valley We have re-established the green developed trading centres, a school, The river could be crossed on horseback, credentials of the KVCTC with campaigns hotels and social facilities ahead of at the fjord when the river height made to eliminate straws in our town and Barrengarry, Bendeela, Budgong and this safe and the mail came from Moss reduce the use of plastic wherever Upper River, but commercial and social Vale three times a week. Older children, possible. The residents of Kangaroo interactions between settlers on the from the dairy farms on the northern Valley have always been environmentally southern and northern banks of the River side could ride their horses to the Valley focused, and now we challenge visitors to were mainly possible by the use of horses school which was opened in 1871, the our village to observe and take home our and bullock; so was limited. younger ones were taught at home. Other principles. small schools were built at Barrengarry, The building of the first wooden bridge Working with the Streetscape group to Bendeela and Upper River from 1874- in 1879 and the Hampden Bridge in 1898 bring about the recent maintenance and 1877. were important factors for change. improvements to the CBD has been very After the bridge was opened the Cobb Cobb and Co coaches ran frequently rewarding and, as some of the challenges and Co Coach services gave travellers between the Highlands and the South might have been side-stepped had we had easier communication between Bowral Coast, Mail deliveries were easier, goods a Community Consultative Body (CCB), and Nowra. The ‘Pioneer Hotel’ (which and services improved, an annual Show this may be for a future discussion. was destroyed by fire) and later the was organized and the social life of the I wish the new committee every success. ‘Friendly Inn’, located opposite, provided main village now included families from accommodation and the commercial and the outlying area. Population increased Alison Baker and with it greater economic prosperity. social life of the area improved. However the bridge deteriorated and in 1895 a Today the bridge is not only an icon and President decision was made to replace it with the a picturesque tourist attraction it is present day Hampden suspension bridge essential to maintaining this prosperity which was opened in 1898. and growth and the success of the many Six days later the old structure was vibrant social activities for both the local washed away in a flood. residents and the ever increasing number of tourists. Opening Day of the Hampden Bridge After two years of construction, on February 2nd 1898 the Bridge was This is an extract from www. officially opened by the Minister for visitkangaroovalley.com.au August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 11
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Iceland and Greenland I’m by no means the first Valleyite to visit Iceland, an increasingly popular tourist destination. Indeed, Belinda Web-ster reported on her visit in the Voice as recently as last November. Unlike her, I didn’t drive myself, but had booked Above: Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavik Above: Midnight ice a ten day group tour around the whole island, with an extra day in Reykjavik at old puppy. each end. Happily, the “group” turned I then boarded a ship, which can hold out to consist of only two - Mary, an about 250 passengers - a mixture of English widow, and me. We were driven tourists and locals who use it as a ferry by 31-year-old Jonas, a very keen cyclist from town to town, as there are no who rode up to 50km before breakfast connecting roads - for three days as we or after dinner each day; his bicycle sailed down the west coast, stopping at on the roof made it very easy for us to several towns en route. At some the ship spot our 4WD Mercedes in a crowded stayed for only 30 minutes, at others carpark. Fortunately, Mary was as keen for two or three hours, when I was able a photographer as I, so Jonas stopped to disembark and explore the town; in whenever we wanted to take a photo. one the on-board guide took tourists for The weather was unseasonably warm, and a tour, at others she provided us with a Above: Typical Greenland town - although I wasn’t tempted to emulate map. Common to all towns in Greenland Jonas in shorts and singlet - I re-gretted are the little multi-coloured houses. No having brought too many winter clothes and two adjoining houses are of the same not enough summer ones. The sun shone for colour - I believe by choice rather than all but two days, and we had no rain. regulation. Again unlike Belinda, I gave the For about 18 hours - from mid afternoon Phallological Museum in Reykjavik a miss, one day to mid-morning the next, a mist but more than compensated for that descended on the ship and sur-rounding un-doubted loss by visiting the western sea; with that exception, it was brilliantly fjords, which she missed. Everywhere the sunny, and again unseasonably warm, scenery was spectacular, and very var-ied. for the entire week I was in Greenland, Even the numerous waterfalls were all enabling me to admire, and photograph, different. According to Jonas, someone the stunning scenery. set out to count them all, but went mad I disembarked at Narsaq, where I when he got to about 4,000. experienced another highlight - a trip One reason I wanted to visit Iceland was in another, slightly larger, speedboat to to see puffins and, at two sites, I saw a distant glacier, which we (an English more than you could poke a stick at - couple, our guide and I) reached by most within a very few metres as they sat clambering over some challenging rocks. outside the cliff-side burrows where they Other small towns on the itinerary really nest. Others of the plentiful fau-na we saw didn’t justify their “City Tour”, but Narsaq is spread out, so the tour took all included countless Icelandic horses, a herd Above: Puffins of reindeer, a pair of Arctic fox cubs, seals, of 90 minutes. eider ducks, black swans and many strange Another speedboat (a little larger surprisingly it also boasted a restaurant birds whose names I promptly forgot. still) took us to my final destination - which would have deserved two hats From Reykjavik I flew to Ilulissat in Narsarsuaq, a “town” whose existence is in Australia. It was Independence Day, western Greenland, there to join wholly attributable to an airstrip which but sadly tiny Narsarsuaq didn’t stage another group tour I’d booked. This the Americans built in WW2. Several a firework display - or indeed any other time the “group” consisted only of me, years later (before Greenland gained form of celebration. autonomy) the Danish government but I was duly met, and accompanied, My hope to see a polar bear was purchased the airstrip, and turned it into by a guide at each destination. Two disappointed. Apparently they only an international airport, with flights to highlights of my whole holiday occurred appear on the east coast (I was on the Reykjavik (hence my being there) as well in Ilulissat: the first was a “Sunset Cruise” west) in March (I was there in June). as to other towns in Greenland. Apart around icebergs, in a small speedboat However, in all other respects Greenland, from the airport, Narsarsuaq com-prised which I shared with the driver and an like Iceland, exceeded my already high a large hotel where I spent my last night Australian couple, between 10pm and expectations. Moreover, with this trip I in the country, a café which called itself 12.15am, when the sun never set but finally reached my target of visiting 100 a disco, a diminutive muse-um and a the col-ours were magic; the other was countries, so I can now allow myself to small sprinkling of houses, so the city tour a visit to a large group of “Huskies” see parts of countries I’ve visited before. (actually, according to their owner, these was even shorter than usual. The hotel,
Greendlandic dogs are a different breed), including its cafeteria, felt as if it was Tony Barnett where I was able to cuddle a two-week- left over from the wartime airbase, but August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 13
Page 14 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au August 2019 KV Pump Track update Jeans for Things are still moving forward steadily with the Kangaroo Valley pump track. Thanks to everyone for their support and interest in this community project. Genes Day After considering several designers An initiative of the Children’s and talking with the Shoalhaven pump Medical Research Institute track committee we have decided to partner with Brett at Dirtz (https:// In 1972, the Children’s Medical www.dirtztrack.com/). Dirtz have Research Institute had moved to a designed many tracks, including the Westmead facility and the scientists one at Shoalhaven Heads, and Brett has expanded their work with an emphasis worked with several of the Kangaroo Above: An example of a pump track on genetic research. The dedication Valley locals who are keen to assist with was to find a cure for a range of our track. You can check out one of the community resources as possible, the childhood diseases. Dirtz designed tracks on this link: https:// project will still require fundraising. At In August 1974, to engage the public www.dirtztrack.com/apps/videos/videos/ this stage we are looking for anyone who throughout Australia, the ‘Jeans for show/19042741-gladstone-pumptrack. may have experience with, or knowledge Genes’ fund-raising concept was Please note that our track will be smaller of putting together, any local, state or launched. Suddenly there was a and at this stage will be dirt rather than business-generated grant applications. new profile, a way that enabled all bitumen. Another suggestion has been to use the communities throughout the country GoFundMe online platform to raise money to support this very important and life- Brett has come to the Kangaroo Valley and seek sponsors within our community. site and is currently putting together a saving research centre. To know that 3D computer generated concept plan that The KV pump track would be a community every donation helped in some way to will be used with our council proposal. project that promotes fitness, wellbeing find cures for things we used to call We discussed the objectives of it being a and encourages people to get active incurable, and made everyone realise facility that fits within the existing BMX outdoors. With initial support from the the enormous potential of this one track site, to appeal to a wide variety of local primary school, the Lions Club and special day a year. skill levels, to have several transitions the Kangaroo Valley Chamber of Tourism The Kangaroo Valley branch of CMRI and variety to keep it interesting, and the and Commerce, we are hoping to get the was the first committee to be formed, concept of a kiddie track as a separate project passed through council, and raise 60 years ago, and this township is still feature off the back of one of the berms. the required funds in order to start the dedicated to generously support the It was noted that this is an ideal site fun part of building the track and riding scientists in their research work that with slight but effective drainage, good it, in the near future. will make the world a better place for access via the current bike path, and Please contact me on davealijohnson@ all of us. close, yet not too close to the road. The gmail.com or 0409 903440 if you are able ‘Jeans for Genes’ is important for track is located in an open and visible to assist with obtaining funding for this the young people, who make the first area with an outstanding outlook of the project. Friday in August a jeans’ mufti day at valley, it could become a real feature and school and donate a gold coin. This is attraction of our community. David Johnson sent directly to CMRI on behalf of the Although we will be aiming to keep costs students. to a minimum and hope to use as many 25 years ago, it was a clever idea; now, because we all ‘get it’, this fund-raising opportunity will support ‘research that will change incurable to curable.’ During the first week in August, there will be donation tins at the following locations in Kangaroo Valley:–the Bakery, the Pharmacy and the Barrengarry Pie Shop. The money will be collected by the KV Committee and forwarded to CMRI, as a special donation from the residents and visitors to the township during that time. At the Farmers’ Markets on the LINCOLN CONSTRUCTIONS second Sunday in August, there will be a CMRI stall displaying interesting KANGAROO VALLEY BUILDING merchandise. Your kind support is very much Lincoln O’Toole 11 Cullen Cres appreciated. Builder Kangaroo Valley Any enquiries: phone me on 4465 1851 [email protected] 0414 551 648 Joan Bray August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 15
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Since December 2018 Betty’s Bar and As Lee Sharam commented to me – a are contributing to nurturing young talent Restaurant – The KVCC ( KV Coffee Co-op) great way to spend Sunday morning. and giving them a safe place to come and has been hosting the most wholesome event Thanks go not just to Martine, Gav build their confidence in front of a live for our talented South Coast kids on the first and Gabe at Betty’s ,but also to all audience. Thank you to all our regular Sunday of each month from 10am to 1pm. our parents who have helped me keep attendees – your support has been awesome. Teens and even younger rock up to play it running when I’ve had my own gig Give me a buzz if you’d like to be a part for Betty’s Sunday morning guests while double-booked! -To Linda our Pharmacist of the next one. Details on the flyer or they snack on Betty’s delicious produce (Mitch’s Mum) and Lisa (Jarrah’s Mum) – just rock up to check it out. and are warmed by their organic coffee. thanks very much for your support. The Catch you at the next ones - Sundays 3 Our participants include Mitch, Ori, Schweglers do what they can too with all August and 1 September. that time they have! Thanks to the Ross Jarrah, Maggie, Kaito, Ari, Soraya, family for your continued support of this Julaiha, Yumi, Cisco, Ross, Ma’tan and Jilly O’Dowd Marieke, who generously share their tunes monthly event. Thanks to Danny Ross, on guitar vocals, piano and drums. Many Baxter Stone, Adrian Morgan and Jeremy Top left: Kaito on piano originals and covers are on show. Butterworth for their mentoring and contribution along the way, and to Ross Top centre: Ross filming So far it’s been a beautiful music Top right: Maggie performing Carter for some amazing pix and videos experience – sharing their talents and on Youtube of the event. building their confidence in a relaxed, supportive, wholesome, organic, fun, Basically you all rock! funky environment with great food, vibes, If you haven’t dropped into one yet, ‘Do coffee and free live entertainment. yourselves a favour’ KV community and get along doggies. It’s chilled and fun and you
PUBLIC NOTICE The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) are conducting a 1080 fox baiting program in the Kangaroo Valley, Budgong and Illaroo areas for the protection of the Endangered Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby. The baiting is conducted on various private properties, Council Reserves, NPWS estate, WaterNSW estate and vacant Crown land. In addition, in response to increased wild dog activity 1080 wild dog baiting is also being undertaken within NPWS estate.
All bait stations in this program are permanently baited throughout the year. Therefore, these properties will have poison on them from today right through to 30th June 2020. This baiting will be conducted using both 1080 buried baits and 1080 (above ground) ejector devices at the bait station locations. Do not touch any bait or ejector devices. Each property being baited is sign posted with the baiting dates and which baiting methods are being used. Dog owners are reminded to ensure their pets do not wander. 1080 is lethal to domestic dogs and cats.
A map indicating the approximate location of each bait station is being hosted on the Friends of the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby website at www.rockwallaby.org.au. For any further information please contact Jessica Sharp at the NPWS Nowra Office, on (02) 9585 6670. August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 17
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On 5 July, the last day of Term 2, staff suited their individual creativity. steady and secure, not affected by the and students of Kangaroo Valley Public The students were given time to prepare change in weather or random hikers School experienced the sixth workshop their vision boards of a minimum of walking all over them! They remained of a seven part well-being program, ‘The approximately eight images and words, serene and mighty on the inside Four Cs HUB’, HUB standing for ‘Happy as a listing and description of what they throughout all their experiences. Unique Beings’ and the Cs ‘Calm, Clarity, wish to achieve and/or acquire in life. We then covered the five steps to Confidence and Creativity’. We discussed and differentiated material Manifest their goals on their vision Workshops so far: gain from services to their community and boards, and went on to present them to 1. Letters of Gratitude – learning to say the long-term benefits of both kinds of each other in small groups. One or two ‘thank you’ to all sentient beings. ‘visualisations’. Both types were included from each group then presented one of on their boards. The wonderful outcome their colleagues’ inspiring boards to the 2. The Art Of Giving – accessing was that in typical KV public school whole class. So listening to each others’ resources for no cost at all and giving that style they redefined the word ‘board’ to goals in the small groups was key for this gift. include amazing pop up books, papier- presentation to work. Hard stuff for the 3. Dream Big – Think Happy Be Happy mâché globes and funky tactile colourful little ones but they pulled it off! 4. CREATE workshop – individual boards. Well done kids! Interestingly, the hardest challenge was expression. The activity is based on a simplified for them to spell the word ‘Believe’ 5. SAFE – Safe, Action, Freedom, Evolve version of Julia Cameron’s in ‘The Artists with their bodies lying on the floor in a -practising ‘Boundaries’. Way’ – a 12-week program of activities group, so that a drone snap shot picture 6. Visualise and Manifest – attaining to help each individual find their ‘voice’ would make out the word from above what’s on your ‘vision board’. and ‘path’ in life. I’ve successfully taken but - and here’s the thing - with ‘no young adult students on this course at talking’, just observation and figuring out [©️Jillian O’Dowd Feb 2016] The London School Of Dramatic Art with where they should ‘fit in’ to complete the Visualise and Manifest good results. I’ve also been the student in affirmation. It’s harder to get this done This touched on some themes of ‘Dream previous groups in Australia. when everyone has an opinion. Noble Big’ but involved completely different We started off with calm, a minute’s still silence, observation and working together activities. The Dream workshop had a silence to increase their concentration tend to prevail in these fun tasks. A case ‘cloud’ theme. levels, feeling their breath, then fun of ‘too many cooks’ makes it harder to ‘V and M’ had a more concrete device focus games to sharpen their minds. We achieve results. using ‘Vision Boards’, hard copy and then did a lie down visualisation for them Look forward to our final instalment in digital, depending on which format best to imagine they are a strong mountain, the K-6 cycle of this wellbeing program, ‘Abundance – we are bigger on the inside’. Thanks to KV public school staff, students Your one-stop-shop for all your everyday and weekend needs and principal Andrew Smee - another awesome creative experience to help Open 7 days a week • 7am - 5pm develop happy healthy lives for our kids and ourselves along the journey.
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Among adults, flavourings, preservatives and emulsifiers, those using sweeteners did use less sugar, that time, the main the ingredient list would have to put worry was not that sugar would lead to but made up for the missing kilojoules by sugar first. However, if the company eating more of other foods. Children who obesity, since that was rare. Our concern uses 10% each of four different sugars, was the damage sugar does to teeth. used sweeteners also ate as much sugar the ingredient list would start with oats, as other children of the same age. Dental health has always failed to attract followed by coconut, then the different How much sugar is safe? proper attention, and governments sugars and the remaining ingredients. We don’t need any added sugars for ignore the fact that teeth are part of the Some of the different sugars on Choice’s health, but most of us enjoy sweet foods. body. Such ignorance may occur because list include honey, raw sugar, coconut The real issue is the quantity. individuals rather than government pay sugar, brown sugar, malt, sucrose, the costs of tooth decay. dextrose, glucose, maltose, fructose, After reviewing the evidence, the World By 1979, Australia’s first dietary goals lactose, invert sugar, palm sugar, fruit Health Organisation suggests all types advised limiting added sugars. The food juice concentrate, grape syrup, rice of added sugars should contribute no industry lobbied hard against this, but syrup, corn syrup, maple syrup, agave more than 10% of our daily kilojoules, thankfully advice to limit added sugars syrup, carob syrup, barley malt, golden and preferably 5%. For the average went into Australia’s dietary guidelines syrup, muscovado, turbinado, panela, adult, that equates to a maximum of 50g and has remained there in every revision. molasses and treacle (the last six are all (equivalent to 12 cubes) of added sugars Such advice has been strengthened by forms of partially refined cane sugar). or, preferably, 25g. many studies now showing that a high Other sweeteners More than half the Australian population intake of sugar is a major factor in over two years of age consume more Saccharin was discovered 150 years obesity, as well as having a role in heart than this upper limit, and 90% exceed the ago and is still used, but companies disease and many types of cancers. preferred limit. Among children, almost in Australia are more likely to use three-quarters of 9-18 year-olds exceed Food labels newer ‘intense sweeteners’ such as the upper recommendation, and 97% of The food industry lost its desire to wipe alitame, acesulfame potassium (Ace K), 4-18 year-olds exceed the preferred limit. added sugars from the dietary guidelines, aspartame, advantame, cyclamates, but it has continued to win its campaign neotame, sucralose, steviol glycosides The real problem is that over 80% of all against food labels listing how much sugar and thaumatin. added sugars in the average diet are in junk foods, with sugary drinks by far the has been added to a food. They prefer to Stevia is the current favoured sugar biggest source. list ‘total sugars’. replacement. Being derived from a plant, Total sugars includes the naturally it’s often regarded as ‘natural’, but the As those who have stopped adding sugar occurring sugars in milk, yoghurt, highly processed form used in processed to tea and coffee can attest, tastebuds do fruits and, to a lesser extent, in many foods is a far cry from anything natural. adjust to unsweetened drinks. vegetables. The natural sugar in these Food Standards Australia and New Zealand There’s no need to give up all added nutritious products is not a problem sets an acceptable daily intake (ADI) sugars, but there is definitely a need to and listing total sugars confuses some for each of these sweeteners. The level limit their use. people who think sugar has been added to considered safe is usually well above products such as milk or natural yoghurt. what any adult is likely to consume. But Back in 2011, an extensive government while none of the approved sweeteners report advised that added sugars should has been shown to be directly harmful in be included on food labels. Health the amounts likely to be consumed, that Ministers have been deliberating this doesn’t necessarily make these products topic for the last eight years. Sadly, desirable. at their recent bi-annual meeting, in Most intense sweeteners are popular spite of a general agreement that food because they have virtually no kilojoules, labels needed to change, they once unlike the sugar they are replacing. again postponed making a decision. I can However, studies show that those who use only assume the heavy lobbying by the intense sweeteners may have no success processed food companies works. You may with weight loss. be able to hear my sigh! The evidence for or against sweeteners Added sugars is muddled by studies funded by artificial Individual names of all ingredients must sweetener companies claiming positive be included on food labels, listed in their weight loss in people using their products, order of prominence in the product. whereas those funded by the sugar Choice has found many consumers don’t industry report the opposite. understand that many of the more than Independent studies show potential 40 different types of sugars added to problems with intense sweeteners doing processed foods are just basically sugar. virtually nothing to curb hunger as well as August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 23 Page 24 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au August 2019 August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 25 Page 26 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au August 2019
got knocked over as well. What a treat, transforming the landscape, one paddock at a time. And then the real Landcare activity, a cuppa or a beer, a splendid afternoon tea, chatting and catching up and hearing the community news. Bob reported that Brogers Creek Landcare Rewilding Australia has acquired an What a great afternoon that was. For the infrared scope, which should make fox Brogers Creek Landcare monthly working shooting more successful. Phil announced bee, Peter and Eva Bishop told the brave that his brilliant wife Liz has been band of 26 Landcare volunteers what they awarded an AO for services to Dentistry. wanted – clear away all that sprayed and A reminder about Weedwise, the new dead lantana from along this bench, and website and App (only for iPhones so far) toss it over the edge. We want to put a with all the info on weed ID, control and fence along the top of the slope, so our management. darling cattle have a bit more grass to For those unfamiliar, Brogers Creek eat. And beware – its pretty steep over Landcare comprises both resident and the edge. non-resident landowners and their friends, It’s not the sort of job that Brogers Creek who get together on the last Saturday Landcare usually do. Mostly, we cut and afternoon of each month, to work on each paint lantana or privet, clearing weeds in other’s land, helping to tackle the current bushland. Though sometimes we also pull priority issue to the owner. fireweed or grub out tussock. On this day, 27 July will be at John and Alexandra’s, there were a few grumbles – a tractor cutting a track through the lantana to could do this job in no time. What about allow control on a forgotten slope just these shrubs – do they go too? People east of the private road. 31 August sees Top & Above: The clearing work completed by were a bit hesitant at the start – how do us at Upper Brogers, somewhere over Brogers Creek Landcare we do this? the causeway, with Susan, Trevor and But a few souls started to cut into it, Janet. On 28 September we’ll be back everyone got enthused and bingo, a at Priddles Lane, helping David with the cleared bench. Plus, as a bonus, the lantana in one of his gullies. All are 2.30 lantana on the slope above the bench, to 4.30 pm. All landowners and friends Article by Greg Thompson plus the lantana to the west of the bench, are welcome.
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can work really well with most seafood frequently created from a blend of and light white meats, as well as some different vintages, with the aim of smoked fish. Wines like Henkel Rosé NV, creating a consistent ‘house style’. The Chandon Rosé (Yarra Valley) or Taittinger exception to this particular rule is that, in Champagne Prestige Rosé NV are able to an outstanding year, vintage Champagne meet all needs when pairing with food, so and vintage Port will be made. In both Spring Wine Guide long as it’s not too spicy. (Have an apple cases, it is down to the producer to As the dread of winter lingers on we cider instead!) decide whether a year is sufficiently good must remember that in less than a The other style of lighter bubbly is slightly to produce a single vintage wine. month spring is coming. Of course, the sweeter, like a pink/white Moscato, Why do different vintage years matter? vitality of spring not only happens to Prosecco or sparkling Sauvignon Blanc, The answer lies in the weather. The the weather and the birds and bees, but which all have great fruit flavour matched micro-climate of any particular wine- more importantly in the garden or in the with some floral aromas and are just growing region varies, sometimes quite vineyards where we start to see the onset perfect for fresh fruit and cheese platters, dramatically, from one year to the next. of buds bursting from the hibernation of desserts and even the odd high tea! If Different grape varieties respond to winter season. The vines have stocked up you’re not a sparkling type person, there different climatic conditions in their all the necessary nutrients and are ready is still hope with still Rosés made from own particular way. On the whole, for to spread their vines and start on next Grenache or Pinot Noir, or even the very instance, Syrah/Shiraz responds particular year’s vintage. famous Mateus Rosé that still is as great well to dry, sunny conditions that favour As we know, it’s also the start of the value as ever but with good flavour, the ripening of its sugars, a key ingredient Spring Racing Carnival, the run up to length and perfect slightly chilled. This of its heady, alcoholic kick. That’s why Christmas parties and the many parties is a flashback to those early days when growers in South Australia’s Barossa Valley that spring up because the weather is so we were very young and looking to have been particularly successful in good and we really didn’t need much of impress! Most of us had tried these wines, producing wines made from this grape. On an excuse. In general I’ve always liked the especially Mateus, but forgot just how the other hand, Sauvignon Blanc responds sparklings - especially Champagne (when good they are - particularly in spring and well to somewhat cooler, damper I can afford it) for this time of year; it on a warm lazy Sunday afternoon down by conditions, which is why it thrives in the works in well with most light salads, all the river. Try something new, look around Loire Valley, France and in New Zealand’s seafoods and party canapés, and best of at different bottle shops or online and take South Island. all it doesn’t try to over-dominate them. a punt on something different. Drinking Poor weather conditions – those that the same wine over and over again is not In fact, let’s just say I wouldn’t ever are not appropriate for whatever grape getting the best of a really big market of say no to Champagne! One of my variety is being grown – are the true test flavours that’s looking to be discovered. favourites is Taittinger NV Brut Reserve. of a good producer, for it is his or her At around $55-$60 it’s great value, has Frequently asked questions knowledge, skill and experience, through a high percentage of Chardonnay in the What is Vintage? manipulation of the vinification process blend, and provides the elegance and A vintage wine is one made from grapes and skilful blending, that extracts the lightness that makes it almost ideal for that were all, or primarily, grown and best possible performance from the all occasions. I will do a more in-depth harvested in a single specified year. Almost grapes. It is said that a great winemaker article of sparkling wines from around all still wines come from a single vintage, can create a good wine from poor grapes; the world, but this month it’s just about and the labels on the bottles will show the but a mediocre winemaker will only make getting back into the spring-time groove year in which the wine was made. an average wine, even he has if a harvest for bubbly. You can even mix it up if you of perfect grapes. feeling frisky with a Rosé style, which is Fortified and sparkling wines, including If you have any more FAQ please let me very fresh and shows lots of appeal. It can Champagne, tend to be non-vintage, know. I’m happy to add at the bottom of be slightly savoury with some bubbles and however. This is because they are my monthly articles if I have room left. Page 30 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au August 2019
young people working for a new astro touring company called Mirador (View of the Sky) that specialises in astronomy tours to the high altitude observatories and the clear dry skies of Atacama. Our luxurious bus conveyed us through a Last month I asked for a bit of help with half-hour tour of yet another fascinating the weather Gods on July 2nd, hoping Chilean city before a trip of one and a to arrange about ten minutes of clear half hours north to the centre line. For sky in Chile at just the right time for the 50km north of the city we could see cars, Total Solar Eclipse. The good news is your buses and tents of some of the estimated humble correspondent has returned from 300,000 visitors to La Serena who had camera ticked away happily every second Chile with a smile on his face. The trip taken up places on the farms lining the or so without further interference from was really successful. My brother Chris highway. its owner. And what an eclipse it was! and I travelled for about eight days but, After 90 minutes we disembarked at a At 4.38pm the joined Sun and Moon were due to the dateline and the 12 hour time farm called Tres Cruces (Three Crosses) 15º above the horizon, and the high dry difference, it worked out to about five in the La Higuera district, which had air of our desert vantage point gave us a days on the ground and the weather was failed due to a debilitating ten year magnificently clear view of prominences perfect every day. I wish it had been more drought and has been re-purposed as and the elusive corona. than five days! Chile is an amazing and a desert holiday and astronomy camp. interesting place, a wondrous country This was easily the best eclipse I have After enjoying a sumptuous three course that is starting to emerge, not entirely seen. By far the best part of my day was lunch (with wine of course as we were in unscathed, from decades of political sharing the experience with my brother Chile) we were carried in 4WD buses to oppression in many forms. There is a and the very friendly co-travellers in a perfect west-facing observation point great energy here. our group. I was able to help others in on top of a hill. There were shade tents, our group understand a little of what Chris speaks a reasonable amount of lounges and chairs and toilets. We were they were seeing and, with some spare Spanish, and the genuine openness and one of about five groups that had come equipment (some of which I had made), interest that most Australian travellers from Japan, Boston and other US Cities, I was also able to assist many with show to people in other countries was England, Australia and other countries. imaging the early stages of the eclipse reciprocated and helped us create On a mountain behind us to our east we for themselves. The naked eye view was many new friendships. I sit on the fence could see the many domes of the La Silla better than any image I am yet to see, between the fully managed holiday and observatories. so try to remember this: if you travel to the backpack off the beaten track travel, About 200 people were to set up here see an eclipse yourself, don’t miss it by but if you only have a short time the with equipment ranging from the naked worrying about images. pre-booked holiday experience with a eye to the most sophisticated imaging tour company can work well. Having our Our return trip from Tres Cruces was technology. In my case I used a Canon EOS flights, transfers, hotels, many meals slightly unnerving as it took six hours 550D camera with a 400mm telephoto (especially breakfast), guided day tours because the traffic was so heavy. At lens. Of course I had a full aperture and travel to the best eclipse viewing 12.20am the morning after the eclipse, solar filter for the stages before totality site already organised turned out to be after running through the deserted and after but during the two minutes a really good decision for such a short airport, we lifted off from La Serena with 13 seconds of totality the filter was trip. While the guided tours were good, only ten minutes to spare before the removed (this time by my able assistant we also had a little spare time to explore airport was curfewed. We finally retired Chris), and we hoped the atmosphere was Santiago and Valparaiso on our own. to our beds in Santiago 23 hours after we clear enough to image totality in sharp started our eclipse day, tired, excited and Eclipse day, July 2nd, dawned for us detail. On this eclipse day I programmed very happy. at 4am in Santiago. After re-checking and focussed the camera through my We were escorted on our trip by cameras, notepads, tripods, cables and notebook computer using a program professional British astronomer and other essential day trip items, we met the called Backyard EOS. While I watched the educator, Colin Stuart, our wonderful group (and a few who had joined just for glorious eclipse with my naked eye the the day) in the foyer at 5am for coffee, Chilean guide Paula Farfon and Wilbert tea and pastries. Not off to a good start? Below: Our guides Colin Stuart & Paula Farfon Ramos from Peru. They made huge efforts Just kidding. With our brown bagged with a fellow traveller every day for our comfort and enjoyment, breakfast we were bussed to the airport and I can’t thank them enough. and loaded on a charter jet for a one hour I have returned from Chile elated and flight north to the city of La Serena. As a energised in my astronomy and looking bonus this jet flew quite a lot lower than forward to my next eclipse. Next month normal, and we had a great view of lots I will report on the Lunar eclipse that we of Chile from the air. On the ground at La experienced on 17 July. Serena we were met by a dozen happy Clear Skies. August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 31 The Schools of Kangaroo Valley This is an introduction to the early ‘Cranbrook’, was not suitable because schools of Kangaroo Valley. Some had frequent flooding of two creeks made short tenure, others longer and more access difficult and within three years colourful existences. Their histories make the building was too small for the the interesting reading and more will be told increasing number of pupils. So a new in future articles in the Voice. school was built on the second site and By 1880 14 schools had been established named ‘Jerrunga’. It operated from 1886 in the Valley area, which was then home to 1921. to a population of over 1000 residents. Families who attended Jerrunga were The enrolments were spread between Walkers, Mc Leans, Wright, and Condon. the schools and so 400 children were It was still in good condition at the end receiving basic education. of its tenure, so was moved to a new Above: Bellawongarah School, 1905 The first school was a ‘Dames School’ at site in 1923 and did excellent service as the Nugent’s home. Eliza Nugent and her Bellawongarah, another outpost of the Upper Kangaroo River school until 1969. husband operated the first post office, Valley, on the Berry Road, had the same Dorothy Arnold and her three children all situated between the village proper and difficulties as other remote areas in the attended this school and Gordon Arnold Maguire’s village, a few kilometres east quest for satisfactory schooling for the recalls watching the Moon landing from of it. Eliza wished her children to be children and many had large families. It the TV in Parrish’s home. When the school educated, so she taught them herself, operated as a part-time school from 1874 closed the pupils went to the Kangaroo and other children were welcome for to 1944. Valley Primary by Doidge’s bus service. a small fee. There were 60 children of There was a school for aboriginal children The bell was donated to the Pioneer school age in the district by 1868. set up by Hugh Anderson, in 1890, but it Museum. Some families who attended the school were Parrish, Keevers, Sharman, The Kangaroo Valley Primary opened on did not survive. Nelson, and Love. 1 April 1871 and Thomas Hird was the Now something of the schools of Upper River. The last school to mention is Fountain first teacher. Originally there were eight In 1877, Kangaroo River Public School Dale. It was in Robertson and children eager minds, but within a few months Mr opened and James Ball was the first living around Flat Rock would have a Hird had his hands full with 55 students. teacher. It was situated in Kelly’s Road. It shorter distance to walk to this school The school was built to accommodate closed in 1915 after the outbreak of WW1. 50. The department paid for the teacher than to Upper River. They made the Then Hillcrest was established near and two thirds of the cost of the building journey via Dodd’s Pass. It serviced the the junction of Kangaroo River and – the directors were responsible for the area from 1881 to 1910. Five members of Gerringong Creek in 1888. The site was shortfall. The three roomed residence the pioneering Faulks family from Bunkers completely unsuitable and heavy floods was attached and Christopher Binns was Hill made the three hour round trip to prevented regular attendance from the builder. this school, but admit their attendance pupils. It became terminally ill and very was not regular! As there was no bridge from the northern unsafe. This building was replaced in 1923 I hope you have enjoyed this glimpse into side until 1879, logs were laid across the with the Jerrunga School building, river causeway with a hand rail for safety. the entertaining history of the Valley In 1883, permission was given for the But some families lived too far away to schools and will look forward to other establishment of a provisional school in make the journey and there were only historical articles in future months. Keogh’s Road, and another site resumed inadequate tracks. So a series of part for one on the Berry Road end of time provisional schools were established Joan Bray Walkers Lane. The Keogh’s Road school, in the more remote areas. The historic Barrengarry School operated from 1880 to 1942, the Beaumont School (on the left of Moss Vale Road on the way to Nowra) from 1874 to 1949, and the Bendeela School was built by the community just past where the power house is today, in 1876. It functioned until 1926. Budgong Gap was still further away from the main village centre, but this did not deter the early settlers who constructed a single room school house in 1884. The school was part-time with Bendeela, Kangaroo Valley Upper, Beaumont, Woodhill and Bellawongarah. The building was constructed on Randall land on the back road to Nowra over Budgong Gap, at the aptly named School’s Creek. It closed in 1930. Wattamolla/Woodhill School had a colourful history and will be the subject of a detailed account of its 1880-1950 tenure in another article. The old building is now a private residence. Page 32 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au August 2019
What’s flowering in the bush in August cousin of the humble stinging nettle) in sold at the Village Green Nursery) can Tennis players have been enjoying the Upper Kangaroo Valley, and the small but be found among the large rocks at the sounds of flowering over the past month. brilliant red flowers of the Forest Oak. lookout. At the end of the fire trail is Parrots feeding in the eucalypts during Not all flowers need to be big and in your the Yellow-top Ash, a local Mallee. It is the day, while the flying foxes have been face to be a delight. very distinctive, with ‘large still leaves feasting after dark. There are about a We are approaching the heath flowering and stately somewhat drooping habit’ to dozen Swamp Mahagony trees (Eucalyptus season on the sandstone plateau in the quote Les Robinson in my Field Guide. He robusta) that were planted when the west of the Valley. In recent days, Michael says that the fruit appears beside Joseph park was developed. Swamp Mahagony is Cox, David Brinson and Belinda Watson Banks on the $5 note. I checked. It’s loved also by ecologists, as it is one of the also did reconnoitres along the Three not. But my guide was printed in 1994. few species that flowers in mid-winter, Views walk, to see what plants have If anyone has the old $5 note, can you a time when food is scarce for all types started flowering. While flowers were still check and let me know. of blossom and flower eaters – including scarce, we counted 14 different species in • Finally, as you get back in your car, possums and gliders. bloom. Some of the standouts were: take note of the Xanthorrhoea, or Grass We are also seeing the first flowering of • The two species of Banksia, B Tree, which is just sending up its scape wattles, the usual sign of the end of winter spinulosa and B ericifolia, are present. with a dense spike of white flowers. and sunny days ahead. Black wattles They have very similar orange flowers, Enjoy. are the first in line - some were already with hooked black styles. Greg Thompson, flowering by mid-July. Love them or hate • Close to ground level are two Michael Cox, David Brinson and Belinda them, their colour will dominate the colourful species - the beautiful Grevillia Watson landscape over the next couple of months, bauera, a small shrub with perfect as their pollen feeds numerous species of red spider flowers and the native Iris, insects, birds and mammals, while their Patersonia sericea, or Purple Flag, with a roots pump nitrogen into the soil. large three-petal purple flower. People with a sharp eye and a keen • Close to the first lookout are two interest might also see the tiny, numerous special species. The pink-flowered flowers on the giant Stinging Tree (the big Crowea, a small pretty shrub (frequently August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 33
The Museum Windmill parts in some types of electric motors. 650 litres per hour. Visitors to Pioneer Village Museum will The wires had to be routed up the central Provision also needed to be made for have noticed a large Southern Cross axis of the tower which houses the limiting the mill speed in stronger winds. windmill and tower located at the pump rod and, by fabricating a smaller Although the Southern Cross windmill western end of the ornamental pond. diameter pump rod, sufficient clearance has an ingenious method of furling the was created to allow room for an annular The windmill was erected at the sail (the sail is offset from the vertical tube to carry the electrical wires to the museum in 1976, having pumped water rotational axis of the mill so as the gearbox housing. for many years at Reg Cochrane’s farm wind load on the sail increases it turns at Barrengarry, where it was erected The next problem was starting the mill. parallel to the wind and therefore is less alongside Barrengarry Creek. The 3m diameter sail and gearing has a effective), due to the very small pumping large inertia and cannot be brought up head (about 2m) additional safeguards When it was erected at the museum, it to operating speed in 1-2 seconds, which had to be devised. was originally intended to pump water is the typical ramp up time for a single from a borehole dug near the pond to The method used was to install a phase electric motor. This was solved by keep the pond full, but it was found constant flow valve (or flow restrictor) that rock layers close to the surface on the pump outlet together with an prevented completion of the bore, so air chamber (an old scuba diving air the windmill was erected as a display. tank) .As the mill speed, and hence the In order to prevent it from operating in flow rate, increases, the flow restrictor windy conditions with no load, the vanes diverts the excess flow into the air on the sail were installed backwards, chamber, compressing the air and thus thus ensuring it would not overspeed and increasing the load on the mill and cause damage. controlling the speed. The windmill has now been operating for some months In 2016 the Museum Trust decided to and has performed very well through try to make the windmill operational recent strong wind events. Overall the as a feature for visitors, and in 2017 project took some 12 months of work the Wednesday volunteers group began by the group, who have now started the planning to restore it to circulate the next project - the restoration of a large water in the pond, providing an example wagon. of an operating windmill. Everyone is welcome to come and join in One of the major considerations in the on a Wednesday, so if you are interested planning process was to ensure that the come along for a cup of coffee around windmill would operate when visitors 10am and meet us for a chat; there is were at the museum, but of course having always plenty to do! no control over when the wind would blow meant that some other system had installing an electronic control system to be devised. with a 3-phase motor, where, (without Logan Apperley After considering possible solutions it was going into a lot of detail), the speed decided to install a small electric motor in can be controlled much more easily by the gearbox housing at the top of the mill varying the phase angle. The control which would operate during opening hours, unit used allows a wide range of ramp- and of course whenever the wind was up times, and so the unit is set to ramp Answers to trivia questions from page 8 strong enough it would also pump water. up to the sail full speed (16rpm.) in one To begin the restoration the mill had minute. This ensures that the initial 1. London torque loading on the motor and drive to be disassembled and removed for 2. 1997 modifications. After some repair work to is not excessive. The drive system also the working platform at the top of the had to be designed to allow for over- 3. Art for art’s sake speeding when the wind was blowing, and tower, the six vane sections (each with 4. Elton John three blades) were removed and then the this was achieved by using a chain drive gearbox and stub tower were lowered and freewheeling system to connect the 5. Lego motor output shaft to the main mill axle. using a crane. 6. Abercrombie & Fitch The design and fabrication of the electric So far so good. The next task was to drive was quite a challenge. First, a purchase a suitable pump. A siphon pump 7. Clowns was considered to be the best option for method of routing a power cable to the 8. Beyonce gearbox on the top of the tower had to the proposed use. These are typically be devised. Because the mill always faces mounted above ground and used for 9. John Steinbeck. 1960 the direction of the wind, it has to rotate pumping from a river or dam where only a small suction lift is needed, compared to 10. South Africa .za (stands for Zuid- freely through 360º, so a simple electric Afrika) cable connection was not possible. the deep well pumps which are normally below water and ground level . The pump 11. Fiona Bruce This was solved by using a slip ring – a chosen has 75mm bore with a 300mm rotating three wire contact device used stroke and at the windmill rotational 12. Tortoise to transfer electrical current to rotating speed of 16rpm. delivers approximately Page 34 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au August 2019
June-July call outs within the station and appliances to A relatively quiet month compared with provide appropriate emergency coverage. the last, despite recent high winds and Both Council and local RFS district office drier weather. have also been incredibly supportive. With the donations received, the brigade 1st A call to an MVA on Cambewarra has taken the view that the station fit- Mountain which turned out to be a out and appliance equipment should be collision between a car and cow. The cow suitable for the long-term protection of was returned to its paddock and the car For updates, find the Kangaroo the community, and hence certain items recovered by a tow truck. Valley Rural Fire Brigade on were upgraded by the brigade with this in 2nd An agricultural burn-off high on Facebook as @kvrfs mind - e.g. stainless-steel work benches, the hillside to the west of the village added storage, improved training generating plenty of flame and smoke. facilities and building security. Health and The burn-off was registered and under the team, made up of current and ex-valley Safety were paramount with washing and control of the land owner. No action was members (including our current captain, uniform locker facilities added to ensure required. Dusty Smart) covered over 70km in a contaminated clothing was not taken to 3rd A late evening call for a large branch 24-hour period. They had been previous and stored at members’ homes. that had come down across power lines two-day event winners, returning to the The RFS is investing heavily in IT, and on Green Valley Road. The power lines longer version after competing in the hence brigades need to ensure they were resting on a fence line with the risk one-day event for the past six years. have devices and services that can that the fence could also be energised. Conditions were extremely cold with -5ºC take advantage of new applications. Visible smoke and arcing were monitored temperatures and snow falling during To improve efficiency, connectivity and to ensure a bush fire did not develop. The the event. The Shoalhaven was well response times, new fire ground radios brigade waited until Endeavour Energy represented on the winners’ podium, with (used between crew members), on had made the lines safe before removing the Shoalhaven NSW Ambulance team appliance radio charging and mobile the branch. taking second place and Nowra SES the service boosters on all appliances are 4th A call to a structural fire close to top-placed SES team. being installed, collectively costing the centre of the village. Despite an The KV Fireys’ Bastille Day pétanque approx. $10,000. The RFS has already extensive search no fire was located. The reign came to an end on Saturday. A installed new GRN radios (used for state- Triple-0 caller was eventually contacted close semi-final loss after a strong group wide communications between local and a pile burn behind a Council shed performance and then scraping through brigades and the RFS) to provide vehicle may possibly have given the impression the quarter-finals after a come from tracking as per the Bega Valley Fire the building was on fire. Thanks to West behind win with the last toss of the Independent Review recommendations. Nowra, Shoalhaven Heads and Beaumont match. Well done to Berry, the Fireys’ Further enhancements will follow as brigades for also responding with the semi-final conquerors, and the eventual automated vehicle tracking systems are latter two reaching the village before the competition winners Wollongong Whalers developed to improve response times and call was stopped. with the trophy eventually leaving the resourcing for specific incidents. News valley...until next year! Congratulations With these new services additional and thanks to all those who put their time A combined team from Kangaroo Valley ongoing operational costs have increased, and effort into the organisation to make and Jamberoo brigades has taken out this including application subscription and it such a great day for all that even the year’s Emergency Services Navigation high-performance Internet services adding wind couldn’t spoil. Shield held over the weekend in Kanangra to regular expenses such as fuel and Boyd National Park. The Navigation Shield Community involvement electricity. Additional equipment has been requires team members to traverse The community continue to be purchased over and above that provided rugged country with just a map and exceedingly generous and supportive of by the RFS to enhance capabilities compass and to plan and collect the the local brigade. in-line with the typical incidents the brigade experiences - e.g. additional most points possible by visiting specific The building is owned by the Council and chainsaws and blowers. Higher quality locations of differing value. The winning the NSW RFS are responsible for providing helmets with improved torch mounts a certain level of fixtures and fittings Below: Bluey highlighting our group form and a shame that we couldn’t maintain it through Below: Emergency Services 2-day Navigation Below: Hybrid and Electric Car Awareness to the final. Shield Winners 2019 Training August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 35 have been purchased to improve member safety, as many incidents are typically after nightfall. All capital and operating expenses have focused on enabling the brigade members to provide the highest Kangaroo quality service to the local community Kiama Coast Walk and RFS for the long term. I don’t know why we thought this walk Some advanced notice of the Get Ready Valley went from Kiama to Gerroa, nor why Weekend scheduled for Saturday 14 - most unusually - we set off without September between 10am and 3.30pm a guide book. Whatever the reasons, at the station on Broughton Street. This on 21 July eight of us drove to Gerroa, will be a great opportunity to meet local Bush Fire intending to leave one car there, the brigade members and discuss activities believed end of the walk, and two at around bush fire planning and awareness. Kiama, at its start. We got to know the Further information and details of other streets of Gerroa rather well, before related activities will follow in future Firey Plan we stopped to ask a shopkeeper and Tales articles and on the brigade’s Facebook discovered that the walk in fact ends at page. You can also see for yourself where Gerringong. Eventually we left one car the community’s donations go. there at Werri Beach and drove to Kiama, Burn-off notifications where the signposts to the Coast Walk There are still mandatory notification Work is steadily progressing with were tantalisingly intermittent. requirements for burning off outside ore people volunteering to take up coordinator roles. The Upper River But we did find the start of the walk, the Bush Fire Danger Period. Details are and the glorious weather - sunny and provided on the brigade’s and Community community has been very active, but the aim is that we have total coverage unseasonably warm - quickly made us Group’s Facebook pages and NSW RFS forget our tribulations in finding it. The website. Permit officers can provide of the Valley with a great plan and communications. walk took us past Kaleula Head, Marsden advice on burn offs even in the non-Bush Head, Easts Beach, Loves Bay and Blare Fire Danger Period. The Kangaroo Valley Bush Fire Buff, round Werri Lagoon and to Werri Committee is looking for active Training Beach, where we had lunch. The coastal community members to volunteer for The brigade attended a hybrid and scenery was spectacular, and we even saw neighbourhood and locality coordinator a couple of whales. fully electric car training session at the roles. The following areas of the Valley Cambewarra station, to understand the need your help: According to the signs at each end of the risks associated with MVAs involving these walk, it was 6km long, but we all agreed types of vehicle. Car manufacturers do Village and surrounds that must be as the crow flies. While not make quick identification of such cars • Jacks Corner writing this, I couldn’t resist taking a easy, with little or no decal to indicate • Mt Scanzi ruler to the map in the guide book, which electrical fuels. Our existing trainees are • Wattamolla has confirmed our belief. The path took progressing through their bush firefighter us up hill and down dale, and round every training. New members are welcomed at • Barrengarry bay, and we were convinced that we’d any time. • Budgong walked twice the advertised distance. Contact • Bellawongarah We all agreed that the walk more If you would like advice or assistance • Beaumont than justified our difficulties in finding where to leave the cars. I can strongly regarding burning off or have any other The work is not difficult and the recommend it, but I can’t promise that questions, check out our Facebook page current coordinators can assist with all you’ll have the perfect weather we (https://www.facebook.com/kvrfs/). the planning you need. If you would enjoyed. If you do not have access to Facebook like to help, contact me (mattlor@ please call the station (4465 1718) or bigpond.net.au) and I will put you in I advise bushwalkers of each walk a week email the brigade (kangaroovalleyrfb@ touch with the appropriate people. in advance. If anyone wishes to be added gmail.com) for further contact details and to my group email list for that purpose, information, including the captain and please let me know on koko.kv@icloud. permit officers. Any emergencies require com. Matthew Gray a Triple-0 call immediately. Tony Barnett Chairman Gary Matthews
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Finish: 12.30pm Venue: Beaumont RFS Fire Station, 899 Kangaroo Valley Road, Bellawongarah. Contact: [email protected] Get Ready Day Loo Taylor (Secretary) - 0416 754 272 Beaumont Brigade is hosting a community Can you help by bringing some morning information session on how to prepare tea? your property and yourself for the bushfire season. We want to have a morning tea break at the ‘Get Ready’ community information • Are you concerned about how best session, but we need some help. We’ll Left: ‘Get Ready’ day morning tea to prepare your property and yourself for provide tea and coffee, but we’d love Centre: ‘Get Ready’ day the bush fire season? people to bring a plate of finger food Above: ‘Get Ready’ day presentation • Are you new to this area and unsure to share. Think sandwiches, cheese of what you should do if fire threatens? and crackers, fruit platter, dips and, of Thank you for your donations • Do you have questions about your course, cake! The brigade has had a great response bushfire survival plan? Please email us at beaumontvrfb@gmail. from the community to the donation • Are you complacent about bushfire com.au with your name and what you’d drive. The funds have already been put to risk and think ‘it won’t happen to me’? like to bring, and we’ll give you more good use for the purchase of warm, fire- info. • Do you feel you need a refresher on resistant jackets, a portable floodlight your bushfire knowledge? and more helmet torches. We are also Free, helpful information and questions putting some of our members through answered. professional driver training, so we have RSVP - please let us know if you’re coming more drivers for the fire truck. by emailing us at beaumontvrfb@gmail. Email: [email protected] com.au.Tell us your name and how many For updates visit the Beaumont Brigade will be coming. Facebook page: Date: Saturday 17th August. For updates, find the Beaumont RFS https://www.facebook.com/ Start: 9.30am. Please arrive a little beaumontbrigade earlier so we can start on time. on Facebook as Morning tea will be provided. @beaumontbrigade Loo Taylor
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The big preschool fund raiser for 2019 is just about to happen. “Comedy for a Cause” will present fantastic stand-up comedians at the Kangaroo Valley Hall on Saturday 3rd August. Come along for a great night of entertainment which will also support the preschool building fund. Thank you to everyone who collected supermarket stickers for the preschool. We ended up with 266 sheets of stickers – the most we have ever collected! Above: The first kidness jar The educators have chosen some great resources using the vouchers this amount the findings and recommendations in the of stickers generated. We will post some Above: The Comedy for a Cause lineup report with two local building companies. photos of the goodies here and on the KV It became apparent from these discussions Preschool facebook page when they arrive. that one of the biggest hurdles to Our preschool engineers have been Jacinta Perry implementing the recommended repair and designing lots of complex towers and upgrade was the extent of partial demolition News from the committee castles with the wooden building blocks. and the amount of time required. Last month we received the structural The children have worked out many ways In August the preschool committee will engineer’s report for repair and upgrade of to combine the building materials to investigate all potential options before the subfloor beneath the main classroom. create amazing structures that can be seeking community response. In the stable enough to play with. The original classroom was built in 1877 interim, preschool will divert surface water “At the core of engineering is the idea of as the schoolroom for Beaumont Public runoff and exclude wombats from under making ‘things’ work or ‘things’ that work School. Following the school’s closure the building, as per recommendations from better.” (Royal Academy of Engineering 2014). in 1949, the classroom was relocated the engineer’s report. to Kangaroo Valley Public School. In Our kindness to each other at preschool We will keep the community informed as later years, the building was extensively is being represented by ‘Kindness’ jars. things progress. altered to become the preschool. We discussed what “being kind” means, Given the building’s history and extent and then the children and the educators Brad Hawthorne put a pretty glass bead in a jar when of renovations and extensions, aspects they do something kind for someone. We of the subfloor are undersized by President have filled two jars in no time at all! How today’s commercial building standards. many will there be at the end of term Therefore, the recommended engineering three? It has been fantastic to see how specifications to repair and upgrade the the children are finding ways to show subfloor are extensive. kindness to others. During the school holidays, we discussed
Above: Compiling sticker sheets Page 38 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au August 2019 Sports Report Golf third, on a countback, with 33. It was cold and very windy on Saturday 13 On Saturday 22 June we had good roll-up July for the Par round. What a start. My for the Stableford Competition, and it first drive was with the wind and finished was comfortably won by Robbie McDonnell 150 metres from the green. Haven’t done with 39 points. Gordon Thomson was that for years. My second shot finished second with 36 points. It was a tight 10 metres short of the green. This wind tussle for third place as three players is great, I thought. I quickly changed my finished with 35 points. It was decided mind as my chip shot landed perfectly, by a countback and awarded to a visitor, just short of the hole and the wind kept Brent Tedesco. the ball rolling past the hole and didn’t It was a cold morning on Saturday 29 stop until it was way down the back of June, so we were glad of the 8am tee-off the green. That was how the day went. Above: Looking back to the 2nd Tee time for the Monthly Stroke and Medal Sometimes the wind worked for you Below: Members enjoying a Club BBQ round. A visitor, Killian Donnelly, was and at other times against you. Peter in excellent form and won the Stroke Dumbrell handled the conditions best and competition with a net 69. Allan Harvey earned first place by finishing square with was second with a net 71. This also won the card. Mark Grant and Ron Bower were Allan the Monthly Medal, his third for the close behind with scores of -1. Mark was season. Peter Wheeler was third with a placed second, on the countback, and Ron net 72. third. We played a Stableford Competition on Until next time. Saturday 6 July and it was won by David Crossley, a visitor from Cronulla Club, who scored 37 points. Mark Grant was second Seventy Plus with 36 points and Tereyne Grant finished August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 39 The Directory - Home Services
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Although this book is distressing to read, be considered by the reader. The fact it is also compelling reading; the topic is that there are deadlines for a book to powerful and holds the reader’s interest be completely read forces the reader to the last page. There is loyalty, bravery to confront issues which normally may and betrayal to be found amongst the not be a choice, and therefore opens pages and perhaps, if the reader searches the mind to different points of view. The The Yellow House by Emily O’Grady deeply, a little bit of love hidden away. subsequent discussion can frequently cause a reader to assess the book again, The Yellow House was the choice for our Why are book clubs so popular? which is a very good exercise for the book club in June. The story is related Recent research has shown that the brain. through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl popularity of book clubs in Australia is called Cub who has a twin brother, far greater than in most other countries, Meeting other readers regularly can Wally, and an older brother called and is increasingly so. This trend has been form friendships and help reduce social Cassie. Along with their parents, they occurring in city and country areas for isolation. Book clubs can also generate live on the outskirts of a small town on the past 20 years and shows no sign of other debates on current social topics, an abandoned farm, which was once slowing down. The research shows there which can be lively and enjoyable. a knackery. Over the nearby fence is are numerous interesting reasons for this Hearing others’ opinions can introduce a yellow weatherboard house, where to be happening. new ideas, which might not occur without group thought. dreadful atrocities were committed by The format of book clubs is mostly Grandfather Les years ago and, although the same everywhere, namely held Reading is an inexpensive pastime; he is no longer alive, the memories of his in someone’s home, although some anticipating and forming views for the actions remain vivid amongst the local groups prefer to meet in a neutral next discussion nourish a desire to belong community. environment like a library or café, which and for one’s opinion to be heard. As an The parents are completely burdened eliminates the stress some people feel added bonus, the inclusion of hospitality, by the horrors of the past and, in spite about hosting at their home. Reading such as a cup of coffee or a glass of of having nothing to do with the crimes, a book independently can be quite a wine, provides an escape from the rush they are ostracised by the townspeople. different experience to reading a book of modern life and helps people to step As Cub grows up, she is bewildered by with a group of other people, and a off their individual treadmill for a couple the behaviour of the people in her small book club can provide a forum for a of hours in a relaxed and nourishing world. The lives of all the members of her wide variety of opinions whilst bringing environment. Book Club anyone? family are desperately lonely and sad; people companionship and intellectual their struggles to cope with the brutal stimulation. Jan Watson judgment of other people manifests Book discussions can help the mind itself in types of behaviour that are very to think quickly and introduce new The Bevy Book Club confronting. aspects, which otherwise might never
In last months Lions Roar we reported one of the recipients of the Franz Mairinger OAM award incorrectly. The award was given to Councillor Greg Watson. Apologies for our error. Lion Howard Above: Jill and Howard at the pump track Above: Joan Bray Howard Carter Graham Smith Carter was awarded a Melvin Jones fellowship. Congratulations to them all. back excited to be involved in something organizational formulas. They have no that would be of great value to our young borders. They are the essence of Lions. As Joan Bray was not available on the locals. If the past 100 years have taught us night of the change over dinner she can Have you considered joining your local anything, it’s that as we serve, we grow. be seen here receiving her Presidents And we were never meant to stop. Service appreciation award ably assisted by Lions on their journey to a better community? is our journey. Let’s explore it together. Graham and Howard. If you are interested in joining the Lions The start of the Lions Service Journey On the 14th July some of your local Lions family please reach out and let one of us is adopting an approach to living and went out to the Shoalhaven Heads pump know. You would be made to feel very serving well. When you are a Lion track. Pictured here are Lions Jill and welcome. Howard chatting to the locals so they people can see and you can feel yourself can better understand how a pump track making a difference. The Service journey works and what needs to be done. The encompasses four simple phases: Learn, Lions present at the inspection came Discover, Act, and Celebrate. We love Lorraine Mairinger these words because they transcend August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 47 Community Contact Information
EMERGENCIES Police 13 1444 or 4421 9699 WEEKLY EVENTS Ambulance 000 Mon – Fri Bus Service to Nowra and Highlands 4423 5990 Poisons 13 1126 Mon –Tues-Thurs Mass St. Joseph’s 9 am Integral Energy 13 1003 Mon 1-3 pm Women’s Bible Study Lifeline 13 1114 Anglican Hall 4465 1585 Fire 000 Tues 10-12 and 6-8 Iyenga Yoga 4465 1364 Storm and flood SES 132500 Tues Cuppa and kids Sunday School Hall from 9-30 am SCHOOLS and CHURCHES Wed KVRFS Training at Station 6pm and meetings Preschool Jacinta Perry 4465 1327 1st Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. P&C Darrell Guiltier Wed Mass St Joseph’s 7 am (NB No Mass on Fridays) Public School Andrew Smee Wed Pioneer Village Museum Conservation Group Scots College Jeff Grundy 4465 1089 from 9am finishing about 4pm Anglican Church Andrew Patterson 4465 1585 Contact Werner Bayer 4465-1058 Sunday School Jeanette Dumbrell 4465 2708 Wed Kangaroo Valley Poker Group Catholic Church Parish Office 4423 1712 The Friendly Inn 7pm Wed 6-8 pm Iyenga yoga 4465 1364 CHARITIES and SERVICE GROUPS Wed Drama Classes for teenagers at The KV Hall CMR Institute Joan Bray 4465 1851 Wednesdays 5pm-6.30pm. Lions Club Helen Mairinger 0431 355 725 Contact Jillian O’Dowd 0468 309 530 VIEW Club Penny Rose 4464 2384 Thurs FIG Community Garden Remexio Partnership Libby Turnock 4465 1357 10am-12pm 0414 737 547 Environment Greg Thompson 0473 114 026 Thurs 1-3 pm Women’s Care and Share - Wildlife Rescue South Coast 0418 427 214 Anglican Hall 4465 1585 Wires 4862 1788 Sat Mass - St. Joseph’s Church, 9 am Sun Anglican Church 4465 1585 AGES and STAGES 8.30am Traditional service Cubs/Scouting Nicholas Carlile 4446 0591 10 am Contemporary service and Cuppa and kids Kate Hole 0432 177 206 Sunday School Mass - St. Joseph’s Church, 11 am SPORTS and EXERCISE Bushwalking Fran Pritchard 4465 1599 Cricket Club Hugh Sinclair 0435 001 294 MONTHLY EVENTS Fishing Club Vinnie Winch 4465 1448 Wed (1st) Wed (1st) Valley Trivia at The Friendly Inn 7pm Frisbee Mark McLennan 0439 456 356 0407 466 890 Golf Club Gordon Thomson 0408 674 920 Proceeds to the Kangaroo Valley Public School Hockey Club Sharon Gomez 4465 1580 KV Rural Fire Service meeting Pilates Melinda Mangold 0404 483 680 7.30 pm – Fire Station Pony Club Karen Barker 0407 928 994 Contact Mike Gorman 4465 1540, 0447 651 540 Rowing Club Gerry Garrett 4465 1419 Mon (2nd) Environment Group – 6 pm – Rectory Close Tennis Club Peter Stanton 4465 1688 Contact Greg Thompson 0473 114 026 Yoga Vasudha Rao 4465 1093 Mon (3rd) A and H Meeting – 7.30 pm - K.V. Hall Iyengar Yoga Rose Andrews 4465 1364 Contact Mairi Langton 0412 180 778 Upper Kangaroo Valley Landcare Working bee. OTHER ORGANISATIONS Contact Belinda 0466 065 768 Alcoholics Anonymous Rick 4465 1113 Tues (3rd) Bushwalk Brogers Creek Landcare Andrew Fitzsimmons 4465 1482 Contact Fran Pritchard 4465 1599 Budgong Community Group Alex Cooke 0418 440526 for confirmation and location of meeting place Chamber Tourism & Commerce Alison Baker 0405 379 393 Tues (4th) Lions Club Contact Helen Mairinger 0431 355 725 Historical Society Garth Chittick 4465 1367 Tues (2nd) Pre School Meeting FIG Community Garden Lyn Rutherford 0414 737 547 Tues (2nd) KV Historical Society 10-30 am to noon FYRE Karen Harrison 4465 1699 Contact Garth Chittick 4465 1367 KV Arts Festival Nick Minogue 0414 732 514 Thurs (2nd) P. and C. Meeting – KV School KVCA Wendy Caird Fri (2nd) View Club General Meeting and Luncheon [email protected] 12 pm – locations as advised KV Sustainable Sat (last) Brogers Creek Landcare Land Management Group Jan Johnson 4465 1593 Contact Andrew or Liz 4465 1482 KV Fire Station 4465 1718 Sun (2nd) Kangaroo Valley Farmers Markets KVRFS Captain Dusty Smart 0412 865 638 Sun (last) Fishing Club Competition Day 4465 1540 Contact Harold Sharman 4465 1140 K. V. Show Mairi Langton 0412 180 778 Sun (varies) KV Pony Club (in Osborne Park) Osborne Park Hall Jacqui. Lenz 4465 1272 contact Victoria Salkeld 4465 2520 Pioneer Museum Tony Barnett 4465 1800 Rock-Wallaby Melinda Norton 4887 8256 BI-WEEKLY EVENTS Seniors Support Tony Barnett 4465 1800 Upper River Progress Assn Sarah Butler 4465 1364 Thursday: (1st and 3rd) Men’s Group - 7.30 pm Contact Bob Dunn 0429 399 609
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