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Facing the Future – Children Lead the Way FREE Issue 67 October 2020 Community newspaper Facing the Future – Children Lead the Way An arts-led renewal for Ferntree Gully In this issue: The children showed the way. Now the walks in Melbourne’s long lockdown Community Bank News page 5 Gully arts community is gathering to lead (see page 17). Knox Council News pages 8-9 renewal: of spirits, of shared spaces, of the These and other instances of Sports page 11 things we do together. Read about early imaginative ways to cope with crisis, give Here’s to small businesses plans for an Arts Carnevale (page 3). hope for a new ‘normal’ and stronger Meanwhile a ‘Spoonville’ community community links. pages 14-15 is growing in Koolunga Native Reserve Schools Pages page 18-19 in Forest Road. The neighbourhood has Photograph by Barbara Oehring What’s On pages 24-26 embraced this initiative, set up to enhance mental well-being for children on daily Village Traders Directory page 27 Free circulation to 9500 households and businesses in Ferntree Gully 2 Home Page We have confidence in our You are what this From the editor community book is all about! This book is a selection of stories and photographs gathered from the first fifty issues of the community newspaper, Ferntree Gully News. Part personal stories, especially of migrants who ‘made a home in the Gully’, part celebration of some of Victoria’s oldest sports and arts groups, part evocations of a special Don’t miss purchasing your Time to think place facing twenty-first century change, the book form gives Volunteer Community newspapers throughoutsome permanence to the ephemeral nature of a bi-monthly newspaper. It does more than this. Launched only months after the devastation of Black Saturday bushfires in 2009, Ferntree Ferntree Gully News, Gully News has reported local stories around the underlying copy of agenda of maintaining community in an ‘edge’ place, between the forested slopes of the Dandenong Ranges and Time to think can be dangerous. Victoria are a mine of information aboutthe increasingly urbanised fringes of the thecity of Melbourne. Follow the story of the newspaper as it gathers confidence over eight years, or dip in anywhere to enjoy the Scenes and Stories, 2009-17, a conversations of a generous and engaged community. One could discover uncomfortable truths. networks of emergency help in time of need, recently published collection of Over the last 50 years the pace of life has speeded up but about the sports, arts, history, U3A, Rotary andISBN 978-0-646-99159-7 stories and photographs sourced 9 780646 991597 > in such a long, slow acceleration that we scarcely noticed it. other organisations that keep us healthy, informed from the first 50 issues of this Then everything changed. and entertained. These papers, including ours, newspaper. A city of five million went into lockdown for months – will be eager to play a part in the changing times This beautifully crafted book offers a unique schools closed, sports cancelled, theatres shut down, travel that lie ahead. No doubt there will be a need for portrait of people, individual and groups, in a special place and time.The high standard prohibited. new volunteers, especially people who see the of the production also enhances the many So we stayed home. We bought puppies and jigsaw puzzles; big picture, to take on leadership roles. Think quality photographs that originally appeared on we joined Zoom, watched the birds, walked and cycled. The about how you can contribute. For a picture of newsprint. air quality improved. And we had time to think. community networking over the last ten years in The book makes an excellent gift to anyone new What really matters? Do we want to live at that hectic pace the Gully may we recommend our book: Ferntree to Ferntree Gully, to former residents or to friends again? Especially now we have discovered our own 5km local. Gully Scenes and Stories. and family overseas. There is no doubt this lockdown has been a time of fear Purchasing information Ferntreee Gully News – Scenes and Stories, 2009-17 and suffering for many but, as stories in this newspaper show, Join us on Facebook Priced at $15, copies can be purchased either we are becoming much more sensitive to each other’s needs, by cash, eftpos or credit card payment from: even to our daily presence to each other. We are responding Ferntree Gully News is now on Facebook! Mountain District Learning Centre Office, 13- with food, phone calls, emails and offers of money and help. Join us at ‘Friends of Ferntree Gully News’ to stay 15 The Avenue, FTG. And from Ferntree Gully In the last few weeks funding from public reserves is connected and informed between editions of the News Agency 2/69 Station Street, Ferntree Gully. beginning to trickle down. As happened in the midst of paper. We look forward to seeing you. WW2, experts are thinking ahead, asking what will we need Meg Hellyer for renewal: to keep businesses alive, local shopping centres flourishing, community groups meeting again? An early Walkers reminder during lockdown call in the Gully has been for an Arts led renewal (see page We acknowledge that Don’t forget to wear a mask when walking for we meet and work on the land of 3). Suddenly there is money to fund improvements. Can we exercise and delivering Gully News. Thank you for take this opportunity to seek for the best of ourselves and staying the course. the Wurundjeri People start on a path to a new thoughtful normal? Due to the closure of many community organisations of the Kulin Nation Thank you to all who contributed to this issue, sharing we have increased the number of papers at pick-up We pay respect to their Elders their experiences of coping with pandemic. Thanks also to points in shopping centres at: the advertisers who fund the paper and to volunteers who Upwey, Upper Ferntree Gully, the Village, and past, present & future fashion it and bring it to you. Mountain Gate. Anne Boyd A further thank you. Production team Ferntree Gully News Advertisements Editor: Anne Margot Boyd www.ferntreegullynews.com Ferntree Gully News relies on advertising revenue to Assistant editors: Beverley Mills, Beth Duffy and Email: [email protected] pay for printing. Prasadini Nanayakkara Office: 8 The Avenue, Ferntree Gully Promote your business and support the community by Writers: Teresa Cannon, Graham Crichton, Peter Stagg, Open: Tuesdays 10.00am to 3.00pm advertising in Ferntree Gully News Gemma Franks and others Prices begin at $65.00 inc. GST for an ad size 60mm Community News reporting: Lynn Brewster and Diana or by appointment deep x 80mm wide Roggenbucke Tel.: (03) 9758 3056 See website for sizes and prices Design and formatting: Dandystripes Design (Tuesdays or leave a message) Email Pam McConnell: [email protected] Image editor: Gary Fevreau Photography: Barbara Oehring, Gary Fevreau and others Ferntree Gully News is a volunteer-produced Copy and publication dates 2020 Printer: McPherson Media at Newsprinters community newspaper published by Mountain No. 64 Copy date 13 March Publication 3 April No. 65 Copy date 8 May Publication 29 May Advertising: Pam McConnell District Learning Centre Distribution: John McMillan 0468 364 331 No. 66 Copy date 10 July Publication 31 July Website: Meg Hellyer 13-15 The Avenue, Ferntree Gully, No. 67 Copy date 11 Sep Publication 2 Oct Office: Heidi Lighten, Mary Trinnie, Alice Collins, Gavin Victoria. 3156 No. 68 Copy date 30 Oct Publication 20 Nov Green, Judith O’Donnell Tel: (03) 9758 7859 ABN 20 093 868 002 If you would like to help: gathering or editing news, stories Ferntree Gully News was launched in 2009 by Mountain Disclaimer: The views expressed in Ferntree Gully News are and photos, with advertisements or delivering the paper, contact District Learning Centre in collaboration with Ferntree not necessarily those of the supporting organisations unless MDLC 9758 7859, or leave a message on 9758 3056 or John Gully Village Traders Inc. Published six times a year, the acknowledged as such. No endorsement of products and services McMillan 0468 364 331 (for walkers), or call in on Tuesdays, paper aims to build and strengthen community is implied by the listing of advertisers and sponsors. While every 10.00am to 3.00pm, at 8 The Avenue, Ferntree Gully. by reporting the stories of people and groups effort is taken to print contributions accurately, the publishers in Ferntree Gully. take no responsibility for errors. Ferntree Gully News October 2020 Village News 3 Partners for 2021 Village recovery Knox Council’s new Creative Industry Renewal grants have invited community partnerships in arts, music and food events to help rebuild momentum in the Village. A calendar of exciting events: weekend food trail specials, local musicians and artists on show, will climax in a Carnevale later in the year. All this of course assumes that gathering in public places is once again possible even if in a new way. The aim is to help rebuild community momentum and involvement once the current crisis passes. Ferntree New building beside the railway crossing in Ferntree Gully News website and print editions will keep you ‘Height fight victory’ Gully Village, photographed by Barbara Oehring. posted as plans proceed. Groups currently involved are Ferntree Gully Arts ‘Ferntree Gully has the most rigid However the new two-storey complex of shops and Society, Village Traders and the Carnevale team led by rules in Melbourne.’ apartments now rising on 44 Station Street is opening 1812 Theatre. Any community groups or individual to a very different scenario. Future plans will need to artists who would like to take part can email gullynews@ As the new two-storey building at 44 Station Street takes make the most of the many new trends in retail and gmail.com for contacts.
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