Woolgoolga and the Northern Beaches MARCH 2020 issue #7

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A couple of weeks ago I Brad and I thought, had call from Holly at NSW instead of just writing a TurtleWatch asking if we could help quick story, why don’t we spread awareness of some Sea Turtle dedicate a few pages of hatchings that will be occurring on the this edition of Woopi News Coffs Coast over the next month or so. to the Sea Turtles. The Holly told me of the Citizen Scientist ideas kept evolving and program they have, which calls on (next minute) we decided volunteers to help monitor turtle to extend this awareness nestings. It got me thinking about campaign into a fundraiser. how important people like Holly and First thing we did was organisations like NSW TurtleWatch contact Jimmy Wags, Tulli are. NSW TurtleWatch is a division of Stevens and Lisa Knox, all Australian Seabird Watch. amazing locals, extremely So, I spoke with Brad, we remembered talented artists and Holly West from NSW TurtleWatch about to receive a the joy we experienced when watching beautiful generous human Tipsy Turtle from Emily Berry at Sam’s Place the release of a healthy sea turtle, beings. All three have aptly named Woopi. The Fluro Friday created extraordinary turtle juice with sweet and sour. $10 with $5 Tribe had found him 18 months artworks for us to auction. going towards our fundraiser. Keep an previously, sick and barely breathing. We will run a silent auction eye on our website and facebook page We marveled over the value of places during March. You just need to for more details of our Turtle Crawl like the Dolphin Marine Conservation email or text your bids scheduled for Sunday March 29, an Park (DMCP) and how, without places to Woopi News via the afternoon of Turtle inspired cocktails like these, sick turtles like contact details above. and smoothies in Woolgoolga Town ‘Woopi’ would never have Centre. survived. Duan All three are donating the March, who is proceeds to NSW TurtleWatch a Woolgoolga (via Australian Sea Bird local, a veterinarian Rescue) and to Dolphin Marine and the Operations Rescue. We also have a Go Fund Me Manager at DMCP, page set up so you can donate as little always tries to release the turtles or as large as you like. www.gofundme. at the same place they were found. com/f/woopi-sea-turtle-fundraiser We have attended numerous turtle Many shops around town are offering releases since and never stop feeling to donate some of the proceeds of overwhelmed at the experience. (You their sales during March to the fund. I can read about the next scheduled can’t wait to try a Tipsy Turtle at Sam’s Turtle Release on page 4.) Place. Bacardi Rum, Midori, pineapple

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Auction 2/ This beautiful Turtle art duo by Lisa Knox Pen and pencil single swimmer (300x250mm) Auction 1/ This original, one of a kind, acrylic on canvas (400x500mm) by Jimmy plus 3D Babies (390x280mm) Wags is up for auction to raise money for local turtle research and rehabilitation. 2 – WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 Welcome to Woopi News

World’s Greatest Shave I know there has been a lot of fundraisers lately due to the fires and the floods but another one worthy of a mention and close to a lot of us is the Leukaemia Foundation’s Worlds Greatest Shave. Last year we were all shocked to hear that Scott from Woopi and Sapphire Beach Physio was raced to Sydney with Burkitt’s Lymphoma. He is still recovering and waiting for another Bone Marrow Transplant this month. He has teamed up with Celebrating Seven years of Fluro Fridays Mikayla Ross to host a Most of you know of or have heard of Fluro Friday Woopi, World’s Greatest Shave but did you know it is celebrated at over 100 beaches in over event at her Beachouse 28 countries all over the world? Café. Mikayla sadly lost her Dad to Blood Cancer last This month on Friday March 20 at 6.30am year and is looking forward to making this a fun day. They the One Wave organisation, that are the initiators of Fluro are after volunteers to shave, wax or colour their hair on Friday, will turn seven. That’s seven years of Freeing the Saturday March 21 (which at the moment looks like the Funk, of bringing awareness to mental health and letting same day Scott will be having his transplant.) To donate or people around the world know they don’t have to face register you need to go to mental health challenges alone. To celebrate they are http://my.leukaemiafoundation.org.au/scottmitchell forming a Worldwide Fluro Wave for Mental Health. The Please give what you can and help beat blood cancer. Woolgoolga tribe would like to invite you to join us in being If you’re attending an event, ordering a meal or purchasing part of this wave along the shoreline of Woolgoolga Beach. a service or product that has been advertised with us, don’t Or like last year, if you would like to form one at your beach forget to tell them you saw it in Woopi News, so they know we would be stoked to have you join us. Contact me (Lisa) it’s worth it! for more details 0410 052 601. Lisa and Brad. This will be Woopi’s third year of joining in on this worldwide event. You just need to turn up at main beach in ♻ Please recycle your edition, your brightest clothes and form a line similar to if you’re not saving it, pass it the photo above. If you would like to see photos and a on to someone else or take it video of our previous years please check our website gallery back to the shop you picked it page. woopinews.com.au/photo-galleries up from. Share the love. Vale BOB COOPER - Known and loved by many from his surfing days on the Northern Beaches. Founder of Coopers Surf. RIP BOB

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Woopi News went to visit Dr Duan March, Operations Manager at Dolphin Marine Rescue to learn more about their Turtle Rehabilitation Program. This is what he told us. Dolphin Marine Rescue currently sees around 60 sea turtles wash ashore Freddy Byrne got up close and personal with along the NSW coast every year. Pebbles the turtle rescued recently on Pebbly These animals are generally Green Sea Beach, Station Creek Turtles that are around ten years of age and between 40 and 50cm long. To understand what is affecting these pretty much provide them with TLC agricultural run-off and nitrogen animals, it is important to understand and let them do their own thing. I like accumulation in sea grass in our area their lifecycle and how they use their to avoid antibiotics; they knock the gut to see if there is a link. The main hold environment. flora around and can make the turtle up on this at the moment is funding Green Sea Turtles will nest in sicker. I don’t like the idea of releasing - we need the best part of $10,000 to Queensland and Northern NSW, animals that may be shedding have the samples analysed, so at the as demonstrated by the nest on antibiotic resistant bacteria into the moment the samples are in the freezer Woolgoolga back beach this year! The marine environment. Most animals are until we can find the money. If anyone eggs generally take a couple of months in care for around three months but it out there is keen to help fund this - let before they hatch, and in this time the can be in excess of a year. If anyone me know! (That’s us Woopi!) sex of the turtle is determined - cool wants to help us out by donating or In addition to our sea turtle temperatures (like we get down here) adopting a turtle, they can go to the rehabilitation, there are a number of mean boys and warm temperatures website www.dolphinmarinerescue.org. other ways that you can get involved (like they get in North Queensland) Whilst it is always great to release with Dolphin Marine Rescue. For mean girls. the animals once the rehabilitation kids under 15, we have the EcoGrom process is complete, sometimes program. Activities vary, but in the past the animals don’t make it. We work the EcoGroms have built some nest closely with the Sea Turtle Foundation. boxes for wildlife after fires, helped Last year we held a symposium that out at sea turtle releases and worked regain your brought together all of the rescue and with Coffs Harbour Aboriginal Lands rehabilitation groups from around the Council on waterway health in Coffs country. It was a great turn out and Creek. For people that are over 15 and it let us determine and prioritise the keen to get involved, we run Marine freedom! rehabilitation and research questions Fauna Training days, where you will for sea turtles in Australia. So, every learn a little about the biology and Once they emerge, the hatchlings time that a turtle dies we make sure we first aid for sea turtles, seals, whales head out to sea, utilizing a ‘swim complete a post mortem examination and dolphins. This has really helped frenzy’ to get through the nearshore and collect a range of samples. We us out in terms of capacity building in environment and out into the pelagic analyse gut contents for Taronga the community - now we have over currents. Once they are out there they Zoo to see if there is any evidence of 50 volunteers to help out with turtle tend to drift around in beds of debris plastic ingestion - which, thankfully, rescues and whale strandings. The next and nibble on things from the surface around here is rare. We collect muscle training day is coming up on the 7th of (fish eggs, sargassum and planktonic for Southern Cross University to look March and registration details can be organisms). After ten years or so they at molecular traces of micro-plastics found at www.dolphinmarinerescue.org return to the nearshore environment that may have been ingested and We still have 17 sea turtles in care at and start feeding on sea grasses and expelled and we have a couple of the moment, but most of them are on macroalgaes and that is when we research projects of our own that we the mend. We have a couple that are test ride an electric bike today see them get sick and come into the are pursuing. The primary one at the good to go - weather depending, we’re rehabilitation centre. So the question moment is looking at the nitrogen looking at March 8th, 10am, at middle Warning: side effects include feelings of euphoria is, is their diet making them sick? Or is levels of the sea grass that is in the Mullawarra for a release. So if you are something else in the ocean affecting stomach. Most animals that die will in the area, come on down and check and uncontrollable grinning them? The answer is that we do not be really skinny, however they often it out! know. We monitor blood parameters have a stomach full of food and very and parasite load and make sure any inflamed intestines. Nitrogen toxicity Thanks for sharing this with hydration deficiencies are corrected can cause similar problems in cattle, us Duan - see you on the 8th Call: 6654 1217 whilst they are in care and then we so we are looking at the link between 5/5 Market St, Woolgoolga 4 – WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 woodseyswheels.com.au TurtleWatch

Would you like to be part nest in low numbers along the NSW of the really cool NSW coastline and have been showing a potential increase in recent years. TurtleWatch Citizen Science Northern NSW beaches, including Program? Woolgoolga and the Northern Beaches, The NSW Governments Saving our are becoming increasingly recognised Species program has teamed up with as a critical habitat for two threatened Australian Seabird Rescue to develop marine turtle species; Green (Chelonia NSW TurtleWatch, a citizen science mydas) and0 Loggerhead Turtles program involving volunteers to collect (Caretta caretta), listed as vulnerable valuable data on marine turtles nesting and endangered, respectively, at both in NSW and their potential threats. state and national levels. To become a volunteer with the Citizen There is also growing concern about Science program the only requirements the impact of climate change and are ... a willingness to walk the beach in global warming on marine turtles as the morning, a minimal level of fitness, the latest trends are showing high rates a keen eye and the desire to learn and of feminisation of some populations. their website seabirdrescue.org.au/ contribute to conservation. NSW can provide beaches with seaturtles/monitoring or to express potentially low light pollution, minimal your interest in becoming a Citizen The sort of things you would be Scientist please contact TurtleWatch required to do, apart from walking the human impacts and cooler incubation Project Officer, Holly West on 6686 beach each morning are: identify sea temperatures. 2852 or [email protected] turtle tracks on the beach, report your So I guess we need to give them all the findings, record presence of potential help we can. What a way to give back to Photo by Bryce Forrest our environment and ensure the future threats to sea turtles when possible Media and assist with monitoring nests when of the world’s Marine Turtles is secure. found. That doesn’t sound too hard to me! To learn more about becoming part of Marine turtles have been reported to the TurtleWatch program check out regain your freedom!

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probably for a couple of weeks. This had amazing grant to help her achieve this. such an effect on Louise that years later But as usual I have run out of room to she has designed her Pacific Collective share more about what Louise is doing logo on this turtle. but I hope we have encouraged you to Louise told me that plastics are now look further via Louise’s website www. spreading bacteria around coral reefs, theplasticcollective and I hope it has it has a really bad knock on effect, 6% made you think a little more about the percent of it floats and 94% goes to the unnecessary plastic waste that life in bottom the ocean, the plastic as it floats the 2020’s manages to produce. around harbours bacteria, then if it (PS How cute is that photo?) touches coral reef or any habitat it kills it. Pretty scary. Louise was always thinking about how We have to save the turtles mum! to try and stop this plastic epidemic Little legs in a blur, from ruining our oceans and killing our Chasing plastic bags before marine life. She was in Thailand and blown on the beach. visiting a family who had a very young We have to save the turtles dad! girl looking after them while mum was Tiny fingers scooping sand LOUISE HARDMAN at work. The girl picked up the big bag Carrying jellyfish back to the sea So we all now Louise Hardman for her of household rubbish and took it down That’s what they need to eat. passion for recycling plastic ... but did to the river and threw it in! You can We have to save the turtles sis! you know her inspiration came from the imagine Louise’s horror! On questioning Look, that one is upside down. sea turtle in the first place? this, the young girl said she thought it We’ll gently set it right again... Her first job out of uni was for the didn’t matter as it would just float away. Leave it to go on its way. Marine Education Society coordinating That’s when Louise decided she needed We have to save the turtles bro! Don’t drive on to the beach. a sea turtle tagging program. She then to become an educator. She came back See the sign helped set up a Marine Turtle Education to Australia and studied to become an It’s hatching time! program with the help of Surge. They environmental education teacher. Let’s take a walk instead. started finding and receiving more Louise is not only an incredibly We have to save the turtles aunt! and more sick turtles. In this photo intelligent woman she is also persistent Look! That one is crook. you can see, a little bit younger, (circa and appears to never ever give up. For Its shell is covered with bad stuff kinda early 90s) Louise with a turtle years now she has had this passion I hope we found it in time. that found his way to her, but did not to do something about combatting We have to save the turtles unc! survive. He was from the pristine waters the over use of plastics and to do I know what they mean to you. of Wooli River, after he died they did something with the plastic waste that A family sign an autopsy (Louise called it something appear inevitable. Of spirit time, fancy but I can’t remember the word) She designed a machine that would We’ll all work together, tru. and the poor thing was chocka block shred plastic, melt it and then extrude full of plastics from his butt (she also it into something usable. The Shruder. Poem By Dominique White used another fancy word here) to his Who remembers as a girl sitting on the She has been banging on doors and rocks below the headland watching the throat. That was Louise’s “Oh my god banging her head for quite some time turtles swim. Her daughter Ava has always moment” He had been eating seagrass now, most people would have given run after plastic bags and carried jellyfish and other things to try and unblock up, but her belief and her passion kept back to the sea. himself, but he had just been filling up, her going and she has just won an

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Emerald and Dominique are two amazing young Mullaway ladies. These two, aged 7 and 5, have been raising money for Dolphin Marine Rescue at their birthday parties each year since 2015. In lieu of gifts, the girls invite party guests to instead donate to DMR. From ten parties, they have raised around $1500, with Dominique raising $220.20 at her 5th birthday party last month. The girls also do what they can at home to protect the sea by using organic, toxic chemical-free soap, shampoo and sun cream; and by choosing to avoid plastic toys and single-use plastics.

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What can you do to fishing methods like (and oceans!) to increase Protect Sea Turtle trawling, longlines, and drift their chances of survival. gillnets, becoming unwanted Habitat? Hang onto those catch (also known as balloons! Helium balloons Don’t buy souvenirs or “bycatch”) that is discarded can travel long distances, other items made from sea like trash. get caught in electric lines, turtle shell. When travelling, Just say NO to plastics! and hurt animals like birds ask vendors what souvenirs Sea turtles and other ocean and sea turtles, are made of and when in life mistake plastic as food which similarly to doubt, don’t purchase items and ingest it. An estimated plastic bags can be in question. that more than 100 million mistaken for jellyfish. Reduce your carbon marine animals die each Choose footprint! Climate change year as a result of eating or sunscreen carefully. affects the health of coral getting entangled in plastic. Chemicals in some Avoid using disposable Glass Straws and Keep Cups reefs which are vital to the types of sunscreen at Feather and Nest sea turtles survival. A plastic bags, bottles, and can damage coral warming planet also skews “skip the straw.” reefs and pollute turtle sex ratios in baby turtles, Leave No Trace. This habitat. Avoid any changes the abundance and means practicing good sunscreen with distribution of prey, housekeeping when visiting “oxybenzone” and increases erosion of nesting a beach where turtles nest. look for brands beaches, and more. Learn Remove your trash (and labeled as “Reef some simple ways to reduce trash left by others) and any Friendly” and avoid your carbon footprint here. obstacles that may become sprays that Choose responsibly hazards for nesting sea can pollute caught seafood. Sea turtles turtles and hatchlings like the sand are vulnerable to commercial beach furniture, holes, and where turtles sandcastles. Turtles need nest. clean and clear beaches String Bags and environmentally friendly re-usable activated charcoal bags available at Lalu Lalu

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8 – WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 Purple Day in support of Epilepsy Awareness

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Since moving to Woolgoolga she has embraced our community and contributed an amazing amount. They say volunteers live longer lives and Jean is testament to this. A sprightly octogenarian, she is out there towing and setting up the Lions BBQ at all different places so she can cook pancakes and sausages to raise money for kids with cancer, drought appeals or anything that is needed. Jean recently helped initiate an Adopt a Town program via the Lions Club, to help drought affected towns. She saw the need for a laundromat in Guyra and collaborated with the Guyra Lions to help fund this, there was one family that had to commute a long way to reach the laundromat and this was causing them a lot of distress, so Jean organised a tank of water to be delivered to this family. She has been to Barraba and Bendameer as well, helping them in similar ways including making it a nicer Christmas for them. Jean disclosed that when she leaves these towns she has to pull over for a tick to control her emotions. Jean and the Woolgoolga Lions Club have supplied Nymboida and Nana Glen residents with 22 x 5000 litre water tanks and they have assisted Blaze Aid by providing steel posts and wire. These areas also had bottled water on their wish list which didn’t quite make the budget. Jean went around different supermarkets successfully spruiking for donations but with no delivery. Jean decided she would drive JEAN VICKERY the pallets of water herself out to Nymboida. She left them Last month we touched briefly on what there with a note saying ‘Love from Woopi’. an amazing woman Jean Vickery is, when Jean wants to stress that although she she was awarded the Coffs Coast Citizen appears to be doing everything every of the Year, but Woopi News was lucky where she is not a one man band that enough to have a longer chat with Jean she has been lucky enough to team up and we would love to share it with you. with so many other Woopi residents and Believe it or not Jean has only been in the Woopi area since collectively they are making a difference. around 2012 but wow, what an impact she has made. Jean is wearing glasses in this photo as she has an eye She is a born and bred Guyra woman spending her life patch on, and most likely will have for most of this year, working hard and on the land. After her husband passed but we can’t see that stopping her at all. Whilst she was away she kept the farm going for quite a while until one day in hospital having her eye seen to, she discovered they she made the decision to move down to the coast to be near desperately needed a new Lifepak defibrillator in the her family. She is a mother of three and grandmother of six. emergency department. In true Jean style she got on the I imagine her to be a great fun, open minded, all accepting phone and managed to negotiate the purchase and donation grandmother too. of a new one that is now on order. As a newbie to town Jean wanted to get to know people, she Jean’s future plans include a reader helper program in became involved in all sorts of community activities. She primary schools, we’ll keep you up to date when this joined the Red Cross and helped out with the Friendship happens. She also asked me to thank the Woolgoolga Afternoons, she volunteered for Linked to Life, Westpac Pharmacy and the people of Woopi for their wonderful Rescue Helicopter and Meals on Wheels, she would also go donations to help the drought affected towns. up to the Retirement Village and chat with residents there. What a Woopi Wonder She joined the Woolgoolga Lions in 2015 and says it’s the best thing she has ever done. She loves being a Lion. So much so, she is currently President and ready to stand again If you would like to become involved for another year. Via Lions she helps coordinate the annual with the Woolgoolga Lions Club Daffodil Day and promotes and supports the Disabled please give Jean a call 0427 791 628 Surfers Association. 12 – WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 Our Pet Page

POOCH PERFECT PET OF THE MONTH Did you see Lisa Webb on Woopi News introduced the telly on Thursday night? our new Pet of the Month Lisa was amazingly selected column via a facebook from over 4000 applicants to competition during be part of the new channel 7 February. show, Pooch Perfect, hosted The prize was that the by Rebel Wilson! The show pet who received the features Australia’s Top Pet most votes would have Stylists taking pampered their photo published in Pooches from scruffy to this edition. The photos were so cute we decided fluffy. Lisa and her husband Deegan from Emerald Beach was our Lisa on the right with her show to publish the top three. Stephen own Maggie’s Pooch Perfect partner Annett grand winner with the most votes Dog Café in Moonee Beach If you would pup can enjoy a, Doggie like to see the Shopping Centre, which Beer, a Puppicino or even other entrants by the way, recently was a Pie whilst you sit back go to Woopi awarded the best dog and relax enjoy a cup of News face friendly café in Australia. coffee and something to book site. Lisa unfortunately was eat yourself. Your pup is A new knocked out during even welcome to sit on the competition Thursday’s episode but what sofas with you while you will also start a great effort she put in. watch pampered dogs being for our April Coming in Second Maggie’s Dog Café is a groomed through a large was handsome little edition. Enter Chai Yo pretty unique concept, you glass wall. It’s definitely as many times worth a visit. can take your dog into the as you like, then get Third place goes to Clancee Café with you where your Congratulations Lisa your friends voting. and her Chicken ‘Chook’

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The 2020 Science and Engineering Challenge are Seeking enthusiastic Volunteers for an exciting one day event in Woopi. For the sixth year Woolgoolga High School will be hosting this exciting challenge with the help of our Woolgoolga Rotary and Oh to be a kid again! Lions Clubs plus the University of Newcastle. Woolgoolga Family Playgroup have the right idea. They The Challenge will be held on Tuesday 7th April 2020 and have been getting into some Turtle Education with the is designed, through fun and practical hands-on activities, children incorporating Turtle Craft into their fun packed days. to inspire young people about the opportunities available Playgroups are awesome for mums, carers, bubs and toddlers. in science, technology and engineering. The Challenge has You’re not only taking your children somewhere safe, friendly been a huge success with over 240 students from across the and fun, you get to form some lifelong friendships and have Coffs Coast participating. Students in previous years have that all important social inclusion every week. Playgroup is shown great enthusiasm and determination to win for their open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 till 11:30am. The cost school. Teachers from the schools involved have indicated is only $3 per family and you can register with playgroup NSW that the Challenge has had a significant, positive and lasting at playgroup.nsw.org.au. Situated at the Community Hall (aka effect on the students’ approach to science and technology Mud Brick) in Boundary Street, the play area is fully fenced off in the classroom. Woolgoolga High School won the event in with a large range of toys for all babies and children. There are 2019! Volunteers are required to have a current Working with shade sails as well as a patio, but still encourage all children Children number (www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply- to wear a hat. Healthy eating is encouraged, so everyone is working-children-check) and will need to complete a form and asked to bring a piece of fruit to add to a nice big healthy fruit present ID to Woolgoolga High School whilst volunteering on salad for morning tea. You can also bring along other food for school grounds. For more Information please contact Patty your child if you wish. So go on … get out of the house and Delaney 6654 2185, email: [email protected] or take the kids for a nice morning of fun and craft. Gordon Letts 6656 1746, [email protected] Mind your Mind

Do you need to shoot the second arrow? It represents your emotional and behavioral response to the bad event. Instead of perpetuating our suffering by It is said that anytime we suffer misfortune, two arrows fly complaining, blaming or ruminating - shooting the second our way. The first arrow is the actual challenging event, arrow - we can choose a different response. which causes distress and/or pain. The second arrow is the suffering, which is actually optional! The second arrow So how do you avoid shooting that represents our reaction to the difficult event. second arrow? I was recently reminded of this Buddhist teaching by a I will give you some tips next month colleague of mine (thanks Clare!) and find it so helpful. so stay tuned! For now, try and notice your response to difficult situations - Have you had a disappointing or hurtful thing happen in awareness is the first step! your life recently? Perhaps you felt angry, sad, frustrated and you raged, complained, whinged and spent time ruminating Author: Local, Anna Miley, Exercise about how you wish things were different? Physiologist, Certified Yoga Teacher Disclaimer: Mindfulness techniques are useful The initial arrow, the bad event, you have little control in supporting wellbeing. Nothing in this article over, life happens. The second arrow is yours to control. should be considered medical advice. 14 – WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 The Woopi that Was! – Emerald Beach

The past editions of our tells of the Skinner’s picnic at ‘Woopi That Was’ pages Shelley Beach (or Serenity as many call it now) attended by an have featured Woolgoolga English gentleman who had been from the 50’s onwards, this frolicking with the Skinner girls. month we would like to The gentleman was invited for a share with you some of the horseback ride to the Skinner’s history of Emerald Beach. homestead which involved riding between two of the Skinner men We were lucky enough to spend some and when crossing the wetland time with Ben Holder the author of ‘The the Skinner’s dug their heels in and History of the Coastal Strip known as their horses took off at a gallop. Look at Me Now’. Ben is an incredibly The gentleman followed and was interesting man with an amazing plastered with mud from the horse’s knowledge of Emerald Beach and hooves. On returning to the picnic he surrounds. He has given Woopi News said to the girls “Look at me now”! permission to glean bits from his book. The countryside surrounding Emerald Beach Village of approximately 1300 Another interesting fact in Ben’s book acres was settled and pioneered by is that before the famous Outfall James and Eliza Skinner, their sons, Protests of the late 80s and early 90s, daughters and their families from the Look at me Now had already been early 1880s. compromised by plans to build a tourist development. This included a Between Fiddaman Creek and Shelley camp ground, caravan park, two tennis Beach, land comprising 140 acres and courts, a small golf course, a restaurant Her childhood, on the windswept what is known now as Emerald Beach and motel units which council had rocky shores of Shelly Beach in the Village was settled in the middle 1880s approved. Residents formed the early 1930s was as wild and free as the by George and Sarah Dammerel and Emerald Beach Action Group and ocean waves that pounded that remote family. protested furiously. Luckily for us the part of the New South Wales shoreline. This property in the early days was state government blocked the plans and For as far back as Kaye can remember, referred to as ‘Look At Me Now’. It bought the land as part of its coastal her mother, Sarah Batty hovered on the wasn’t until later that it became known and protection scheme. This was in the periphery of her life. It was her father, as ‘Signal Hill’ and then became mid to late 70s. Austin who Kaye looked to for love and Emerald Beach subdivision in 1963. support. Although work took him away It is not known when or how ‘Look at from home for much of the time, when me Now’ got such a name. The name Woopi News was contacted he was present he gave his children was given on Frederick Fiddaman’s by a lovely journalist, both his time and attention and death inquest report which was held at Janette Jenyns of Chinchilla provided for them as best he could. ‘Look at Me Now’ in June, 1882. Several in Queensland. Janette was There were four children in Sarah Jane versions of how the name came into given the opportunity to being have been told. The favoured one and Thomas Austin Batty’s family, being it was named after an English write about a young family Neville, Kaymas, Edna and Dulcie. gentleman who was known to use the who grew up in a shack on One of Kaye’s earliest memories is of phrase quite frequently, particularly at Shelly Beach (Now Serenity). being only three or four years old. She times of distress or trouble. Another She was able to chat with vaguely remembers struggling uphill story is that when you are on one Kaye Batty, before she died with armloads of clothing, blankets of the beaches and looking back at and has captured Kaye’s and pillows. The family was moving the headland, you can see a facial from the log cabin at Fiddaman, her formation in the cliff face. When you reminiscences of a life home since she was born, to another walk up the beach or down, the face is back in the early 1930s. I dwelling on the far side of the hill. still looking at you. hope you enjoy it as much The well that provided fresh water Fiddaman was English, a hermit miner as we have. for the family had run dry, but on the and fossicker. He was camping near other side of the headland was a fresh his gold diggings on Digger headland, Shelly Beach running creek; a reliable water supply. some think he was responsible for The first miracle was that she survived Her father had been building the producing the name, however the story her birth, the second that she survived new home on and off for the past six of the gentleman who used the phrase her childhood. Kaymas Auriel Batty months while he worked on nearby frequently is the most persistent one, was born in 1932. At a mere three Hardacres’ dairy farm. The family lived having been passed down through pounds; she spent the first weeks of at the farm during this period. Kaye the Skinner descendants. The story life literally wrapped in cotton wool. remembers only the little things, her WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 – 15 The Woopi that Was! – Emerald Beach father behind a massive cart horse protected at one end by Dammerel bedrooms and a lean-to made of bark called Dolly, ploughing a field in Headland and at the other by Look at nailed to a wooden frame protecting readiness for corn, and taking him his Me Now Headland (so named because the cooking area. It was sheltered from lunch in a billy can, a red hat atop her no matter where you were on the the elements on just one side, with a little head. She remembers breakfasts beach you could see it). At the end dirt floor but it became the heart of the of bread on an enamel plate smothered of Look at Me Now was a small rock home. with brown sugar and cream. island, bridged to the headland by a Austin Kaye remembers little of her first home fallen tree. On the horizon between the Her father would make huge log fires at Fiddaman. All her memories are two headlands lay Solitary Island. in the fireplace of that little lean to and centred around life at Shelly Beach on So close to the beach was this house the memory of those fires is embedded the far side of Dammerel Headland, that during wild weather the sea foam in Kaye’s memory forever. A hole at located eight miles from Coffs Harbour. would lie in billowing piles at their either side of the fire place allowed The tin shack Austin built for his door. It was a rudimentary building, massive logs to be fed through into the family was half way along the beach the main dwelling consisted of the hearth. In front of the fireplace was a long bench, and this is where Kaye and her brother and two sisters ate their meals. It was always Dad who cooked for the children, where Mum was for much of the time remains a mystery. There was little money for food and fish was the staple diet, supplemented with milk, butter and eggs from Skinner’s farm. The Skinners were Dad’s family, related on his mother’s side and there were three Skinner families living within walking distance of Shelly Beach. Kaye’s Dad, Austin as he was known, worked all week with a pick and shovel, making roads. At Coffs Harbour a new runway was being built and it was this job that kept Austin away from his family for much of the time. It was hard manual labour, loosening the surface, cutting away culverts and then carting away the surface soil in a horse drawn dray. Gravel was brought in to provide a solid surface – rolled and compressed by hand. It was a long and painstaking procedure. Kaye’s only memory of her father ever taking time for recreation was seeing him dressed in whites, riding on his bike to Coffs Harbour for a game of cricket. When he was home, Austin fished to provide food for his family, and to use as barter with his cousins. It was from the Skinner farm that the dairy products came, in exchange for the fish Austin caught. There was fruit too, apples and pears when they were in season, sometimes bartered, and sometimes pinched from the trees by the children. Some mornings before he left for work, he would make them big plum puddings, boiled in a pot over the fire,

16 – WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 The Woopi that Was! – Emerald Beach or loaves of bread baked in the coals. marshy wet land. There were obstacles for bait, made chewing gum from tree At times the family dined sumptuously along the way; an area of sinking sand sap, and ate the honey sweet flowers on whole flathead, stuffed and baked could be crossed by holding tightly to of the ‘pig face’ vine. Sometimes, when in the red-hot embers of the fire. The the ‘Cuddle-Me Post’ before ducking their cousins met them on the beach children learned to catch prawns at under the barbed wire fence. Old wells their pockets would be full of potatoes night using a kerosene lantern, and dotted the landscape, uncovered and a from the farm. Kaye loved those prised fresh oysters from the rocks. death trap for the unwary. potatoes cooked in the coals of their The fishing off Shelly Beach and It was a ragged shore line, with cliffs beachside fire. “I don’t want to go to the headlands was abundant; Kaye and rock pools, towering sand dunes heaven,” Kaye once said, “I want to go remembers how easy it was in those and blowholes. When the gales blew to Hell, so I can cook potatoes on the days to catch a fish in the surf. Bream, in from the ocean the seas would hot coals, there.” flathead and whiting were caught on crash relentlessly against the shore, Kaye always looked after the two little periwinkles or sandworms. Dad fished shattering onto the rocky coastline ones during the day while her father for Snapper and Mulloway off the rocks and sending spray high into the air. was at work. Edna and Dulcie were at the headland. He had to drag the But for Neville and Kaye and their two mere babies, and Kaye had them huge Mulloway up the beach over his young sisters, this beach was their propped up on the sand in a shady shoulder, their tails dragging along in playground. Along with their army of spot while she and Neville played the sand. cousins, the children were left to their nearby. She made their bottles and fed The 1930s was a period of depression, own resources for the most part, to them, dressed them each morning and and money was tight; it was a time for swim, fish and explore their beach to put them to bed at night. resourceful measures and making do their heart’s content. They wiled away with what one had. Kaye recalls taking hours playing with shells; they were a chaff bag into the open scrublands their ‘coins’ in games of shop. There behind the house and filling it with dry, were beautiful shells to be found along sweet grasses. With a blanket thrown Shelly Beach. over, it made a soft mattress to sleep How often and in how many ways on. the children escaped serious harm is Austin sometimes collected honey and debatable. They lived a charmed life, Kaye remembers there was always unaware of the dangers around them. a sugar bag hanging near the fire. A Despite living on a beach, Kaye was bowl collected the dripping honey as not a strong swimmer. Asked how she it slowly melted off the wax combs felt about that time of her life Kaye and Kaye would dip her finger in it replied without hesitation, “It was an Kaye Batty - possibly 1950 whenever she passed by. Her Dad idyllic childhood.” would bottle the honey, and sell or She once tipped the youngest, Dulcie Their life quite simply was an barter it around the neighbourhood. out of her pram, resulting in a bump adventure, straight from the pages of a to the forehead. Worried, young Kaye Dad was the centre of Kaye’s universe. fairy tale. covered Dulcie’s head with a bonnet, When he fished at night, by the light Had a stranger passed by and looked pulled down low over her eyes to hide of a lantern, Kaye would wander the the offending bruise. For the most beach, eventually falling asleep in the down on that beach, what sight would part though, Kaye spent much of her pool of light cast by his kerosene lamp. have greeted him? A ragamuffin crowd of sea urchins, swarming, screaming childhood caring for her young sisters. There Dad would find her, covered in across the blowing sands, emerging But there was plenty of fun to be had a thick layer of sand for warmth, and from the waves, hair wild from the on a beach. Neville, Kaye and their surrounding her sleeping form would wind, bare skin tanned dark as many cousins were inventive and often be the tracks of the dingos that mahogany, and having the time of their adventurous, so there was never a had circled her as she slept. lives! dull moment when the weather was Life on a Beach “When we were hungry, we would fine. One particular incident could The hut that Kaye shared with her catch a fish and cook it over a fire have spelled the end for young Neville. parents and siblings was built on sand on the beach.” Kaye recalls. She also It all started with the plan to build dunes just a stone’s throw from the learnt to make Puftaloons, little fried a ‘swimming pool’ at the base of a ocean. Around the dwelling was open scones made with flour, salt and water. towering sand cliff. When the tide and grassy and to one side, a fresh “Wherever we went, we would carry a came in, it would fill their pool and water creek flowed from a deep spring- little tommyhawk with us. We used it to they would have a safe place to swim. fed waterhole further up the hill. The chop oysters from the rocks, and to cut The children spent hours digging in waterhole was surrounded by thicket, off the tentacles of octopus when they the sand until finally the whole cliff and dense undergrowth. wrapped around our ankles in the rock collapsed, trapping Neville and burying him under feet of sand. Dad’s cousins’ dairy farm was inland pools.” from Dammerel Headland, and The children learned bush tucker skills Frantically Kaye and her cousins dug between the two lay an area of low, from the older ones; they dug shellfish him out. By the time they had pulled WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 – 17 The Woopi that Was! – Emerald Beach him free his face had turned blue. They punishment for the pair. pipes while they cooked their dinner of dragged Neville down to the surf and The beach was the setting for yet fish on the beach. splashed cold water over him until he more shenanigans when the children Dad’s job on the road was taking him coughed and spluttered and regained decided to bring the horse and cart further from home with every week, consciousness. He seemed to recover onto the sand for a bit of fun. All was so much so that now it was too far to from the incident with remarkable well until Neville became over-excited come home each night. They were to speed, and not a word of this was and yelled loudly and cracked the live in an empty farmhouse on Nash’s spoken to Mum or Dad. Next time, the whip at the poor horse. He took off in Farm near Arrawarra in return for pair would not escape punishment for fright, the traces broke and off went help with the milking when Austin their reckless deeds. the horse, leaving the cart handles was home on weekends. Once again Austin and his friends, or cronies as he buried deep into the sand. The worried though, the children were left to fend called them, used to amuse themselves children were relieved that it was a for themselves. telling long yarns and drinking mugs of Friday, and when Dad arrived home black tea, as they puffed on their pipes that night he was able to dig the cart late into the night. The children loved out of the sand before the tide washed these times, Kaye snuggled between in and covered it completely. her Dad’s legs as he crouched beside a camp fire, listened enraptured to Hard Times the men’s tales. They were stories As much as Neville and Kaye enjoyed of ghosts and legends that kept the their freedom, there were times when children up long after their bedtime. living so self-sufficiently left them One crony told of a tribe of monkeys feeling lost and neglected. When the living on nearby Solitary Island. Kaye weather turned nasty, fishing became and Neville were intrigued and totally impossible and often the children went hoodwinked by this tale, so the next to bed hungry. day they decided to row over and Although still just a youngster, Kaye see the monkeys for themselves. A learnt not to rely on Mum to look after tin bathtub seemed the ideal choice her. She washed her own clothes, of vessel. The pair dragged it across standing under the clothes line while the beach and hauled it to the end of the ocean breeze caused her four little Look at Me Now Headland. Without a dresses to flutter and bounce. She second thought they launched it into remembers vividly creasing with her Kaye outside the orphanage she was the waves and began paddling. fingers the little folds in her skirts, so eventually sent to. “How we managed to drag that tub they looked pressed and tidy when she over the rocks, I’ll never know! We wore them. Kaye’s Northern Beaches wanted to see those monkeys so Kaye, Neville and their cousins were story ends here, for the badly,” laughed Kaye. left pretty much to their own devices. moment, as they moved to Once out in the deep water the waves When they decided it might be fun to Grafton, then due to her began breaking over the rim of the smoke a pipe like Dad and his cronies, Dad’s ill health moved to little tin tub. Furiously, Kaye bailed no one told them children were while Neville paddled but the island not allowed to smoke. They carved Sydney where the children was looking further away than ever. themselves pipe bowls from corn cobs. were fostered out. It’s Luckily for the pair, a fisherman on the A hollow reed provided the stem of the interesting to read about headland saw their plight and came to pipe, and Kaye used the dried silk from life back in those days, corn cobs for tobacco, while the boys their rescue. He paddled their bottoms not actually that long ago. for good measure, although the fear of preferred the more pungent smoke of being out in the ocean in a leaking tub horse hair! Now the children could sit How quickly the times have should have been more than enough around their camp fire and smoke their changed.

So WOW we ran out of room. There’s so much more history we would like to share with you. From Ben Holder’s book and from our own research. We would like to share more information on Frederick Fiddaman and the Dammerel families, also the graves on Dammerel Headland, Dammerel Street, the Caravan Park and at Serenity Beach. The gold mining days, prawn fishing in Fiddamans Creek. The Aborigines and the Axe factory. The ship wrecks, the sand mines, the outfall protests and so much more. If you’re keen to hear more please drop us a line. [email protected] 18 – WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 Woopi News

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Sun 1: Paint pARTy 2pm Sun 8: Sun Yin Yoga Sunday Fri 27: Epilepsy Awareness – Moonee Beach Tavern Refresh Sesh – 4pm Studio Join Fluro Friday for a Purple Move Morning at 6.30am then Sun 1: I Feel Good Plant from 7.30am you purchase Based Talk and Cooking Fri 13: Fluro Friday, Mental Epilepsy Awareness Class with Chef, Adam Health Awareness, merchandise from Barb Guthrie $22 - 6pm Ground Woolgoolga Main Beach Kimpton who will be set up 6.30am Earth Fri 20: Help form the World’s Beachouse Café for most of Largest Wave - Celebrating the day Sun 1: Sun Yin Yoga Sunday Fri 13:Jacob Murray Music, 7 years of Fluro Friday, Refresh Sesh - 4pm Studio 6pm Sam’s Place Mental Health Awareness, Move Woolgoolga Main Beach Fri 13: Marshall and the Fro – 6.30am 7pm Seaview Tavern Fri 20: Australian Freedivers Sat 14: Woolgoolga Beach Classic Markets – brought to you by Tue 3: Woolgoolga and Marine Rescue Fri 20: Build a Bear Fri 27: Helen Townsend & Northern Beaches Chamber Workshop, 5.30pm Moonee Shannon Smith LIVE from of Commerce AGM – Beach Tavern WA - 7.30pm Amble Inn Visitors Information Centre, Corindi Boundary St 5.30pm Sat 21: Australian Freedivers Classic Fri 27: Jiggy Wiggy Fridays. Fri 6: Fluro Friday, Mental Live Music 6pm Sam’s Place Health Awareness, Woolgoolga Main Beach Sat 28: Bollywood Markets 6.30am Sat 28: It’s My Comedy Club with Anthony Salame Sat 14: Plant Propagation and Bart Freebairn 7.30 Workshop – Woopi Gardens Woolgoolga C.ex Free entry 9am Sun 29: Northern District Rebels Junior Presentation Sat 14: Woolgoolga Textile Sat 21: Shave for a Cure – 10am Woolgoolga Beach Arts - Beeswax Wrap Shave, wax or colour your Reserve Workshop. Get rid of plastic hair – Fundraiser for Blood Fri 6: Woopi DID: Dancing wrap forever. Start your Cancer – Beachouse Café Sun 29: Harmony Festival - in the Dark – an initiative plastic free journey here. 2.30pm to help combat loneliness. Different methods explained. Coffs Botanical Gardens Come along to the All materials supplied. Sat 21: Music with Peter Woolgoolga Community Make three size wraps. $45. Barry, 6pm Sam’s Place Hall, aka Mud Brick hall, in Bookings essential. Limited Boundary Street for an hour numbers. Ph 0408 109 108 to of dancing like no one is secure a place. Woolgoolga watching. Currently planned Hall next to Woolworths. for first Friday of every 2pm-4pm Sun 29: Turtle Crawl. A month. This month has an fundraising afternoon to 80s theme. Free entry. 6pm- Sat 14: Dave James – Free raise money for Sea Turtle 7pm Show 5.30pm Woolgoolga C.ex care and research. Cocktails, milkshakes, meals, live Fri 6: Music with Mighty music. Market Street and Ocean 6 pm Sam’s Place Sun 15: Boomerang Bags Turn 3. All past and present Sun 22: Australia Freedivers surrounds, Woolgoolga from 12 noon Sat 7: Rotary Auction members are invited to share Classic – Auction. Divers will (behind CWA Hall) lunch 12.30pm at Anchor weigh in their fish from 2pm Kitchen and Bar. at the Woolgoolga Beach To be included in next Sat 7: Bollywood Markets Reserve and the public is months What’s on Guide Tue 17: St Patrick’s Day - Irish invited to come along, watch please email your event to Sat 7: Like a Rhinestone specials for Lunch & Dinner, and take part in the fish [email protected] Cowboy - starring Darren lunchtime raffle & wheel auction hosted by Marine before March 15. Cohan 8pm Woolgoolga C.ex spin. Diggers RSL Rescue Woolgoolga. 20 – WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 What’s on

HARMONY FESTIVAL sizzling samba soul session. Get down and dirty at Planet Coffs - our fully Bigger, bolder and tastier Follow your nose to the sustainable creative nature than ever and full of Woopi Flavourhood Food Walk play adventure zone. Build Talent. with the sizzling woks and your utopia in the bustling Celebrating everyone’s bubbling pots of the most delectable multicultural food cardboard cubby kingdom journey to calling Coffs home, and hay bale heaven. Join experience Coffs Coast’s experience on offer anywhere on the Coffs Coast. the treasure hunt throughout most culturally exotic, action- the festival grounds - collect packed, and soul nourishing Experience the warmest of enough blue materials so we just may lure out the giant bowerbird! drummers and a cast of Join Corindi’s Alison Williams, hundreds, join the procession curator of Wadjar Indigenous through the festival grounds Gallery at Yarrawarra to to a gigantic cross cultural help create a giant 30 dance off and explosive holi metre mural. Using recycled powder rainbow colour run materials and found objects the interactive mural is an finale! Uncover your common opportunity for festival goers ground on Sunday 29 March to add themselves to the 9:30am to 2:30pm at Coffs picture. Botanic Gardens. Gold The non-stop action coin entry and everyone is culminates at 2pm with welcome! the drumming in of the Visit our facebook event page or www.coffsharbour.nsw. family-friendly fiesta as the welcomes in the Melting community parade. Led by gov.au/harmony for more lush and leafy surroundings Pot, our authentic interactive traditional Gumbaynggirr dancers, 50 plus samba of Coffs Botanic Gardens cultural immersion space. updates. erupt in a kaleidoscope of colour, delectable aromas and hands-on fun. Soak up the main stage coffs harbour excitement with a non-stop program of over 20 acts featuring incredible dance HARMONY and live world music from 2020 around the globe and just exotic Coffs Botanic Gardens down the road including cultural Sunday 29 March food.. headliners Yt Dingo. 9:30am - 2:30pm Deepen your connection in Gumbaynggirr Nguura Aboriginal welcoming space - the living heart of the festival. ..and cultural Taste authentic bush tucker, market bazaar over 20 drum, acts! get painted in ochre, sit with dance & Share in a traditional cooking non-stop live weavers by the sacred fire. work- music & dance Get active in the Beats and Ethiopian Eritrean Coffee shops Feets drum and dance tent Ceremony with local with Popular Sandy Beach Woolgoolga residents from musicians Chaitanya Morly- Ethiopian background Alem massive Southall and Chris-James and Aulfina Daressa Bulto. parade finale & colour run huge kids Melchizedek opening at Middle Eastern bread and creative fun ’ ‘Planet Coffs zone 10am – join live Indian kirtan, hommous making demos, eco-adventure supercharge your smile with henna and African hair zone some Bollywood dance, grab braiding and uncover a community initiative by an instrument and let musical treasure in the market bazaar Coffs Harbour City Council uncover your ` gold coin entry ` ` ` ! ` all welcome ` mayhem reign with Uncle with stunning craft, jewellery common ground ! Martin’s Jam, then grow the and more, lovingly made by for more info visit: www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/harmony groove with a Kaya Boom local cultural artisans. WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 – 21 Photographer of the month

Darren Bromell since. I also owned a camera store one image from each day to Facebook I spent most of my teenage years in for a time and was in the industry for documenting the ever-changing the surf and most mornings of my several years. Now I have one camera landscape. I have nearly six years of adult life walking the beach with my and one lens and both are entry level images from my daily walks. With dog. A passion for photography was SLR. I concentrate on subject matter my trusty best friend Brown Dog you passed down from my grandfather rather than technical perfection. can find me on the leash free beach who gave me a camera when I was Sandy Beach is my playground and I somewhere near witches or flat top young and I have taken photos ever photograph it each morning and share with my camera. Stop and say hi.

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CATHERINE PSAILA I asked her, if she is loving it Catherine is the owner of here? “Yes, we are enjoying Audrey G’s Coffee Shoppe it, it has been great to move located in the old drapery to where there is so much store, once owned and run freedom and safety for by Joan Prior. This building Audrey. We love it.” So you has stood the test of time have fitted into the lifestyle? and its the location for my “Yes we have, the locals have next Humans of the Northern welcomed us with open arms, Beaches story. it’s been great.” I started by asking Catherine, Catherine and her family or Cath as I call her, how were living right next door to long she had been in Hanging Rock in the Macedon Ranges. Woolgoolga?“Two years”, and ©freedomfotoart where did you move from? “My It led me to ask her how did till 4 and now I have let my partner and I moved here from they discover Woolgoolga? benefit them more, or that life secret out hopefully you will Woodend, in the wine region “Al’s parents live in Port would be more suitable for save me a seat on one of the north of Melbourne, two years Macquarie, our flights were raising a family. Woolgoolga couches, lol. I had to ask Cath ago. We have a daughter, direct into Coffs Harbour, it has an effect on all its my most famous question: Is it Audrey who is 6, she is who was always cheaper to fly inhabitants and all that visit, Woolgoolga or Woopi?“To me we named the Café after.” than to drive. Then some of the effect it’s had on Catherine and her family I think is similar it’s Woopi, it’s casual laid back Oh yes, I was just about to ask Al’s friends moved to Sapphire throughout our population. Woopi” you how you got the name, “so Beach, we started looking Audrey G’s stands for Audrey around and visited them Peace, Love, Acceptance and Catherine Psaila is a Human of the Northern Beaches and I Grace” aha now I know. every time we came up here, a ‘we could do this’ feeling. can’t wait to speak to more. I think Audrey G’s has the one day we came across Audrey G’s Coffee Shoppe most comfortable seating Woolgoolga and we quite liked is open on most days 8:30 - Garreth Nicholls arrangements out of all the it. This place was for sale and Cafés in Woolgoolga, that we thought, let’s just have a being the large old couches go.” You’ve been happy with you see through the front your decision? “Yes, we are.” windows of her shop. They What a decision to make, I get are a perfect complement to the feeling that to make such one of her hand made treats a decision must take a certain and coffee. Have you not been type of courage but it must there and tried them? Oops also be a calculated one, in the now I’ve let my secret out, I sense that when people arrive love them and I’m regularly in Woolgoolga it has a calming laid back and enjoying them effect on them, it makes them as if I was at home. feel peaceful and safe and Cath is a beautiful and straight makes them question where forward human who loves a they are living and give them chat. a sense that this place would

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This is a copy of a poem on the notice board at the Seniors Centre. Woopi News thought it was quite funny and wanted to share it with you. Hope you get a chuckle.

A Little Poem for Seniors, so true it hurts! Another year has passed And we’re all a little older. Last summer felt much hotter And winter seems much Long time President Ron Whelan holding the NSW Seniors Local Achievement Award which was presented to Woolgoolga Seniors Centre last month by local MP Gurmesh Singh colder. There was a time not long and the WINNERS are ... “The centre has about 300 members and everyone involved strives to make ago During last months Seniors Week the it the welcoming place for which it’s When life was quite a blast. Woolgoolga Seniors Centre were pretty renowned. Now I fully understand busy with lots of activities on every day. “I know they’re particularly proud of It’s a great centre with daily and weekly About ‘Living in the past’ the many activities they provide, from activities to keep every one busy and exercise classes and information days to We used to go to weddings, active and also for that all important social outings and computer sessions. Football games and social inclusion. “The centre purchased a small bus a lunches… During Seniors Week they had a visit few years ago, adding the extra option Now we go to funeral homes from our local MP, Gurmesh Singh to of picking up and returning home And after funeral brunches. congratulate them on winning the Coffs for seniors who don’t have their own Harbour Electorate 2020 NSW Seniors transport. We used to go out dining, Local Achievement Award. “I congratulate the entire team, led by And couldn’t get our fill. During his congratulations message the hardworking committee, for making Now we ask for doggie bags, Gurmesh said, the Woolgoolga Seniors’ Centre the Come home and take a pill. “Woolgoolga Seniors’ Centre was wonderful facility it is today.” built some 15 years ago in a whole-of- Congratulations to Ron, Sue, Colleen, We used to often travel community effort by many passionate Suzi and the hardworking team that To places near and far. individuals and business owners,” keep the centre flourishing. Now we get sore asses From riding in the car. We used to go to night clubs And drink a little booze. Now we stay home at night And watch the evening news. That, my friend is how life is, And now my tale is told. So, enjoy each day and live it up … Before you’re too damned old!

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What is a grant of probate or letters of located, a grant of letters of administration may be needed. administration and when is it required? The relevant legislation determines who the beneficiaries of the estate will be, and an interested party can apply to We get this question a lot in act as the administrator of the estate. The grant of letters of estate matters. If a person administration once issued by the Supreme Court essentially passes away and leaves a has the same effect as a grant of probate. will appointing an executor Why are these types of grants needed? For the protection to deal with their affairs, of the asset holders and creditors but also to protect the many assume that is all executor and the rightful beneficiaries of the estate. Once that is required to deal with estate funds have been paid to an executor and distributed to the estate. However, an beneficiaries, the funds can be difficult to recover if another executor may find it is not will is subsequently located naming different beneficiaries or that simple. Many banks, if there is an outstanding debt not paid prior to distribution. share registries and nursing In some cases, executors have been found personally liable homes will require a grant for distributing the estate funds incorrectly. The application of probate or letters of administration before releasing the process provides notification to other parties that a grant is deceased’s funds to an executor of an estate. A grant will being applied for so that it reduces the risk to executors of also be required by NSW Land Registry Services to transfer these sorts of problems occurring. real estate from a deceased owner to their executor or If you are an executor named in a will and you are unsure beneficiaries unless there is a surviving a joint tenant. of what is required to administer the estate, or if you need What is a grant of probate? A grant of probate is a legal assistance in applying for a grant of probate or letters of document issued by the Supreme Court authorising the administration, Gallagher Solicitors & Conveyancers would executor to deal with the estate assets and distribute them to be happy to assist. KC the beneficiaries in accordance with the deceased’s last will. KC runs a free Legal Referral Service from the Woolgoolga What if the deceased did not leave a will? If the deceased Neighbourhood Centre each Wednesday. She is also available had assets of value or real estate but a will cannot be for regular legal services in Woolgoolga via appointment. Nick’s Nerdy News

How to survive the Storm Season Check the energy absorption rating and ‘clamping voltage’. Due to the recent storm activity This will indicate how much energy it can absorb before in our area, we have been failing. Response time – The time it takes for the surge spending the last few weeks protector to detect a possible surge and lastly Warranty. repairing blown up computers, If you have some extremely valuable equipment that you TV reception issues, modems, would like to keep protected, I would suggest looking into etc. all of which have been an Uninterruptable Power Supply “UPS”. This is a device that effected by power surges. provides emergency power when the mains power source The main question we are fails. It has a battery that provides a run-time (often a few asked is “How can this still minutes, but can last longer depending on the specifications) happen if it was plugged into a that will allow the user enough time to shut down the surge protector?”. attached equipment to avoid damage, data loss, etc. The two key principles to remember when using surge protectors are; 1/ Surge protectors are NOT a guaranteed way to protect your electrical equipment from power surges 2/ Surge protector integrity wears down after time. Generally speaking, a surge protector’s average life span is approx. 3-5 years, however, if you are prone to brown outs and black outs consistently, it is recommended to replace them every 12 months to 2 years. Unfortunately, there is no absolute way to tell if the surge protector is still functioning, some have lights that will indicate to the user that it needs replacing; however, this is still not absolute. When selecting a surge protector there are some things you can look at when purchasing: WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 – 25 Our Woopi Community

Boomerang Bags Next meeting Mar Woolgoolga C.ex. 0429 449 385 followed by guest speaker and dinner 15, 1pm Community Centre Rotary auction first Sat of month. contact Secretary Elfie Garbers 0427 541 032. woolgoolgaeveningviewclub@ CWA Woolgoolga third Monday 10am, Seagulls Woolgoolga – Centre Based gmail.com Visitors always welcome CWA Rooms, 21 Beach Street. Carol Respite Care – Community Centre, 8 0402 249 371. Boundary Street, 6654 0766 Woolgoolga Meals on Wheels and other food Services for over 65’s. Craft Group every Tues 1pm Uniting Seinagers Morning Tea 4th Thursday Open Mon, Wed and Fri 10am-1pm Church, 5 Trafalgar Street of the month. The Sunken Chip, Sandy 8 Boundary Street (Mud brick hall) CROQUET Tuesday and Friday Beach 10.30am You will get to meet 66542870. Good quality meals, morning at 8am. Ganderton Street other retired folk have a laugh, a chat a desserts and soups at a reasonable Days for Girls Coffs Coast Team few jokes, enjoy a free coffee and slice. price. Deliveries on Mondays or pick up meets every 4-6 weeks on a Saturday Tennis Each Tuesday mornings at 9 available from the office/kitchen. from 1pm Uniting Church Hall, 5 am an intrepid group of senior ladies Woolgoolga Mens Shed 6656 1210 Trafalgar St. Contact: Merran Storrie and one brave gent play at the town 0428 571 676 or Theresa Peppernell courts. Always open to newcomers Woolgoolga Mental Health Carer 0407 212 745 coffscoastnsw@ - $3.50 covers the cost of the court Support Group meet fourth Thursday daysforgirls.org Facebook Group Days rental, provides balls and usually funds 10am Neighbourhood Centre For Girls Coffs Coast Team their end of the year lunch Woolgoolga Neighbourhood Centre Euchre every Thur at Woolgoolga Wesley Youth Accommodation Cnr Beach and Boundary St 6654 1598 Diggers 1pm, $2 Service - Woolgoolga Outreach Woolgoolga Probus Club meet fourth Fluro Friday every Friday at 6.30am Service. Specialist homeless service Wednesday, Diggers 0410 466 188 Woolgoolga Beach. Supporting Mental for young people and children between Woolgoolga RSL Sub Branch is part Health. Wear your brightest clothes the ages of 12-25 Every Tuesday 1.30- of RSL NSW their aim is to care for Free Legal Referral Service and 4.30pm Neighbourhood Centre. serving and ex-serving members of discounted wills provided by KC Hilton, Woolgoolga Art Gallery, Turon the Australian Defence Force and Gallagher Solicitors last Wednesday Parade. Open seven days 10am-4pm their families. Meetings are held the of month Woolgoolga Neighbourhood Woolgoolga Community Centre (also second Saturday of each month, except Centre, bookings 6654 1598 known as Mud Brick Hall) 8 Boundary January, 10.30am, at Woolgoolga Grandparents and Kinship Carers Street Diggers Club. 2nd Monday 10am Support group Woolgoolga Community Health Woolgoolga Seniors’ Centre for Grandparents and Carers raising Centre Early Childhood Health 6 Boundary Street, 6654 7311. children. An opportunity to chat with Clinic. Infant health screening, Membership is $10 per year. Come and people who know and understand feeding advice, parent & child groups, have some fun and meet new friends. what you might be going through. new mothers’ groups, immunisation We have a range of activities/events Neighbourhood Centre. 6654 1598 programs and referrals where including exercise classes, craft and Lions Club Woolgoolga first and third appropriate. 6654 1111 knitting groups, computer classes, Thursdays 6pm, Woolgoolga Bowling indoor lawn bowls, table tennis, bus Woolgoolga and District Retirement Club. woolgoolga@lionsdistrict201n1. trips (local and interstate), lunches, line Village Auxiliary meet second org.au or 0444 548 646 dancing and Rummiking. Monday 2pm Contact President Gail Men’s Group meets every Tues from 6649 1816 or Beth 6649 2835 Woolgoolga Sewing and Textiles 9am. Board games and cards, Uniting Art Group meets Tuesday mornings, Woolgoolga Day VIEW Club Meet Church, 5 Trafalgar Street. Masonic Hall (next to Woolworths). 3rd Thur 10.30am Digger’s Club. $5 for North Coast Potters are welcoming Learn to sew, work on own projects. coffee and meeting/speaker/activity of new members for workshops and Machines/equipment available. other activities. Lyn 6654 2478 or the day. Stay on for lunch in the Bistro 9.30am to 12.30pm. Ph. 0498 109 108 if desired. VIEW – Voices, Interests, [email protected] Woopi Community Gardens – open Education of Women – supporting Paul Mannix JP for the services of the Wed and Sat 8-12. Come for a cuppa at the Smith Family’s Learning For Life New South Wales Justices Association 10am [email protected] www. Program. Contact Barbara Letts 0458 Inc (NSWJA) A free JP service every woopigardens.com.au 0421 225 369 420 780 [email protected] Friday between 9am - 10.30am at Woopi Connect On Demand Woolgoolga and District Garden Woolgoolga Central outside the public transport. 7am-7pm Mon-Fri. Club meets second Saturday, 1.30pm Bakery. Paul can also be contacted on Download the app or phone 6654 0581 0418120066 for any urgent matters. Senior Centre. 0419 414 324 Woopi Walkers meet in front of the Woolgoolga District Orchid Society, Red Cross second Tuesday 1.30pm Surf Club every Tuesday and Thursday fourth Saturday, 2pm Community CWA rooms 0409 600 056 Friendship at 8am then back to Taffy’s for coffee. afternoon tea last Friday of month, Centre. 0447 323 761 Senior Citizens 2pm 0409 600 056 Woolgoolga Evening View Club For listings please email Rotary Club of Woolgoolga, meet meet 2nd Wednesday, 6pm C.ex Club [email protected] second and fourth Mondays 6-8pm (Bowlo) in the cinema room. Meeting before 15th of each month 26 – WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 Our Woopi Community

Community a number of Australian Transport Government initiatives, which focus on keeping Helping to drive our people independent, healthy community. and socially active as well as As we get older, simple tasks living in their home longer,” such as getting to medical Ms. Langford said. appointments, dropping “It’s the volunteers that work into the supermarket or just tirelessly giving up their getting out to be social with precious time that make this some friends gets harder a truly personalised service and harder. But thanks to the for our community,” she said. work of some very generous Volunteers donated over volunteers there is a 35,000 hours to the service community service available last year, equating to around to drive local residents 92,000 kilometres travelled around for essential living throughout the mid north and independence. coast. The Community Many clients take part in Transport Company social outings which are organised on a weekly to has over 35 vehicles “Just in case they need to they require transport.” monthly basis. There are travelling everyday use the service to get them also a number of regular More information about throughout the region to an appointment urgently, the service can be found at picking up passengers shopping buses that pick at least they are on the www.communitytransport. who are frail, aged, clients up from their home, taking them to the shops. system and it’s a matter of net.au or calling elderly or living with just booking in a time when 1300 812 504. a disability so they The Community Transport Company does have a can access essential criteria eligibility and services. encourages anyone The Community Transport interested in using our Company, CEO, Bethany service to call us to discuss Langford said, “Our his or her individual travel Wesley Youth Accommodation Service CBN passengers are offered a needs. Woolgoolga Outreach Service unique door-to-door service “I’d particularly encourage for those who are having anyone on an Aged Care Wesley Youth Accommodation Service is a specialist homeless service for young people and children between difficulty getting around, Package to contact us to the ages of 12-25 who are homeless or are at risk of can’t use public transport talk about how we help. It becoming homeless in Coffs Bellingen Nambucca area or other transport services is important that anyone are just not available in their wanting to access transport area. in the future that they do so We are a non-for-profit sooner rather than later, she We provide: organisation funded by said. • Person-centered case management including goals setting, information, referral and advocacy • Outreach Services providing support for young people aged 16-25 years to access suitable housing options. • Under 16s HYAP offers support to 12-15 year old’s. The Family First Aid Courses Reconciliation model works with the child and the family on a case plan that focuses on the best interest of the child. Registered Paramedics with current TAE40116 training and • Crisis Accommodation available for ages 14 - 17 assessment.

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Northern Beaches Preseason Training has from 5.30pm. interested head down to Blues – AFL commenced for the Seniors. They’re also on the look Centennial Oval and talk to Every Tuesday and Thursday out for umpires so if you’re one of the officials.

Woopi Netball 15 Reps - Ashlee Ellaby, Bronte Harris, U17 Reps - Paris Kelsall, Keeley Forster, Tailah Ashfield, Georgia Rawlinson, Holly Brooker, Lara Baker, Aspyn Congratulations to the Emma Purves, Maddison Johnson, Keegan, Ailish Barry, Chelsea Harris, following athletes selected to Isabelle Turner, Ava Gallagher, Chelsea Imogen Thompsen, Sharnise Duckett, represent Woolgoolga in 2020. McKinnon and Brydi Custance. Alina Sturch and Alexie Martin.

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Woolgoolga Physical The uniforms have gone from material and braid Culture Club is to leotards sparkling with celebrating 50 diamantes, ballets from years this year, black to silver, the routines 35 of those under and music are constantly changing, keeping it the guidance of enjoyable for participants of instructress Gail all ages. Airlie. What an The small club has enjoyed achievement! wonderful successes over the years, producing 16 Recognise anyone? Grand Champions (1st in the State) in their age divisions. and have something to offer. classmates often makes Woolgoolga teams are Everyone can do something every girl feel special” said regularly seen receiving in Physie beautifully and Gail. 1st place at North Coast displaying this to their Gail promotes club cohesion Zone competitions. From and strongly believes “that our little Northern Beaches to be part of a team is community big things are very special, you not only achieved. compete for yourself but for None of this would be your teammates.” possible without the Doing your dedication and commitment personal best, Gail gives to the girls that having confidence choose Physie as their sport. Gail is always encouraging in yourself, the girls, promoting their congratulating others self-esteem, focusing on and most importantly, how beautifully they can enjoying yourself, do a certain position and is the ethos of demonstrating how they do Woolgoolga Physical this to the rest of the class. Club. “I think this makes every girl in the team feel they are Gail’s inspiration is her playing an important role girls. Watching them grow from starry-eyed 5 year- olds through to beautiful, confident, humble, gracious, poised young women, all the while being involved in a worthwhile community endeavour. The comment ‘Once a Physie girl always a Physie girl’ rings true, so if there are any past Physie girls out there, or you would like to give it a try, classes are held at Sandy Beach school, Mondays and Wednesdays. You’re welcome to join in. In their 40th year Woolgoolga produced three Grand Champions, imagine what they can achieve in their 50th! 30 – WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 7 – MARCH 2020 Woopi sport

Freediving is about inward of showcasing the stunning reefs power, discipline and and waters off the Coffs Coast and surrounds. control The competition is hosted by the Coffs Imagine entering the underwater world Harbour Bluewater Freedivers and will quietly, on your own terms and staying be held out of Woolgoolga over the for as long as your breath allows you … weekend of 21st-22nd March. then while you’re there catching your Competitors can dive between Hat dinner. Head in the South to Evans Head in Freediving is certainly not for the faint the North, converging on Woolgoolga hearted, being a form of underwater on Sunday to weigh in their carefully diving that relies on holding your breath selected fish. Divers are limited to until you resurface rather than relying weighing in only five fish, with pelagic on breathing apparatus such as scuba species being targeted; including gear. wahoo, kingfish, mahi-mahi, mackerel The Australian Bluewater Freediving and tuna as well as snapper and Classic (ABFC) is in to its 25th year mulloway. and the overall competition winner. Spearfishing is a safe, selective and Divers will weigh in their fish on Sunday sustainable method of catching fish with divers regularly allowing fish to 22nd from 2pm at the Woolgoolga swim by, to target a single prize fish. Beach Reserve and the public is invited This year there is over $2000 in cash to come along, watch and take part up for grabs, as well as handmade in the fish auction hosted by Marine Australian spearguns and fins, bespoke Rescue Woolgoolga. knives, spearfishing hardware and If you’re after a meal of fish, you won’t vouchers plus much more. Prizes will get any fresher than this! be awarded to the largest fish of certain For more information please visit species, points winner of each division chbfreedivers.com

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