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A publication of Bay & Basin Community Financial Services Limited (ACN 105 756 063) A Committed Community Centric Company © AboutOur Bay..... & Basin DECEMBER 2020 Vol 17 Issue 11 Remember to SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESS Bendigo Community Bank GIVING TREE MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL Australian Native Pink Swamp Heath - photo by Dannie & Matt Connolly Sanctuary Point Districts TWO BENDIGO COMMUNITY BANK ATMs conveniently Community Bank Branch situated at KERRY ST SANCTUARY POINT and bendigocb_sanctuarypoint VINCENTIA MARKETPLACE. A Community Magazine proudly produced as a service to the community by www.aboutbayandbasin.org Sanctuary Point & Districts Community Bank Branch There’s always plenty on across our two great locations! For more info see our website. www.thecountryclub.com.au ONLY $10 $12 VISITORS DECEMBER 2020 © Vol 17 Issue 11 AboutOur Bay & Basin ..... Featuring in this issue ..... 3 Bendigo Community Bank Giving Tree Sanctuary Point branch collecting non perishables Australian Native Pink Swamp Heath - photo by Dannie & Matt Connolly 7 Stories of Jervis Bay 21 Community Noticeboard Jervis Bay Maritime Museum Exhibition 24 What's On 10 Home Cooking Orange Chicken 30 Monthly Feature 12 Mucking In Booderee Clifton Community Food Garden 33 Life - through my lens 14 Libraries farewell It's that time of year again! 35 On The Beat 17 You won't find these Vehicle Security stories online 1 Your Community Magazine A publication of Bay & Basin Community Financial Services Limited (ACN 105 756 063) A Committed Community Centric Company CONTACT DETAILS A Word from the Editor Contributions Please submit WELCOME TO OUR DECEMBER your contributions for the EDITION OF THE Jan/Feb 2021 issue by 25th Nov 2020 and the March 2021 Issue by 3rd Feb to MAGAZINE. The Co-ordinator This issue see the last of the Life [email protected] – Through My Lens photography PO Box 180 series contributed by Corinne. Sanctuary Point NSW 2540 What a wonderful series it has been Phone: 0478 607 829 imparting a wealth of photography Advertising Enquiries 0478 607 829 [email protected] knowledge onto our reader. Thank You Corinne for your contribution, it Distribution Enquiries 0478 607 829 [email protected] has been much appreciated. Watch out for a new series of articles from Printing magazine is proudly printed and Corinne starting in January. typeset locally by Sanctuary Point Printing, We have nearly made it to the end phone 4443 0014 of 2020, what a roller coaster ride of 10,000 copies carefully distributed by Pinpoint Advertising to homes and business in Wandandian, a year it was, lets hope 2021 is better. Bewong, Tomerong, Falls Creek, Basin View, St Georges Basin, Sanctuary Point, Old Erowal Bay, Erowal Bay, Huskisson, Vincentia and Woollamia. We are also Take the time over the holiday supported by many local businesses. period to reconnect with family and accepts no responsibility for any article, advertisment, notice or letter published. Any article, advertisement, notice or letter is published at the risk of the contributor, who accepts friends that may have been isolated liability for any intended publication. All contributors forwarding articles, advertisements, notices or letters agree to indemnify the this year and in some need of a bit publisher and warrant that the material is accurate, not deceptive or misleading, in breach of copyright, defamatory or in breach of any of TLC. other laws or regulations. reserves the right to edit contributions and there is no guarantee all material submitted can be published. All views expressed in this publication are those of the Have a great Christmas New year contributors and are not necessarily those of period, stay safe and enjoy. This month’s must reads: • Shoalhaven Family History - Page 17 • Booderee - Page 30 • Life – Through my Lens – Page 33. Regards and happy reading, Editor 2 Your Community Bank BENDIGO COMMUNITY BANK GIVING TREE For the past few years now your local Bendigo Bank branch at Sanctuary Point has collected non-perishable food to be distributed to those less fortunate in our community. We accept donations of non perishable food items (canned foods, packaged foods etc) on behalf of local charities to be distributed in our local community. All foods collected will be donated prior to Christmas Day so they can be distributed to help brighten their Christmas Day. It doesn’t take much effort to help someone else, so why not help us help them by bringing in a few things for donation, any non perishable food item will help. Drop your food items into us at 1/200 Kerry St, Sanctuary Point 3 Community Forums Basin Villages Forum basinvillagesforum.asn.au PO Box 37, St Georges Basin 2540 October was Basin Villages Forum AGM and all Kean) re inaction on acquisition of Heritage committee positions filled. Estate lands as well as other land close by Shoalhaven Council's Tourism Project Manager supposedly to be taken into National Park Michelle Green spoke at the meeting about the system but after two years no results. Local grant funding received for reserves within the groups supported this submission as it is Shoalhaven and the works associated. seen to further enhance the local National Park with habitat corridors, increased flora The reserves were: Plantation Point Vincentia; viability, breathing space for communities Ray Brooks Reserve/Palm Beach Sanctuary in the Bay and Basin area. Point; The Basin Walk Sanctuary Point; Bherwerre Wetland Sanctuary Point; Hyams • The issue of free-roaming cats and their Beach; Ulladulla Heathland Reserve; predation on birds and wildlife addressed at Murramarang Coastal Walk. Some funded September meeting has seen some action, works have commenced, others are long-term contact with councils and working on the projects. best way forward to address the issue. All information on Shoalhaven Council's • BMX track no responses from local website – Get Involved. community, believed by some that possibly Malcolm Moore bike track still operable. • Strategic Plan for the Bay & Basin area No Forum comment at this stage. addressed – Strategic Plan has been formulated. Project Control Group working With November meeting being the last meeting to get information out to communities of 2020, hopefully Covid restrictions will allow & requesting feedback. Groups targeted a pre Xmas break up (supper) with homemade include Parents & Citizens (P & C), cake supplied. See basinvillagesforum.asn.au sporting groups, community businesses, for information or call 0424 100 051. Facebook, Council website and the . Surveys will be handed out at local supermarkets during November. Comments requested. • Erowal Bay DA for units and shop – Council waiting further response from developer. • Basin Village Green Operational status still seen as issue due to proposed development for adjacent land requiring extra car spaces. Objections to Council re any use of this reserve for car park and still push for land to be zoned as Community land as expected with this small but lovely parcel of land. • Heritage Estate group (HEST) submission sent to Minister for Environment (Matt 4 5 6 Events The new exhibition was designed by Queanbeyan based design company Thylacine Design, with input from the JERVIS BAY Museum’s staff, volunteers and the Bay and Basin community. Funds for the construction of the new MARITIME exhibition, and alterations to the gallery to house it, came from a NSW government MUSEUM CREATE NSW, Regional Cultural Grant Fund, awarded to the Museum last year. NEW EXHIBITION TELLS THE The exhibition features a bark canoe (or STORIES OF JERVIS BAY ‘garidja’ as it is known in the local Dhurga language) which was made on museum A new exhibition at the Jervis Bay Maritime grounds for the exhibition by members of the Museum in Huskisson, recounts the stories of Jerringa people, with the assistance of a grant the people, events and places in the history of from Bendigo bank. Jervis Bay and surrounding areas. The exhibition also features a possum skin The new exhibition, which is open now, tells cloak, objects from the numerous shipwrecks the stories of early settlers, the development on the treacherous South Coast over the of the region’s industries such as whaling years, and photographs of the families, and fishing, boatbuilding, woodcutting and holiday makers, colourful local identities, and farming, and the role of the navy in the area, buildings, that are now long gone. through to the development of area as a The new exhibition is open now. Admission tourist and holiday destination, and the story (which also includes entry to the rest of the of environmental activism in the region. museum’s galleries) is $10 ($8 concession) It recounts the history of the indigenous with children under 16 free. people in the area, their struggles to survive Museum hours are 10.30am to 3.30pm each European settlement, their struggles for day, including weekends. The museum is land rights, and the pride they take in their located at Woollamia Rd, Huskisson. contemporary communities. For more information, call 4441 5675 – The new exhibition is called ‘Munggura- www.jervisbaymaritimemuseum.com.au Nggul’, which means ‘home-belong’ in the local Dhurga language. The new exhibition replaces an old history- based exhibition previously housed in the same galley but which, according to Museum’s Director, Diana Lorentz, needed a complete refresh of its displays and to incorporate new ways of telling stories. “The exhibition features some fascinating objects, including one of the few complete Seibe Gorman diving suits fully assembled as well as some significant objects from the local Aboriginal community” says Ms Lorentz. 7 8 THUMBS UP TO SUPPORTING LOCAL BUSINESS Recently I had a small operation on the The annual Prosperity in the Park Family Fun bridge of my nose which made it very Day provides local residents with an opportunity difficult to wear my glasses, therefore to connect with each other and local services making it quite awkward to read, watch such as Shoalhaven City Council, Red Cross, television, catch up on emails and all of Shoal coast Community Legal Centre, Service those myriad tasks which require help with NSW, TAFE and Shoalhaven Neighbourhood vision.