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THE WINDELLAMA NEWS Windellama Progress Association Hall lnc. Vol. 20 no. 7 – August 2016 Editorial & Layout: Lyn Jones & Gayle Stanton Sec/Treas: Christine Woodcock www.windellama.com.au Published Monthly Hard Copy Distribution 400 - Website : 6,000 average/month Windellama, Oallen, Nerriga, Bungonia, Mayfield, Quialigo, Lake Bathurst, Bungendore & Tarago Cake Sale & CAKE AUCTION 13th August 2016 Windellama Hall Starts at : 10:00 am CAKE AUCTION: 12:30 Fund raising for CanAssist BURNING OFF? - Fire season finished 31 March- regulations still apply. Windellama News– August 2016 www.windellama.com.au Page 1 Coming Events… Annual Subscriptions - please send your details and $30 (cheques payable to ‘Windellama News’) to cover August the annual cost of postage. 1 Progress Meting 2.00pm All cheques please post to: The Secretary, PO Box 705, Goulburn. 2580 8 Nerriga Progress & Sporting Ass AGM * Unpaid subscriptions will be cancelled after one month 13 Can Assist Cake Auction If you have any short articles, anecdotes, or something 27 Brigade Training and Meeting else interesting about yourself, your family, or the community; please write it down and drop it in our 27 Historical Society BBQ letterbox at the Hall. We will edit it and publish it in the September Windellama News. A LOCKED POSTAL BOX IS AT THE FRONT OF THE 24 Brigade Training and Meeting HALL, 3444 OALLEN FORD RD, IN THE STONE October WALL FOR THE COLLECTION OF ITEMS FOR PUBLICATION 11 Council Outreach Meeting Items left in the box after the deadline will not be November collected or included in the News Articles, adverts, etc may also be sent by email to: 5 Field Day [email protected] Adverts sent by email will not be inserted unless payment is received by the deadline. Our Policy on Receipts Inside this Issue….. The Windellama News makes out a receipt for all advertising payments made to the paper. We don’t post out receipts to save cost and we assume that the Community Noticeboard 3 appearance of the advertisement in the paper could normally be taken as proof of payment. If you require a School News 5 posted receipt please include a stamped self-addressed envelope with your payment. Windellama Progress 9/11 Windellama Fire Brigade 13 It would be greatly appreciated if anyone sending money to the Windellama News would include their SES and First Aid 15 name and address and a note saying what it was for and put it in a sealed envelope. This would avoid a lot of Historical—Tom Bryant 17 confusion and uncertainty . In Your Garden 21 Willowglen Gardeners 23 Notice to advertisers, article submitters & readers WIRES 25 The Windellama News is published and authorised by the Windellama Historical Society 29 Progress Association Inc. Whilst every care has been taken in the production of the News & publishing to the web page on the community Nerriga News 31 website, the editor takes no responsibility for any inaccuracies, errors or Church Information 32 omissions. All such contributors by forwarding advertising, notices, & articles, agree to indemnify the publisher & warrant that the material is Classified Ads 33/34 accurate & neither deceptive nor misleading, in breach of copyright, defamatory or in breach of any other laws & regulations. Community Information 35 The responsibility for advertisements complying with the Trade August Calendar 36 Practices Act lies with the person, company or agency submitting such for publication. Original material appearing in this newsletter is copyright. It may be reproduced in part or in whole for the benefit of the community, provided that the source of the material is fully acknowledged. If you have any queries about using material from the Windellama News, please contact the editor. DEADLINE FOR ALL ISSUES IS THE 20TH OF THE PRECEEDING MONTH YOUR WINDELLAMA NEWS IS PRINTED BY BUSINESS REQUISITES, GOULBURN Page 2 www.windellama.com.au Windellama News - August 2016 Community Notice Board Break Enter and Steal at Bungonia WANTED— Work with Windellama News During the 29—30 of June thieves travelled Team as an EDITOR. Knowledge of Microsoft down Lookdown Road, Bungonia through to Publisher an advantage, but not essential. the National Park and broke into the shed Work from home and make your own hours. there. Volunteer position. Call Lyn Jones (4844 5843) or Christine Woodcock (4844 7275) or Gayle A considerable amount of property, was stolen Stanton (4844 5156) including - but not limited to, generators, chains saws etc. Craft @ Windellama Hall These people have travelled through our We meet from the second Tuesday of the community and NO DOUBT already sussed out month 1—4 pm. other properties on their way to the National For more information please call Irene Turner Park. They wouldn't have randomly turned up on 48445 214. there and done the B & E, they would have been there recently to sus out the area. Can you tell us about a situation where local Please keep an eye out for anything unusual knowledge and expertise helped you out? and inform the police if anything looks wrong. Let us know and we will publish it in our next newsletter. On Tuesday 28th June three levels of Government were present at the “switching on” of the Mobile Tower at the corner of Oallen Ford Road and Windellama Road. Windellama News– August 2016 www.windellama.com.au Page 3 P R O N I C A G R I A mobile service for all your rural living mechanical repairs Service & repair of : - Tractors Self propelled machinery Sprayers Quad bikes Air conditioning Ride on mowers And all general farm machinery Contact Mathew Nicholls Tel : 02 4844 5857 Mob 0417 998 938 e-mail : [email protected] abn 28 228 073 983 a/c licence no: L058811 Buying or selling house or land? JOHNSON & SENDALL Incorporating Mullens & Stephen J Lamond SOLICITORS – CONVEYANCERS For advice on all your legal requirements Morris Owen ~ Alison Howarth ~ Tim McGrath ~ Carl Henwood p: 02 4821 1588 f: 02 4821 9850 e: [email protected] www.johnsonandsendall.com.au 13 Montague Street Goulburn 2580 General Plumbing Athletics Coach Maintenance and roofing Drainage Personal Trainer Gas-LPG Renovation work Marina Wenban TMV & Backflow prevention ABN 56756688933 Ph: 0439 029 313 Licence 2009704 Jason Tolar Accredited Athletics Australia, Mobile 0418227480 AT&FCA, Fitness Australia [email protected] Page 4 www.windellama.com.au Windellama News - August 2016 Email: [email protected] Phone: 4844 5130Website: www.windellama-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Fax: 4844 5265 TREC CANBERRA EXCURSION We are all so excited to have community At the end of last term students attended an members Grahame Woodcock and Sharon Alessi excursion to Canberra with fellow students come into our school to work with students, as from TREC. The K-2 students went along to the our Club Friday concept comes to fruition. Each National Zoo and Aquarium and students in Friday students will be participating in sewing and Years 3-6 attended Parliament House. Both woodwork lessons. Grahame will build a billy cart these excursions were the culmination of the with students for a Billy Cart Challenge which will work students learnt during the term. be held at Wakefield Park in November. We are looking to other community members, with a passion to share, to come in next term to also work with students. We will keep you up to date on this terms activities. END OF TERM AUCTION At the end of each term we have an auction which all students participate in. Throughout the term students earn Windellama dollars to spend at the auction. They can purchase a variety of items. A favourite of everyone’s is homemade Charlotte and chocolate brownies and for the first time we had a meerkat sausage sandwiches which were enjoyed by checking those students who tried them. each other out at the National Zoo and Toby was a happy student when he put in a successful bid for a toy he had his eye on! Students sharing their knowledge. Windellama News– August 2016 www.windellama.com.au Page 5 WINDELLAMA GARDEN CLUB CAN ASSIST CAKE AUCTION DATE: 13th August 2016 LOCATION: Windellama Hall OPEN: 10:00 am CAKE AUCTION: 12:30 There will also be games for the children, chocolate wheel, hot food, a stall and anything left over at the end of the day will also be auctioned off. For further information contact: Ros Woods 4844 5128 or Di Andrews 4844 5127 Page 6 www.windellama.com.au Windellama News - August 2016 In Loving Memory of Peter John Rodney Croker 17th January 1942 – 25th June 2016 Peter was the youngest son of Selby & Cecelia Croker (nee Hockey). They raised a family of four children at Leumeah, Windellama. Joan, Valmai & Ray were his siblings. He attended Windellama Public School. He was well known in the district, taking an interest in the fire brigade and farming of sheep, angora goats & deer, he also had a keen interest in the Windellama Historical Society. Peter had a lot of Friends at Windellama. He also had a love of gardening. He worked in town as a wards man at Kenmore & St John of God Hospitals. Peter is the last of his generation. He stayed in the area until his sixties, moving to town to live. He took his pet deer Ruby with him. Peter worked in town, caring for his mother until her death. He also cared for his friend Harold Willis. Peter loved to rock & roll, and followed in his sisters footsteps by collecting Elvis memorabilia. Peter had a light hearted sense of humour and a care free way on life. He was a kind and generous person. REST IN PEACE OUR UNCLE PETER & Friend Windellama News– August 2016 www.windellama.com.au Page 7 Page 8 www.windellama.com.au Windellama News - August 2016 Windellama Progress Association Some of the functions at the Windellama Hall in the past few months 60th Wedding Anniversary celebration at Pot Luck Lunch Nissan Club Dinner Windellama News– August 2016 www.windellama.com.au Page 9 Page 10 www.windellama.com.au Windellama News - August 2016 Windellama Progress Association REPORT FROM WINDELLAMA PROGRESS ASSOC.