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60 page Anniversary Edition of Heartland The Great Eastern Fly In Rusty, Helen Trustum, Motoring & much, much more Twelth OurOur first first year year Edition nownow to taketo take on on2018 2018 Our first year On November the 10th we celebrated our first year since we started Heartland Magazine. It was something that both Sharon and I had wanted to do for many years but hadn't the chance to start before. So, after a long conversation driving from Mudgee to Casino the magazine developed, that was the month before but November 10th was the actual date that phone calls started and the layout was developed. That first issue was a nervous wait for it to arrive from the printer on January 12th 2017. We started distribution and the calls from well wishes told us we had something special. The rest as they say is history, we could never have imagined how successful Heartland Magazine would be. During the year, Heartland Magazine has grown in size, now more than double the size of the original Issue 1. We have an online eMag flip book which receives over 6,000 views per day. Our Facebook likes are over 14,000 people from all over the world. We have opened our first office and employ local people. We have won awards and we are invited to sponsor events and attend events throughout the northern rivers. We have people from all walks of life come in to our office and rave about the magazine, tell us their stories and give us photos. Heartland Magazine is now used in Schools, in nursing homes, museums are collecting them for future generations, people are collecting issues, sending them to loved ones overseas and nationally. Our advertisers are loving the response as people are using the magazine as a directory for businesses in the magazine. We have already started on the first issue for 2018 and it comes out January 14th, 2018. It's been a massive year for us and some how we've made it through. We've met some amazing people and are looking forward to another year of much the same. Thank you everyone and have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy time with your loved ones. Sharon & Jeff www.heartlandmedia.com.au Ph: 02 6662 6222 // The NSW Northern Rivers Heartland Magazine 3 Memory Lane Inside this month 6 Back in Time with Rusty 8-11 Local Stories 12 Kids Corner 15 Matt Bird - Chainsaw Carving 16 Helen Trustum - F.E. Nicholls 20 Do you remember? 22 Aussie Motoring - XU-1 Torana 26 The Bill Driscoll Story 28 History of the Homestead - P2 32 The History of Christmas Trees 36-38 The Great Eastern Fly In Need exposure? 52 Let's Cook Advertise with Heartland 58 Save the date 02 6662 6222 Heartland Media www.heartlandmagazine.com.au Ph: 02 6662 6222 Ph: 1300 679 787 81 Walker Street Casino NSW 2470 www.heartlandmedia.com.au Jeff Gibbs Come on and JOIN US at Online, Print, Sales & Marketing facebook.com/heartlandmediansw/ Kyogle 02 6632 3332 [email protected] Sharon Bateman Director of Sales & Marketing 0427 633 354 [email protected] Mart Blair Sales 02 6662 6222 [email protected] Heartland Magazine is © copyright no part of it can be reproduced without written permission from the Publisher. All stories are subject to approval before they go to print. Design & Layout by Heartland Media 4 The NSW Northern Rivers Heartland Magazine // Call 1300 679 787 www.heartlandmedia.com.au www.heartlandmedia.com.au Ph: 02 6662 6222 // The NSW Northern Rivers Heartland Magazine 5 river heights then you can ring the SES, and if they are busy ring Bonalbo police, Nimbin police or The Channon Pub and check with them to see if creeks are still rising. [Editor: Or check www.bom.gov.au/australia/warnings ] If Thank you Rusty. the creeks are still rising and there is still heavy rain in the area you should think pretty quickly about what your We here at Heartland would like to give a special preferred course of action will be and then put your plan Thank you to "Rusty" for telling his story and being into play. part of Heartland Magazine since day 1. 2. If things are really bad, you’ll need to take your car to Thank you mate, we love your stories and you high ground and get a lift into town to continue packing up have a following throughout the region of Northern NSW. We also have reports from Canada, Are you Prepared for the Next Big Flood? your business/home. Calling a taxi is usually an option too. Germany, England, Ireland, USA and all over Australia that people want us to set up a Fan Club I was a resident of Lismore for the two biggest floods ever for you. recorded in Lismore. In fact, I did flood rescue even before 3. When the river reaches 26 inches you only have about the SES was ever thought of. In those days, the flood boats 6 hours (at most) to pack up before the river crosses the road at the Old Post Office. This assumes the river is Merry Christmas and we look forward to your were all made of timber clinker shapes and all we had stories in 2018 was a Johnson 15HP motor to try and go against the fast rising at one foot an hour. During the 1974 flood the river flowing water - dangerous at the best of times. rose 18 inches an hour – much more than a foot an hour, closer to a foot and a half (that’s 45.7 cm per hour). If it’s The Heartland Team However, we managed to save people by the hundreds moving more quickly you will obviously have less time. and I can’t remember anyone ever drowning in these major events. Both of these floods; 1954 and 1974 were very 4. Make sure you have a battery powered radio and different. One of them seemed to come from Tuncester torch, as well as a first aid kit and fresh drinking water. way and the water was very fast moving. But those days Continue checking that your way out is still available. Before the weather warning came from Brisbane and not Sydney. leaving, turn off the power to your meter box. There The boats we used had to be sunk to allow the timber to Never walk through flood water. It can be deceptively have been plenty deep, faster and stronger than it looks and is also full of swell and it took ages for that process to take place. These of ideas floating around for years on boats were brought out of the rowing club as they were fast moving submerged objects and germs. Don’t let kids pl ways to stop the flooding. Ideas such as cutting a canal ay in flood waters, they are likely to get injured by stored on the ground floor alongside the racing boats. The through the big bend at Gundaremba so the water would Eights (boats with 8 rowers) and Fours, plus skulls and the submerged objects and the germs are rife. A simple get a straight run and not back upon the land and flood skin scrape could let all sort of nasty things into their old Gladstone skiffs were all moved to the third floor out of Lismore. A lot of people in shops around the block are harms way while the floods was happening. immune systems, like staff. Note: If you have a lot of heavy blaming the SES. The SES have admitted that they got furniture, why not arrange a removal truck early on? You it all wrong; but the people need to take a little bit of the can hire all sorts these days. All the flood work was done by members of the blame and put it on themselves too. Three days before rowing club which back then was called The Lismore Water that rain depression hit our area weather forecasts were Brigade and Rowing Club. It would seem many shops in the giving out major flood warnings for the entire Northern Years ago, Palings music shop had Grace Brothers town block were totally unprepared for what was going to Rivers area, which includes Lismore. These days not happen next. I know it’s an event that could happen again automatically booked to come and get their heavy enough people watch the news and weather on TV, they pianos and organs and boxes of record out in case of flood and I think that could be early next year, especially in don’t seem to know what’s going on around them. January and February of 2018. I hope this won’t be the warnings. case but those two months are always on the cards as Even our own kids wouldn’t know what’s on the news as being big potential flood times. Every minute counts when flooding happens and if you’re they never watch any news or weather on tv. Cyclone walking from town to get away from your soon-to-be Debbie turned on a rain depression well and truly before flooded shop, try to avoid walking through water in Another thing is the levee, which too many people were we felt any part of it – it was clear the rain was coming. under the impression that this wall would keep the shops Dawson St, as the water current is typically very strong in the main block safe; well that’s the first mistake people along there when the river breaks it banks.