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Proudly published by ABN 58 129 541 706 February • March 2018 Issue 76 Australia Day Honours Australia Day was celebrated across Indigo Shire Certificates of Achievement were awarded to Dave Martin Miranda was awarded the Emma George on the 26 January with events in Barnawartha, Crook, Yackandandah and District, Kathryn Chivers Sporting Scholarship for his dedication to his local Beechworth, Chiltern, Kiewa-Tangambalanga, of Beechworth and District. and Rita Ryan of club, the Wodonga Diamonds. Martin, a 16-year-old Rutherglen and Yackandandah. Each venue Barnawartha and District. Soccer Player rom Beechworth was also selected to featured entertainment, community meals and a flag be part of the Seniors Team. ceremony, followed by the presentation of Indigo Dave, who has been in the Yackandandah Garden Shire Australia Day Awards. Club for 10 years and was former secretary of the Community Organisation of the Year was awarded Scouts for 6 years, spends many house maintaining to the Black Dog Soup Kitchen, Chiltern. Every The awards celebrate the contribution of individuals, the beauty of Yackandandah’s streets. Wednesday the Black Dog Soup Kitchen provides community organisations and businesses. They pay tasty and nutritious meals to those who need it. They tribute to those who make extraordinary contributions Together with his wife, Rose and other Yackandandah also deliver meals to around 26 disabled and elderly to society or who are outstanding achievers in the Garden Club members, Dave is frequently seen residents who are unable to leave their homes to Indigo community. Former St Kilda coach Stan Alves weeding the garden beds, spreading mulch, and attend. was the Australia Day ambassador for the Indigo maintaining the planter barrels. Shire. We can all be proud of this year’s award Young Citizens of the Year was awarded to the Tan- Kathryn is a founding member of Plasticwise winners. gambalanga Action Crew who came together in June Beechworth and a member of Plasticwise Indigo. She 2017. The Crew organised and ran their first com- Every community needs someone like Peter was instrumental in bringing soft plastic collection to munity activation project, the Kiewa-Tangambalanga Croucher. Peter is the proud recipient of this Beechworth. Mini Music Fest in November last year. years Australia Day award for Citizen of the year. Kathryn has strong pride in her Chinese heritage and Peter gives his time to almost every aspect of our More coverage, page 3 the history in the Beechworth area, and a passion to community life: sport, culture, education, the elderly, educate and share it with others. service clubs and fulfilling civic responsibilities. Pictured above: Our Australia Day award recipients: Rita Ryan of Barnawartha and District, is well known His involvement in and commitment to the towns (L-R) Front row: Martin Miranda, Rita Ryan, Kathryn around the Murray Valley School for the disabled, of Kiewa, Tangambalanga and Yackandandah add Chivers. Back Row: Stan Alves, Dave Crook, Peter the Barnawartha Primary School and Wodonga enormously to the quality of life of residents. Croucher. Secondary School. Visit Yackandandah’s visitor information website, call in at the Old Post Office, and make sure you take your visitors there. There are some great people there to help you www.exploreyackandandah.com.au Yackity Yak Feb • March 2018 1 YACKITY YAK Yackity Yak is a free bi-monthly publication aimed at A Ramble with the Editor providing news, entertainment and information to the Hello everyone, people of Yackandandah. For those of you who dable in social media, YY also has a renewed presence on Facebook. Please head Yackity Yak is published by YCDCo (Yackity Yak) Pty I am delighted to introduce myself as your new YY to the ‘Yackity Yak - All the Yak about Yack’ page. Ltd. and 1,500 copies of Yackity Yak are printed with Editor, in this the first edition for 2018. each release with a minimum of 900 copies distributed So much has happened this year already. Christmas Michelle handed over the reigns in January free of charge to homes in the Yackandandah and and Australia Day seem so long ago but we still following the completion of her last edition for 2017. surrounding area via Australia Post. have thanks and congratulations to pass on. We are We would like to thank Michelle for all of her about to slide head on into Folk Festival festivities Submissions are welcome, encouraged and valued, hard work and for her assistance in the handover and shortly after, Easter. although the editor reserves the right to edit reports for process. It certainly is a challenging gig. As we welcome many visitors into our town, we can the purposes of space. Submissions should be approx I appreciate your patience as we move our 300 words. certainly be proud of our streetscape, our friendly deadlines to suit not only upcoming events, but and busy retailers, and the locals who give their time your ‘Editor in training’ as well. CONTACT DETAILS 2018: and energy to ensure this town remains a wonderful There is plenty of wonderful news to share in Editor / Advertising / Printing / Accounts place to live and visit. Yackandandah. I look forward to meeting many of Rebecca Busby Please make sure you share your wonderful pictures Yackity Yak, C/- Yackandandah Post Office, you and encourage residents and businesses to of your Folk Festival experiences and local special High Street,Yackandandah VIC 3749 say hello and keep in touch. experiences with me via email and I will share as Phone: 0435 131 330 Please send in your story ideas and promotion many as I can in the next issue coming out just Email: [email protected] material either by email or by dropping in your hard before Easter weekend. copy to the Post Office. A big thank you also goes Yackity Yak wishes to advise that the views and to Chris for providing this service to YY. or remarks expressed in this publication are not That’s all from me. Your community newspaper relies upon your necessarily the views of Yackity Yak editorial or feedback, input and your contributions. production staff, and no endorsement or service is Have fun and stay safe, Bec. implied by the listing of advertisers or contributors. Advertisers, please ensure you renew your Although every effort is taken in reproducing and advertising schedules for 2018 asap by completing printing advertisements correctly, we take no a booking form. Discounts apply. responsibility for errors. 2018 DEADLINES: Yack wasp eradication efforts April / May Edition No. 77 5pm Monday, 19 Mar June/ July Edition No. 78 5pm Monday, 14 May Yackandandah Wasp Busters By Phillip Newman * Please note that all advertising must be paid in full prior to that issue deadline. We can make no Dear Yack Wasp Busters, exceptions. All new advertisements or alterations to current advertisements must be submitted one Interesting times in the wasp world. Reports of wasps These wasps may investigate the meat in the bait sta- business week (5 days) before the deadline. hesitant to enter bait stations, nests reported to Indi- tions but will choose not to feed on meat, preferring a As per media law requirements, no advertisements go Shire and local pest controllers and the questions sugar based diet. We do not bait with sugar as it will can be printed without a current, completed and signed about the suitability of the chemical we are using. attract bees and potentially kill off hives. booking slip. Please contact the editor for the booking slip. We discovered a batch of chemical sent to Beech- It is impossible to eradicate wasps in Yackandandah worth smell strongly of hydrocarbons i.e. it smelt like but we can control the numbers. That is the aim of diesel! On checking the remaining stock at yFuel and this project. Please keep sharing your observations a select number of containers purchased by residents on FB. In particular, we are interested in the number we found no smell in particular. We are still not sure of wasps observed (a few, many, a plague) and their why the Beechworth batch smelt so strongly however; locations. Thanks to everyone who has committed production dates are very recent for the Beechworth their time, dollars and effort to this project. From here batch compared to the batches in Yackandandah. Still on we are likely to experience more wasp activity, working on that one. particularly in the lead up to the Folk Festival and beyond. Nests on public land can be reported to If you open the chemical container and smell a strong Indigo Shire and on crown land to DELWP. Residents ‘petrol like whiff’, please talk to Dave at yFuel about are responsible for nests on private land. If you are exchanging it. We are trialling several other brands of uncertain or not confident on how to manage a wasp chemical to try to ascertain which has the least resis- nest on your land, please contact a local pest control- tant effect on wasps. We hope to have an alternative ler. Keep food scraps in bins and pet food covered in a week or so. when not in use. Maintain your bait stations and let us know what you are seeing. Wasps tend to a protein diet rather than sugar based foods as the nest develops though there are likely to Regards, Phillip. be both sugar and protein feeding wasps in a nest at the same time. Some of the hesitancy we are seeing PS. Although we are out of stock of Durga bait sta- may be explained by the feeding phase of individual tions at yFuel and unable to order more this year, wasps. For example, we have noticed a large num- there are wasp traps available.