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ABN 58 129 541 706 August / September 2015 Issue 61 Our Collective Shame ... A recent report should strike Australia by various means. Their one of the worst extinction records Predation by feral cats is initially concern into everyone’s heart. report “The State of Australia’s of any country. to be examined with proposals to Birds 2015” has collated statistics In 2011, there were 444 species eliminate large populations of these. The report released by Birds for a total of 1,174 species and of fishes, frogs, reptiles, birds, Everyone can do something for our Australia has revealed some deeply subspecies concerning statistics regarding some mammals, and other animals birds – think carefully when you are of our most iconic and regularly on Australia’s buying plants, and look at buying seen birds. And this is just the tip Environmental Australian plants, local to the area, of the iceberg concerning our Protection and and something that can provide beloved Australian birds. shelter, food or habitat for our birds. Falling bird “Swamps, Rivers and Ranges” populations are not a is a local community-driven new phenomenon, project designed to strengthen the sadly. Populations relationships between people and worldwide are the landscapes they live in, for their under threat mutual benefit. It is covering a large with habitat area of North East Victoria, sadly destruction, not including Yack at this stage, weather but there are some great ideas and change projects likely to come out of this and ever- that will help with addressing increasing decreasing habitat and looking human at threatened species. See their populations. website at swampsriversandranges. Headlines in org 2005 and 2009 in Australia Welcome To pointed out that common birds Your New like lorikeets, Editor thornbills and The Board of YCDCo are delighted honeyeaters had to announce the arrival of Yackity declined dramatically. Yak’s new editor, Lauren Salathiel. In the UK, studies show Biodiversity Lauren will take over from out-going that there has been a halving of Conservation Act editor, Ali Pockley, for the October/ farmland bird numbers during the List of Threatened November edition of the paper. past 40 years. Fauna. Only 4 years later, Lauren comes with some wonderful across For our area – South East Mainland more than 1,850 animals and plants newspaper credentials and the Board nine regions. For comprehensive – significant decline is being noticed are now listed on this self-same list. are very confident that the next stage coverage of the results and the data of development for your community in iconic, everyday favourites produced, see stateofbirds.org.au Australia was recently ranked newspaper will be in very safe hands! such as the Laughing Kookaburra, among the bottom 40 countries The paper has continued to develop We all know that Australia’s record Magpie and Willie Wagtail. Much for the funding of its share of with both content and advertising of this area has been cleared, and of declining species is at an all time global biodiversity, considering take up and revenue, and no doubt the remaining forest is eucalypt disgraceful high. We have the fastest its governance, size and wealth Lauren will have some great ideas on how to continue this and to see woodland and open forest. rate of declining or threatened according to Proceedings of the species in the world. And it will Yackity Yak flourish into the future. The reasons for this rapid decline National Academy of Sciences take a huge amount of effort to turn Welcome Lauren! We look forward of bird population is not yet known (PNAS). So it is with a small around this appalling state of affairs to a long and productive run with you although there are suspects such as amount of relief that we see a for our extraordinary wildlife. at the helm of Yackity Yak. habitat destruction, changing land Threatened Species Summit Since European colonisation, use, pollution and predation. held in mid July in Melbourne, Phil Newman & Board 30 mammals (more than 10% of with an emphasis on birds and Data on our declining population of YCDCo Australia’s mammal species) have habitat protection and restoration. birds has been collected by Birds been declared extinct. Australia has
Visit our Town’s Tourist Information website, call in at the Old Post Office, and make sure you take your visitors there. There are some great people there to help you uniqueyackandandah.com.au YACKITY YAK Yackity Yak is a free bi-monthly publication aimed at providing news, entertainment and ARE YOU A YACK BASED BUSINESS, OR DO YOU information to the people of Yackandandah. SERVE THE YACK AREA? Yackity Yak is published by YCDCo (Yackity Would you like to advertise in Yackity Yak? Yak) Pty Ltd. and 1,500 copies of Yackity Yak We are always keen to attract advertisers for this great community paper. It has a are printed with each release with a minimum of 900 copies distributed free of charge to homes circulation of 1,500 copies and is delivered free of charge every two months. in the Yackandandah and surrounding area via It’s also available at the following outlets: Australia Post. CONTACT DETAILS: * YCDCo * Visitor Info Centre Editor / Advertising / Printing / Accounts *Doctors’ Surgeries *Indigo Shire Council Lauren Salathiel *YCC *Yack PO *Yack Newsagency Yackity Yak C/- Yackandandah Post Office, It’s a great way to get your message across to the Yack community & doesn’t cost High Street, an arm & a leg. Yackandandah VIC 3749 Ph: 0422 854 909 Speak with Lauren if you would like to advertise & we will do our best to E-mail: [email protected] accommodate your wishes. Tel. 0422 854 909 or email: [email protected] Web: uniqueyackandandah.com.au Yackity Yak wishes to advise that the views and or remarks expressed in this publication are not necessarily the views of Yackity Yak editorial YOUR NEW EDITOR! or production staff, and no endorsement or service is implied by the listing of advertisers or I’m thrilled to step into the rather large editorial boots left by Ali, who has contributors. turned the Yackity Yak into a dynamic little paper for our community during Although every effort is taken in reproducing her two and a half years at the helm. and printing advertisements correctly, we take no I come to the task as a relative newbie in Yackandandah - I’ve been living responsibility for errors. here since 2013 - however, I’m no stranger to the newspaper game, 2015 DEADLINES: having worked as a journalist and sub-editor at a handful of papers around Forthcoming deadlines for submission of northern and north-east Victoria (although I now work settling refugee advertisements and articles for the Yackity Yak families in Albury and Wodonga). are 5pm on the following days: To quote Maria from the Sound of Music, a “few of my favourite things” Issue 62 - Oct/Nov - Monday, 14 Sept, 2015 include making things with my hands (think handbound books, items Issue 63 Dec/Jan - Monday, 9th Nov, 2015 stitched or knitted!), hiking, watching Wes Anderson films, baking and Please note that all advertising must be paid in presenting the odd radio show at Indigo FM with my sidekick (and husband) full prior to that issue deadline. We can make no Chris, and I aspire to one day grow the perfect Brussels sprout plant... I’m exceptions. pretty sure next year will be my year. All new advertisements or alterations to current I also love a good yarn, and hope that you, dear readers, will allow me to advertisements must be submitted one business week (5 days) before the deadline. record your stories, great and small, in the pages of our local newspaper. As per media law requirements, no If you have a story you would like to share in future editions of Yackity Yak, advertisements can be printed without a current, please contact me at the phone number or email address listed on this completed and signed booking slip. page, so we can arrange time for a chat. Please contact the Editor for the booking slip. Lauren Salathiel Ph: 0422 854 909 or [email protected]
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It’s very exciting having some new businesses in town, and we have on the circulation and readability of the paper. I am certain that the good new owners at both the motels. Great to hear that they are already people of Yack will continue to support the paper with their reports and collaborating. It always gives the town a bit of a buzz when new photos. Thank you all for your enthusiasm, kind comments and input into enthusiastic businesses come to town, so we look forward to more of Yackity Yak - I have had such fun doing it, and will miss the bi-monthly that into the future. It’s been sad to recently say goodbye to some old panic! favourites, with more likely to come. There’s nothing like being an editor of a community newspaper to make Well, this is my last Yackity Yak, and I’d like to thank everyone involved you feel utterly part of the community. Whether it’s from a point of seeking over the past two and half years, including husband, Jack - my bell wether! out stories, farewelling much loved residents, celebrating the great things He’s been fantastic in making sure that I haven’t pushed too many of my that this Yack community seems honour-bound to keep doing or just being barrows or been too biased in my reporting, and having farming weekends greeted on the street, I feel so much part of this wonderful township and disrupted by concentrated bursts of computer work for the paper; to Matt very honoured to have had the chance to report on the good and the bad Charles-Jones for his asiduous overseeing of the paper in my early days things that have happened over the past two and a half years. and for helping steer the paper to a solid financial situation; to Kevin I will still continue to have a fair bit of community involvement with various Poyner who took over from Matt and has adopted the same supportive bits and bobs I’m involved with, so I shall enjoy feeding in information to hands-off approach! To David McIlwain for his help with Photoshop, Lauren and Yackity Yak, and watching how it develops. to Peter Ross for his wonderful proof-reading talents and to Reg for continuing to supply us with the rain reports and some excrutiating jokes! In the meantime, I will be putting more energy into the Community Centre, Also to Rosalee O’Neil of North East Media - Yackity Yak’s printers in riding my horses, painting watercolours and enjoying the property. Oh, and Wangaratta - so helpful with advice and keeping me to deadlines. also pruning those pesky olive trees! I’ve really enjoyed my time at the helm here, but it’s time now to pass the All the best, and looking forward to seeing you all around the traps in Yack. editorial baton on to Lauren Salathiel, who I am sure will continue to build Ali Pockley
OUR MAGNIFICENT SEVEN ! Wheel chairs— $5 per day or $10 per week. Lorna Anderson’s 100th birthday on 4th July Maximum hire period one week bought our tally of ladies over 100 years of age Shower chairs—$8 per week—maximum hire to seven. We celebrated this amazing record one month th with afternoon tea on Tuesday 7 July. WIN Over toilet seats— $8 per week—maximum hire News has been following this story for several one month months and were keen to highlight this story, as Shower commodes— $10 per week—maximum was Prime TV and The Border Mail. Channel you would like to become a new member please hire one month Nine national news, and Radio 3AW interviewed contact us. a number of our ladies, highlighting their varied Members of Yackandandah Health receive a FUNDRAISING 50% discount on the above prices. Membership FOCUS – $50,000. Our is open to all residents and is $10 per annum for fundraising kitty for our families and $5 per annum for singles. refurbishment program is rising slowly. The Men’s Equipment can be hired by contacting our admin Shed group recently held 2 staff on Monday to Friday between the hours of wood raffles to support our 10:00am and 4:00pm. project, raising an amount Meeting/Training Room for Hire: Our meeting of $1,022.80. This takes room is available for community groups who our tally to $3,922. Our are looking for a comfortable space to meet. A thanks to everyone who small kitchenette provides tea and coffee making purchased tickets. The facilities and we have a white board, projector lucky winners were Mark and television available with USB access. The McKenzie-McHarg and room will comfortably seat 30 people theatre June (surname unknown). style and 20 people for conference or training. Thanks also to the Men’s There is a separate access for privacy. Enquiries Shed for their support. can be made on 02 6028 0100. The Magnificent Seven - with seven hundred and seven years of collective If you would like to Primary Health Services: Border Pathology knowledge between them! support our campaign continues to offer a full pathology service on by giving a donation Tuesdays and Fridays from 8am to 11am. Our life experiences and secrets to a long and healthy or purchasing an item, please call Lisa in other services include –Physiotherapy (Rebecca life. Our wonderful ladies pictured, from left: administration. We have costed all items for Stamp), Remedial Massage (Julie Walker) and Emily Adams 100 yrs, Monica Goonan 100 each room – furniture, curtains and decorative Kinesiology (Treena Costin). years, Lorna Anderson 100 years, Ada Maddock pieces. For example a chair will cost on average 105 years, Hazel Fox 100 years, Elizabeth Gray $700 (keeping in mind the need to purchase items We have a number of consult rooms available for 101 years and Lila Govett 101 years. suitable for aged care), coffee tables $300 and health professionals to rent at a very reasonable price. If you are interested, please give us a call. DIARY NOTE – ANNUAL GENERAL other items as per the decoration boards. MEETING: Equipment Hire: Do you have any queries regarding entering aged care? We are happy to arrange an Our AGM will be held on site We have had a number appointment to show you around our wonderful th on Tuesday 29 September. Our of community members facility or answer queries regarding fees and guest speaker this year will be availing themselves of our charges. Please contact us on 6028 0100 to make Susan O’Neil, CEO of Albury/ hire equipment recently an appointment. Wodonga Health. We encourage all financial – this is a convenient members to attend. We have an upcoming alternative to hiring in town. WEBSITE – yackandandahhealth.com.au vacancy on the Committee of Management and Our equipment for hire Our website now offers up to date information invite applications from people with enthusiasm includes: wheelchairs, shower chairs, shower on our aged care and primary health services, and commitment to join our team. We are still commodes and over toilet seats. along with latest news, events and employment accepting membership payments for 2015/16. If opportunities. We welcome your feedback. We offer short term hire at the following rates: August / September 2015 Yackity Yak 3 More Transport Solutions for Indigo Residents DEATHS Leading regional community transport service provider Community Susan Joy Jackson Accessability Inc. continues to look at ways to support local residents to access public transport services. Passed away peacefully at Murray Valley Private Hospital, Wodonga Recently, Community Accessability began providing a V/Line on Saturday, May 30, 2015 aged booking service from its head office, which is centrally located at 66 years. Dearly loved wife of 102 Hume St, Wodonga. People are able to visit the office and book and pay for their tickets. Reg. Loved mother of Roslyn, Andrew, James, Conveniently, tickets can also be purchased over the phone and collected later, a time saving Annette, Philip, Kalab, Scott and Charlie. Loving bonus for border residents. sister of Neryl (dec), Margery and Eleanor (dec). To further support access to public transport services, Community Accessability now provides Forever with the Lord. this location as a place to purchase the myki visitor pack. The pack consists of a pre-loaded The funeral service to celebrate the life of myki card, discount vouchers for Melbourne attractions and a card holder. The cost of the the late Mrs Susan Joy Jackson was held at pack is the same as if you were purchasing the card on its own and then loading it with credit. Yackandandah Community Church, Schmidt Packs are priced at $14 for full fare and $7 for concession, child and seniors. Lane, Yackandandah on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 “Border residents and visitors are now able to buy their myki card before they get to at 10:30 am. At the conclusion of the service, the Melbourne. People are often of the belief that they can purchase a myki card from the local V/ cortege left for the Yackandandah Cemetery. Line station, but this is not the case until you reach Seymour” says CEO Helen Hunter. “Our staff are also available to provide information on how to use the cards for those who are new to the myki system or for general transport information.” HELP CONQUER CANCER Community Accessability often works in partnership with other services to find solutions to Devonshire teas and scones and a Garden transport disadvantage and reducing the barriers that people with mobility issues face when Walk will be all the go on this day at the accessing public transport. Since late 2014, they have been partnering with V/Line and McIntosh residence Travellers Aid Australia to provide a much needed buggy service from the buses and carpark, to the platforms of Seymour Railway Station. 120 Bells Flat Road, Yackandandah Operating throughout the Hume region, many of the services provided by Community from 10.00 am to 12 noon on Accessability are provided with the assistance and dedication of volunteers. “We are blessed Thursday, 10th September. by over two hundred volunteers who support us with the delivery of our assisted transport services and our disability respite program but we are always on the lookout for more $10 per person (which includes a Devonshire volunteers to join our team in supporting their community.” says CEO Helen Hunter. Tea plus a lucky door ticket). So if you would like to volunteer your time, you need a V/Line ticket or myki card or you Funds raised are being donated to the want to find out more about the services that Community Accessability provides, drop into 102 Hume St, Wodonga, call on 1300 704 530 or email [email protected] Conquer Cancer 200 km bike ride in which Suzanne McIntosh and Kim Hicks are riding during October 2015. Please RSVP to Suzanne on 0411 234 277 by
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AFSL 247298 Oh Reg! 4 Yackity Yak August / September 2015 Yackandandah CFA With Winter now two thirds gone, at motor vehicle accidents, which Thus, we are still waiting patiently sure the needle in the pressure the warmer days are drawing are commonly known as MVAs. for this action to begin. dial is in the green. Check also, closer. Although the Brigade has Collaborative training between Still Winter that wasps haven’t clogged the experienced a quiet time so far these two emergency services has nozzle with mud, which is often this year, the training regime has not been frequently practised in the As Winter is still with us, it is discovered when it is needed in a continued, even on frosty nights. past, but will be in the future due pertinent to remind you, dear reader, hurry!! If advice on extinguishers A valuable and interesting training to the intended amalgamation of of the hazards of structural fires in is required, contact members of session was held with the local SES emergency services in Victoria. the cold and wet conditions, as well the Fire Brigade. There are always as on frosty mornings when heaters in early July, in relation to floods Station Alterations volunteers at the Yack Fire Station and the dangers they create, both to and fireplaces are doing their best to on Saturday mornings between 8:30 the general public and to emergency The proposed alterations to the keep everyone warm. and 9:15 a.m. crews. As the Brigade has been fire-station to alleviate the danger Have you considered developing a to crews by dressing in the vehicle And don’t forget to prune your very active in flood rescues in the Winter fire plan to discuss with all bays, is probably getting closer!! driveways so tankers can enter if the past, it is vital that co-operation in the household, and having it stuck impossible happens. with the SES, and knowledge of The bureaucratic processes with on the fridge. beside the Summer their practices during floods, has such projects do grind away in the plan? If you haven’t, this is a good Remember that the main cause of currency. background, and given the benefits time to do it!! house fires is washing hung to dry too close to heat sources. While SES and CFA are two provided by the Arrow of Time Also a good time to re-check the separate organisations, they often pointing to the future, do eventually electric blankets, and look at any Keep these numbers on hand, and work in collaboration, particularly coalesce. portable extinguishers to make always ring VicFire before burning a rubbish heap.
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August / September 2015 Yackity Yak 5 The Yack Shack - Running on Sunlight! A Totally Renewable Men’s Shed! The Yack Shack is now running on sunlight - thanks to a grant from the Into Our Hands Community Foundation and support from Towards Tomorrow Energy. The off-grid system supplies all the lighting and a number of power points. We have now completed the insulation and plywood cladding to conserve energy and are in the final stages of fitting our workbenches. Our thanks to local community members for all the support in achieving this milestone. Thanks particularly to the Whacko to the Men’s Shed! You’re all Garden Club, Gary and Andy brilliant and light up our lives. for helping our purchase of In speaking to President John Bradley a defibrillator, and to Mick recently, I learn that there are now some Sidoti for the electrical 40 members of the Yack Shack. It has installation been a wonderful thing for so many of our men in our community, and men of Frank Burfitt, Secretary all ages are always welcome. Yackandandah Men’s Shed Look for the A frame out in front of the The Yack Shack Mk 11 taking shape. All hands to the deck... mensshed@yackandandah. house in Isaacs Avenue next to the com Doctors’ Surgery when the men are at 0417 130 541 home. A warm welcome awaits you... Ed
Members of TRY have been busy To date, we have spoken to efficient. and we can make a convenient over the winter calling around and householders in about 60 houses This winter appointment to call around. visiting residents of Yackandandah in Yack, and there are plans to has certainly In the meantime, we continue to to find out what the township continue to visit and carry out our shown scratch our heads at the current state generally thinks of TRY’s ambition survey of residents and houses where of politics concerning renewable to see the township powered entirely so that we can gauge houses are energy sources, and if anything, it by renewable energy by 2022. It overall interest in the either failing makes us more determined to see a has also been a great opportunity project and to build or producing good better way of providing electricity. to find out what creating things a clear picture of results in how they householders have been doing, are what people We held our AGM at the beginning work in persistently cold of July, and the committee consists planning or intending to carry out are doing. weather - we have had many in the foreseeable future to make We are of two joint Presidents - Matthew more days and nights of very Charles-Jones and Matt Grogan, and their houses more environmentally also cold temperatures recently, which Treasurer/Secretary/Public Officer sustainable. have no doubt shown just how well able - Ali Pockley. We have an active Yack has one of the highest take- houses are insulated, and how much working group of 12 people or so, ups of solar/photo voltaic to fuel is needed to keep them warm. offer an but are always delighted to see new panels in Victoria at about 30% If you would like to take advantage faces at our meetings. of properties, and residents have audit of your property to see of having an energy audit carried out Please contact Ali on 0448 803 411 clearly not been resting on their or would like to complete the survey laurels, but have been busy looking where savings and if you are able to give some of your changes can be made to which takes about 10 minutes, then time and expertise to the group. at all sorts of ways of cutting their please contact us at 0448 803 411 electricity consumption and costs. make houses more energy
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Enrolments for 2016 are now open at Yack Old Time Dance Group Last September, for the first time, the Yackandandah Old Time Dance Group organised a weekend of dance over a Saturday evening and Sunday. The event was
a tremendous success for the town in that quite a number of people from all over Please collect an enrolment form and information pack from the kindergarten Victoria came for the weekend to participate. or download a copy from our website at www.yackandandahkinder.com.au This coming September 12th and 13th will see us host a like event and 2016 programs include: arrangements provide for Ian Werthal from Portland to provide the music. Ian is a 3 year old program on Wednesday and/or Friday well renowned dance hall musician with a tremendous personality to go with it, a Funded 4 year old program on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday (select 2 very entertaining man indeed. days only) If you are fond of good music then by all means come along. One doesn’t have Non funded school readiness program on Friday for 4 year olds to be a dancer to enjoy great music. The event is good for the town and keeps We are a registered care provider and eligible families are able to receive the Yackandandah at the top of the tree in ballroom dancing circles. Child Care Rebate for any of our programs. 4 year old children enrolled in our Kindergarten program are eligible to use Out We’ve been going for 22 years now and are only just getting warmed up. of School Hours Care at Yackandandah Primary School from 7am to 6pm. Stan Sutherland, President “WHO ARE YOU?” A WATERCOLOUR WORKSHOP WITH CHARLES Nine of us met up in the Athenaeum for a week in July to hone our watercolour painting skills with Charles Sluga. We had come from Shepparton, Canberra, the Mid NSW Coast, Yackandandah and Albury Wodonga to revitalise our interest and techniques with watercolour. There’s no doubt that it is one of the most testing painting mediums, but for that very reason, one of the most rewarding when everything works out accordingly! This particular five day workshop involved the techniques behind composition and the use of watercolour paints, using different surfaces and concentrating on developing our own concepts and themes and discovering who we are as painters. It takes a lot of courage to do this - the medium can be quite unforgiving unlike oils which are able to be more more manipulated and at a later stage of the painting, but it was fantastic to have five days to spend time with fellow artists, concentrate on regaining old skills which hadn’t been used for years, digging out the equipment and dusting it off, finding the paint dried in old tubes of paint and the pleasure of buying new ones! The Athenaeum is a great place for these classes and Charles a very inspirational teacher. He is incredibly generous with his advice, tips and critiquing, and was quick to show by example with lightning quick watercolours to highlight his points. I am also delighted to hear that he will be experimenting with oils soon and so hopefully there will be classes available in that medium as well. In the meantime ,at the workshop we worked hard, all produced some inspiring pieces, pushed our techniques and were able to take a far more pragmatic and educated view at what makes a picture work, why it should and how we can continue to improve our work in the future. What fun! I can think of very few nicer things to do on a cold winter’s day than to get inspired, slosh paint and water about and revel in new and refined techniques to create a picture with such great company. It was so inspiring and I will ensure that my watercolour paints get used and don’t sit around drying out, and that the moths don’t have the opportunity to have a crack at my expensive paintbrushes - grrrrr...! Thanks Charles - it was terrific. Perhaps you could consider running some life classes when the weather warms up and some plein air classes - those haystacks are calling! Ali Pockley
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Lone Pine: the Cemeteries and Crematoria Association of Victoria Right of Internment: We often get asked whether a person other than a (CCAV) has donated one hundred and sixty Lone Pines to cemeteries funeral director has to assist with a funeral. Here is the extract from the around Victoria to commemorate one hundred years since the landing at Department of Health website Gallipoli. The pine originates from seeds collected from the Lone Pine at ‘Cremation or interment conducted by a family or other persons without the Australian War Memorial, one of four planted from a pine cone brought the assistance of a funeral director back from the Lone Pine at Gallipoli. More information can be found at ccav.org.au and search ‘lone pine’. The Committee is currently discussing There is no law in Victoria that requires a person to use the services of a the appropriate location of the pine in the cemetery and hopes to be able to funeral director. A family (or other persons) can perform some or all of the arrangements necessary prior to the body of the deceased being delivered to the cemetery for cremation or interment providing all the necessary legal requirements have been met. Members of the community who wish to arrange a funeral without the assistance of a funeral director are encouraged to contact the Cemetery Trust of their choice to ascertain the legal and procedural requirements. Under regulations 23 and 26 of the Cemeteries and Crematoria Regulations 2015, a body must be transported into a cemetery in a coffin, container or receptacle. In Victoria at present, there is some variation in what some crematoria may, or may not, accept. Therefore, if a person is organising a cremation or burial for their family member, relative or friend, it is important that all details relating to the construction and materials unveil the plaque at the next cemetery walk in October. of coffins/containers/receptacles be discussed and confirmed with the General Meeting: Our next meeting is Wednesday 5th August at 7.30pm at cemetery before use.’ Yack Community Centre. This will also include an annual Budget Meeting. ANNA HESSION Fee update: Every year, the fee schedule is reviewed and increased relative to the CPI. The updated fee schedule is available on our website at Chair cemetery.yackandandah.com
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8 Yackity Yak August / September 2015 Yack & District Historical Society Inc. The Ovens & Murray Advertiser - out by Messrs Mc Dermott and Hall, won’t turn any lights on, we could areas. (Robyn has written some Saturday 14 March 1914 the Rev. Mr. Preece officiating at the use our torches instead. We were excellent papers available online at graveside. given a “find it” card and in the Academia.edu which many would Obituary. main room there were two things to find interesting!). ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY find. We also talked about the fire On the 5th inst., there passed away OF VICTORIA SEMINAR While Robyn was in Yackandandah, at Yackandandah one of the oldest from 2006 then we walked to the she viewed the Yackandandah pioneers of this district, in the In May, the RHSV Support Group cottage that the bank owner lived Shire map, held temporarily at the person of Mr. Walter H. Roper, at held a seminar in Yackandandah. in. Some of the Cubs were scared Museum while awaiting its care and the age of 84 years, he having been We hosted the event and it was of the mannequins and the day after return to public view. Hopefully a a resident of this district for nearly well attended with delegates they said they had nightmares. We Masters student will use the map as 62 years. Arriving at Beechworth coming from Albury, Bright, went down the cellar and saw a dead part of their studies, as happened in the early fifties, in partnership Corryong, Kiewa Valley, Mansfield, rat (eew!) and we also saw a blue with the Bullock Hide also held in with his brother John he commenced Myrtleford, Rutherglen, Wangaratta tongue lizard. That was the end of the Museum business as a general storekeeper and Wodonga Historical Societies. our tour, everyone liked it and I had at Silver Creek, at a place since a lot of fun. SELLING FAST known as Roper’s Hill. As soon as The programme was designed to strengthen development of practical Isabel McClellan, 9 years old Colin Barnard’s Volume 6 of his the rich alluvial deposits began to history of Yackandandah is selling open up along the Yackandandah skills and the presenters covered a GREATER NUMBERS well. This is available from the Creek he removed to Kirby’s range of topics such as caring for The winter months, and school Museum. Flat, where for several years he indigenous artefacts including legal holidays have resulted in good conducted a similar business, also compliance, and tips for treasurers This volume covers the years acting as an extensive gold buyer. It with particular emphasis on not-for- attendances at the Museum. Lots 1896—1900. Congratulations was here he was married, his wife profit organisations. There was also of travelling people with time again to Colin for painstakingly predeceasing him by five years. a demonstration of online sites and to browse, many comments of researching and recording the Thence he removed to High-Street, resources which could assist with appreciation about our town and history of our town. Yackandandah, into the premises research and help build an online people, as well as the Museum. MEMBERSHIPS now owned by Mr. Wm. Ramsay. For presence. They continue to be very many years he there successfully appreciative of the exhibition Please consider becoming a Member The seminar concluded with a carried on a general store, until ‘Yackandandah Remembers or a Friend of the Yackandandah talk on the pros and cons of using about 1884, when he disposed of 1914-18”, many of them with family and District Historical Society and Facebook as a way to foster and the property to the late Mr. John connections. support the work we do. Call in to encourage membership and how Haig, and since then has lived in the Museum and join. Membership it can open up new directions for ANNUAL MEETING comparative retirement, filling costs $15 each, or Friend $10, historical societies. up most of his time at gardening, The annual general meeting was annual fee, due at the Annual of which he was exceedingly It was a successful day and it was held in the cosy meeting room of Meeting in June each year, and fond, and his fame as a grower of good to meet and chat with so the Java Cafe, Yackandandah, with payable from now. chrysanthemums was widely known. many members from other societies twenty five members attending. Linton Lethlean The deceased was of a genial, gen- and share helpful and valuable information. introduced the erous disposition, maintaining all new ‘Adoption the traditions of the typical English Our thanks to those who assisted us of the Rules’ gentleman, and on the day. document during his busi- (required by the ness career be- FERGUS DALE friended many a IN THE MUSEUM Associations distressed family. It was a pleasure Incorporated to have Fergus Amendment He was never Dale for two days Act) and known to resort to at the Museum, as business of the harsh measures part of his school’s meeting was to obtain his own, community service conducted. and may be for Eight that reason so programme. Fergus committee Members of the Yackandandah Historical Society enjoying many old scores did a great job with visitors, producing a members were dinner at the AGM in Java@Yack’s lovely ballroom have been long elected - Linton forgotten. He new ‘What Am I?”, making Facebook Lethlean, Pam OPENING HOURS. always enjoyed Noble, Jennie McKern, Sue Bell, excellent health, recommendations Catherine Crameri, Mark Grealy, The Museum is open from which made his with Bec, and Fergus Dale from the Indigo Valley Brett McLellan and Susan Reynolds. Wednesday to Sunday each week affliction of the enjoying his school Community getting to know the from 11am till 4pm , During Service at the Yack Museum last three months Museum and what it Robyn Sloggett, Director of the Victorian School Holidays we are all the harder to does. Centre for Cultural Materials open every day, 11am to 4 pm. bear. This was also a good opportunity Conservation (CCMC) and We welcome visitors, research, to provide a service to our younger Associate Professor at the volunteers and donations to our He was the last of five brothers, University of Melbourne gave an who all attained to a ripe old age, community. See also page 11. fund-raising during those hours. interesting talk on conservation, including the late Mr. John Roper, Bring in your families and visitors. YACKANDANDAH CUBS discussing the ongoing need for the explorer, after whom the Roper NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM conservators and talking about some Yackandandah & District River, in Northern Territory, has Historical Society Inc been named. On the 14th May, the Cubs and I of her work in engaging indigenous went to the Museum at NIGHT communities. She also spoke about 21 High Street Yackandandah The late Mr. Roper’s last days were with my dad Brett McClellan, who the potential for new approaches 3749 Ph:02 6027 0627 passed comfortably, and his end was in the field of conservation, said that no one else has gone in email: [email protected] peaceful. His remains were interred the Museum at night. So firstly my particularly changing the focus in the Yackandandah cemetery, the dad talked to all of us about what from the major cities in Eastern Web: yackandandahmuseum. funeral arrangements being carried we will do and he also said that we Australia to rural and regional wordpress.com August / September 2015 Yackity Yak 9 88.0 INDIGO FM INDIGO FM TURNED FIVE IN JUNE Indigo FM passed a PROGRAM GUIDE significant milestone recently, turning five August/September years old in June 2015 2015. The station was conceived and created by Yackandandah a handful of volunteers, with broadcasts beginning in Beechworth in June 2010. A few months Program Presenter later, broadcasts began Mondays on the same frequency in Yackandandah, with the 9.30am - 11.30am Monday Morning Memo1 Greg station operating out of Radio Cake, courtesy of Mark Alcock a room in the back of the Tuesdays and Beechworth Bakery! Star Hotel. 12.00pm - 2.00pm Musical Mash Spencer The occasion was marked with a celebratory gathering at the Beechworth 7.30pm – 9.30pm Bullfrog’s Roadhouse Mark Farmers’ Market, where music, balloon, cake and good cheer were given away, along with Wednesdays information about the radio station. 10.00 am - noon Music with Phil Phil 4.00pm – 5.00pm School News Dayna & Jordyn The anniversary provided 7.00pm - 9.00pm The Music Snob Andrew the perfect opportunity to reflect upon how much the station has grown in Thursdays such a short period of time, 7.00pm - 8.00pm Turntable Cafe Sigrid swelling from a handful of enthusiasts in the early Fridays days in Beechworth, to a fully fledged community 7.00am – 9.00 am *Small Town Sounds Chris & Lauren organisation broadcasting 10.00am – 12.00pm Light Classical with Phil Phil across three towns, employing dozens of Laurie Horder & Greg Clydesdale celebrate Indigo volunteers, and supported FM’s fifth birthday with stallholders and shoppers at Saturdays by a passionate membership the Beechworth Farmers’ Market In June. 8.00am – 10.00am *Everyone Deserves Music Scott comprising of many businesses, community groups and individuals across the region. 12.15pm – 1.15pm Musical Mash Spencer Indigo FM continues to grow every year, with plans afoot to build the Indigo FM transmits 24/7, during times when live stations’ profile, share more content between stations, and grow the programs are not put to air the Station plays a audience in each town and online. diverse and eclectic mix of music from all eras. 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10 Yackity Yak August / September 2015 DOG ATTACK ON SHEEP The Joys & Benefits of Volunteering As sheep owners, Jack and I have always been very much aware of the likelihood of a dog attack on our flock. We are the Hi, my name is Fergus Dale. I’m 15 and I of visitors and items sold that day. first property at this end of the Indigo Valley to have sheep, volunteered at the Yackandandah Museum for However, the Museum also encourages and are not far away from the Baranduda Range and the two days in July this year. I loved my time Chiltern National Park. But the reality of it when it happened volunteers to do jobs suitable to their there and would recommend to not only visit interests; for me this was creating a ‘look and was so shocking... the Museum, but also consider volunteering find’ activity for visiting kids and assisting The first thing I knew of it was a ewe lying down on the edge of there. I am originally from Indigo Valley, but I the Museum in setting up a Facebook page. the dam, Tim the ex-poddy up by the gate, and the rest of the now go to boarding school in Melbourne, and During my time, I learnt about the facilities flock at the top of the hill on full alert. The ewe had blood on I chose to volunteer some of my time at the the Museum have available, which could her, so a quick walk down to the roadside fence soon revealed Museum as part of my school’s Community a dead ewe lamb with her throat torn out and back leg eaten. be used for researching family history, Service Program. Sheltering in a fallen tree next to the dead lamb, was a poddy or working on a historical project. from last year, with a chunk out of her back leg, an ear partly As most people in Yack will know, the I found the staff at the Museum ripped off and puncture wounds in her throat. Museum contains an exhibition (currently really welcoming and easy to get along A race up to the house found that a visiting sparky had caught displaying Yackandandah residents who with, and I felt appreciated as a volunteer the offending dog - covered in blood and completely unaware fought in World War 1) and a cottage built and a young person. For people who want to of what it had done. A call to the Shire Ranger saw him arrive in the 1800s showcasing the type of lifestyle help support this community organisation, within 10 minutes, Jack returned from work within half an hour back then. volunteering is a great option as it really is and together we all got the flock in to see what other damage had been done. We later had to destroy another ewe lamb as The Museum also offers extensive research beneficial for the volunteer. the damage to her rear end was too great to fix. facilities for people wanting to explore their You get to meet and work with many local or family history, and sells products such interesting people, and learn about the The dog was taken away by the Ranger and destroyed and as books and local produce. It is a great place we were left to clear up the carcasses. Fortunately the poddy fascinating history of Yackandandah, while for any Yack resident to visit.As a volunteer lamb has recovered fully except for a nerve damaged ear. assisting using a particular skill you might in the Museum, I was mainly responsible for have. It was a great experience for me. A meeting with the dog owner later that week saw an manning the front desk and greeting visitors extremely upset man who had lost his dog without a chance to by explaining to them a bit about the Museum. FERGUS DALE say goodbye, and who was genuinely sorry about the damage I also helped sell items and record the amount to our sheep. He reimbursed us for our loss with the ewe lambs and apologised profusely. This was an outcome that we were not expecting as apparently people are not always ready Letters to the Editor to accept their responsibilities as dog owners, particularly when attacks on stock occur. The dog, however, was neither registered or micro-chipped. Dear Ali, we have an opportunity now to influence Had it not turned up at the house, we might never had known In the recent “planning permit application what this estate can look like, how it lies what had caused the attacks and very likely had more damage register for Indigo Shire”, it came to my in sympathy with its surrounding bush done. Please ensure you know where your dog is at all times. notice that an and how it reflects Ali Pockley application for a the neighbourhood 190 lot subdivision characteristics of in Yackandandah Yackandandah. Reg’s Rain Report is “in progress” on I ask people to have Twist Creek Rd, a conversation with 2015 mm Days Rain between McIntosh their local councillors. Jan 131.0 7 Lane and the Let them know what Feb 51.6 6 Yackandandah- you love most about Beechworth Rd. Yackandandah and March 8.8 4 It made me ask what your vision for April 106.4 9 myself what I its future should be. May 98.4 11 wanted the future Anna Hession, June 66.2 9 of Yackandandah Local Yackandandah fauna Yackandandah Village to look like. July to 12th 32.8 6 * * * * * * * * * Total 495.2 52 My concerns for building a 190 lot estate Dear Madam, are around the infrastructure that our town 12/7/*2013 348.4 43 has in place or plans to put in place to I write to inform the community and local 12/7/2014 535.0 62 support such an increase in population. councils about the Safe Haven Enterprise The building of 190 additional houses in a Visa Scheme, introduced by the Federal Dear Reg, Thanks so much for short period of time equates to a significant Government last year. The scheme continuing to provide us with these really increase in population - way beyond the 2% encourages refugees to bring their skills to valuable rain details. It’s been really that Indigo Shire population increases each regional Australia. This is an opportunity useful seeing what’s happened over the year. for community groups to support refugees past year and then comparisons with for work or study and local governments to other years. My sincere thanks to you, What about car movements? Can our town co-ordinate this effort. and also for the appalling jokes that and roads and historic bridges support continue to come YackityYak’s way! Ed. that increase in movement? Do we have I recommend all local councils consider parking available? Do we have the ability becoming official Refugee Welcome Zones, to improve the quality and number of our following the Indigo Shire Council decision roads to support the increase? Do we have a to become a safe haven. solid water supply? Do we have safe places For more information, contact the large enough to house an additional 360 Beechworth Refugee Asylum Seeker people during fire storms? Do we enough Support group on 0499 409 042 or email Transfers to and from Albury Airport & Rail space on the telephone exchange? Can [email protected]. our school support the increased number Kind regards of children? Do we have enough doctors? How does it support the local fauna which Cathy McGowan AO MP lives and feeds here? Independent Member for Indi Dennis & Pauline Cook Fax: (02) 60271075 Growth and progress are inevitable… but August / September 2015 Yackity Yak 11 A TOWNSHIP OF ARTFULNESS Listening to renowned Yackandandah originally made in Yack that I bought from “I’m just about ready to start running watercolor watercolour painter Gordon Dickson talk, you’d Ralph, and fixed up. classes again, after taking a break of about six think there wasn’t much he hadn’t already done. “It speaks of the heritage of the town, and I’ve months,” Gordon said. A talented young artist as a student, Gordon left painted up some picture “Classes will get going again in August for school and joined the Australian Navy, studied frames to three months, and they’re open to people of all Chinese intensively during his naval tenure, abilities.” became an A-grade linguist, taught Chinese Gordon’s art will then take him overseas at at Melbourne Grammar School and lectured the end of the year, to Hong Kong where in Chinese at Melbourne University before he will conduct an annual two-month joining TAFE to manage the institution’s off- intensive watercolor course for fine shore campuses. arts students. His passion for painting has remained a “These students are preparing constant throughout his life, however applications to fine arts it was only last month that Gordon academies in New York and embarked upon his newest exploit London, so I tend to work - running his own art gallery and with them to compile their studio at 2 High Street. portfolios,” Gordon said. “This is very different to anything “It’s pretty fulfilling to I’ve done so far,” Gordon said. work with students of “I’ve had a viewing space this calibre, and a nice at home for the past six or complement to the work seven years, but having a shop I do in Yack and the front in the main street is a local region.” whole different thing, and is Gordon’s gallery and something that has happened studio at 2 High Street rather unexpectedly - it definitely will be open Wednesdays wasn’t something I was planning to Sundays from 10 am to to do! 4 pm. “When people came to visit my For further information space at home, they usually made an about Gordon’s art, and his appointment, and were coming to buy watercolour classes, visit his something specific, or inquire about website at gordondicksonartist. buying something specific. com or call Gordon on 0407 209 “I’m not used to running a shop where 826. visitors are seeing it as a tourist attraction. Lauren Salathiel “I don’t know if I’m a very good salesman, but thankfully Edie (Gordon’s wife) is really good at talking with people and taking control of that Yack & District has often been described as aspect of things!” a place that attacts artists and we are now arrange Gordon’s gallery itself is a work of art, featuring continuing to reap the rewards of this with on top of it - obviously the Yack Station, Charles Sluga and now furniture he has made himself, and an eye- that’s all about the creative side of the business.” Gordon and Edie’s gallery in the High Street. catching sculpture very apt for the site. The space not only serves as a gallery, in which Fantastic. “The sculpture out the front brings together two Gordon can show off his work, but will also Perhaps a directory of artists and elements that, I think, sum up what this gallery function as a studio and classroom. craftspeople in the locale should be the next is all about - there’s the old wooden carriage, goal... Ed.
12 Yackity Yak August / September 2015 Lost 1st World War Medal dug up from Stan Sutherland’s garden after 72 years The British War Medal of the First World War awarded to my Uncle George Hospital, Folkestone, England on 2nd September, 1917. Melbourne who died of wounds received at the Battle of Messines has been The Victory Medal and British War Medal were subsequently sent to found after laying his next of kin being my Grandfather and Grandmother of Bells Flat, for 72 years under Yackandandah. In 1942 my Grandfather passed away and as a result, my garden soil at Grandmother moved in with my father and mother at 46 High Street, Yackandandah. Yackandandah. George Melbourne In 1956 when my Grandmother was 81 years of age and I was almost 12, was one of three she gave me the Victory Medal awarded to her son George, and said to me, brothers who “Stan, I want you to look after this medal as I’m now getting on in years signed on in 1916 but there is another medal awarded to George however I lost it years ago for the First World when I moved down here from Bells Flat and I haven’t seen it since”. War. George and another brother, About three weeks after Anzac Day this year, Jan was digging in a side William, were with garden which is an area of garden shrubs and therefore not regularly turned the 37th Battalion over, if ever, since being planted out. Jan came into my office where I was AIF and the Pre-cleaning of the medals sitting and asked me about the replica medals of my three uncles from the remaining brother 1st World War and having identified one as being the same as the one she Les, was serving in had just dug up from the garden asked me “If I’d like another one?’ st the Middle East with the 1 . Light Horse Regiment. George was wounded At first I thought it was a fake, but on closer examination and reading the in the shoulder and leg and unfortunately passed away at Manor House engraving on the rim of the medal it was immediately identified as the long lost British War Medal of George Melbourne. I was absolutely elated and Children’s Book Week didn’t sleep well for 3 nights thinking about the fortunate turn of events that has turned up the medal. 22-28 August Every year during August Children’s Book Week celebrates books and Australian authors and illustrators. The Children’s Book Council of Australia conducts a Book of the Year competition in different categories: older readers, younger readers, early childhood, picture book, information book and new illustrators. Indigo Shire Libraries will present activities at all branches during this week to celebrate books and the importance of reading. At Yackandandah Library there will be a special story time session for pre-schoolers and their guardians on Thursday 27th August at 9.30 am. The local school and kindergarten children will also be invited to the library for a Book Week activity. The newly found and recleaned medals belonging to Stan Sutherland’s Uncle, George Melbourne This year’s theme is “Books light up our world”. Visit our libraries The medal was taken to a jeweller in Wodonga and they advised us on how and see our glow worm glow and to clean it from some rust on about ten percent of the medal. After three let some of our books light up your days applying a paste of baking powder and water, the medal has come up world! Contact us on 1300 365 003 almost as good as new. A new ribbon will be put on the medal and it will for more information. be mounted with its associated Victory Medal and one can imagine how pleased we are to have them united again after all these years separated.
Open 7 DAYS YACKANDANDAH Stan Sutherland 8 am - 7 pm Yack Community Garden 15a High Street, Yackandandah Ph: 02 6027 1230 Fax: 02 6027 1130 Whilst the Garden is having a bit of a break from email: [email protected] Find us on facebook maintenance, the monthly workshops continue www.foodworkshighcountry.com.au to run and so please book yourselves in for the following on your calender: Sat, 15th August - Sowing Seeds with Leanne Benson September - date/time tbc - Irrigation for your garden 17th October - Wicking Beds with Megan Vincent
Sat, 21st November - Jenny Indian on garden design for a changing climate, and to see the year off on Sat, 19th December - Nancy Sluga - Digital Photography in your Garden. REMEMBER also our “Farewell to Winter” celebrations on Saturday 15th August at 6 pm. BBQ & pizza oven will be available. Please bring everything! August / September 2015 Yackity Yak 13 Yackandandah Primary School Property Title Details Do you have a copy of your property title, old or new, with We are ready to go for another term at Yackandandah Primary School. its Volume and Folio number? Are you willing to share that I have always considered Term Three to be the time when the best quality learning with the Museum, so we can use some of the information for takes place in the year. The students have become well and truly accustomed to their research and display,? learning routines, the summer heat is a long way off and we are not weary at the end We have a researcher who can retrieve all previous titles of a long year. We all look forward to some great learning over the next ten weeks, details under the Torrens system for that property and email along with some exciting extra-curricular activities such as ski trips and the Albury you a copy at no charge. The trade-off is that the Museum Wodonga Eisteddfod. would also have a copy. We are currently hoping to have a At the end of the previous term, there was a working bee to tidy the school and build new exhibition which may feature many of those properties. some edging along Wellsford Street and the nearby paths in the school. The results Your assistance would be appreciated and would greatly of the hard work are clear to see and the paths should now be clear of debris at all enhance our Museum Collection. times. Many people contributed to this and other tasks around the school during the working bee and on following weekends – well done, everybody! A special mention Call in to the Museum (21 High St Yackandandah). phone us must go to Richard Stamp for his expertise and time with these tasks. on 02 6027 0627, or email us at museum@yackandandah. com Our Year 5/6 students visited Canberra near the end of the Term Two. There was
Students from Yack Primary School outside one of Australia’s iconic public buildings - no guessing where it is! much to see and students had the opportunity to see many of the locations and institutions that are an integral part of the cultural and political identity of our country. It was a busy time but all who attended - students, teachers and parent volunteers seemed to enjoy themselves – despite many succumbing to ‘the bug’ on their return. A further highlight at the end of Term Two was the Year Four excursion to the LASEC (Light and Sound Education Centre) experience at Beechworth Secondary College. The sessions were run by Dr. John Hunter, the Principal at Beechworth Secondary College. The students were fascinated by the sessions and were given a great introduction to the Science facilities at Beechworth Secondary. We look forward to further transition experiences. Finally, a reminder that if you are enrolling your child at school this year please consider doing this as soon as you can, regardless of your school of choice. Early enrolments are a great help to schools with regards to forward planning and budgeting. 15 HIGH STREET Michael Edwards post by 1.30pm Principal Yackandandah Primary School from fore to door –even more!
Yackandandah Primary School AUSMENTOS Australiana Books We are now taking enrolments for 2016 Gifts
If you are intending to enrol your child at Yackandandah Primary POST, BANK, PAY School in 2016 please call into the school office to collect an enrolment form or visit our website We’re here to stay!! POST at yackaps.vic.edu.au M-F 9 -5pm Sat 9-12… Market Sundays 9-2 If you would like a tour of the school or have any questions please Phone 02 6027 1201 call the school office on 02 6027 1431 to make an appointment with the Principal, Michael Edwards. PLUS size parcel pick up
14 Yackity Yak August / September 2015 Volunteering for Victorians Rockliff Family There are times when this community, already close-knit and Yackandandah SES welcoming, really stands out from the crowd, and Sunday, 12th July saw locals arrange a fund-raiser for the Rockliff family. As all will know, Jen has been hospital bound for a while, and the family has been As part of National dealing with the results of that. Volunteer Week, At the time of going to press, a sum in the region of $16,000 had been Yackandandah SES Unit raised for the Rockliff family to help them through this time and to show awarded volunteers Ann support for them whilst Jen recovers. Hunter and Jan Cashen There are clearly far too many people to mention here for their caring, with a Certificate of but you will know who you are for taking time to arrange the fundraiser Appreciation and gift. which was very well attended, for pledging funds and for generally The awards were presented caring for the Rockcliffs’ wellbeing during this difficult time. by Cr James Trenery from Yackity Yak has waived the rest of the year’s advertising costs for Alan Indigo Shire Council who as a donation towards the cause. Everyone connected with YY sends congratulated Ann and Jen their very best wishes for a full recovery. Jan for their ‘behind the Alan’s business is advertised on page 10 of this edition, so please scenes’ volunteer work. consider contacting Alan if you are looking for some landscaping or Ann has been a volunteer gardening work. with the Yackandandah SES Unit for 7 years as Catering Officer and Jan • The Narrow Gauge has volunteered for the From left to right: Jackie Ashman - Yackandandah SES Unit Controller, Ann past 5 years as Finance • Enginemen of the Victorian Railways Officer. Hunter, Jan Cashen and Cr James Trenery • Enginemen of the Victorian Railways Volume 11 Interested in Yack’s Railway Heritage? • Life on the Victorian Railways In conjunction with the progression of the ‘Yackandandah Railway Heritage Centre’ at Yack Station we are holding a book launch • The Right Way, The Wrong Way and the Railway (Great on Sunday 25th October, 2015, at 2.00 pm with the release of a Victorian Railway stories) new railway publication titled - ‘Railways of the Ovens & King’ By way of introduction of Nick’s new publication – “Railways of written by well known author Nick Anchen (a Railwyman). Nick the Ovens & King’ - ‘Nested in the shadows of the Victorian has written numerous railway publications relating to life on the Alps, the majestic Ovens and King River valleys first attracted Victorian Railways. Some titles include: prospectors during the 1850s gold rush.
• Rails to Old Walhalla When the railway age arrived in the North East, iron road were pushed through to the townships of Beechworth, • A Railway to Cudgewa Yackandandah, Bright and Whitfield. This book is a story of these fascinating railways, built to serve isolated settlements in the days of the horse and cart’. The book has 148 pages on 157 gsm matt art paper, full colour throughout. The book dimensions are 282 mm x 225 mm, landscape format with a hard cover, the recommended retail price is $59.95. The front cover indicates the quality of the book. Nick will be at Yack Station on the day to launch his new publication and will be happy to autograph his new book for those interested in purchasing his new publication. Bill Uren
August / September 2015 Yackity Yak 15 THE ARTS IN YACK ANDANDAH
Just a little update on what’s happening at Yack Station during these next few months
your books and pencils and as classes fill quickly. relax, children over 10 For more information, please call Heather welcome. on 0457 116 163 or Aaryn on 0407 910 #Knitting, Crocheting - 368 or email yackstationevents@gmail and Anything Yarn don’t forget to check out our web page
Classes available yackstation.com # Workshops on Wednesdays PS. Yack Station is now offering “space” for artists starting at $5 pw week. See Starting 22nd July. more info on our web page! Workshops in Zen art, weaving No art skill needed a scarf and appliqué. Tuesday nites 10 am-12 pm will Art Station be Zen art or simple appliqué at $5 per class a cost of $20. 9.30 am-2.30 pm 6pm-8pm - weaving a scarf 0407910368 - $40. All workshops materials are included in the prices above. There are limited spaces, so please book in early. #Learn To Draw # Art 2 Fabric Beginning with pencil shading then on to Coming in August. Why not preserve painting. Available is one-on- your child’s artworks into glorious fabric one tuition and smaller groups panels. Use the panel to make a cushion or are very welcome. a wall hanging. How about a whole quilt? The uses are endless! #Pottery Classes # Card Making Every Thursday and Sunday mornings 10.30 am -12.30 pm. During Aug-Sept. Please let us know if Beginners to advanced. you’re interested. The cost will be $30, with materials provided. #Spinners & Weavers Group #Spinning Lessons Held every second Tuesday of the month from 10am till Wheel available - $15 per hour plus 2.30pm. $2. Bring your new projects or materials. current ones. # Zen Art #Mosaic Classes Every Tuesday night from 6pm till 8pm. Starting in October. Bookings a must $5. Now doing adult colouring in. Bring
POETRY POETRY POETRY POETRY POETRY POETRY POETRY POETRY POETRY the first Sunday of each month at 2 p.m. in The Board Room at Yackandandah Community Centre, High Street, Yack Sundays 2nd August & 6th September Bring your favourites to share - poems of all styles and eras welcome. You John Dermer don’t need to be a poet - just come to enjoy and explore the magic of poetry and words. KIRBYS FLAT POTTERY For further details, please contact Kev Warburton on 6027 0626 Unique durable porcelain oven We are definitely putting on another event later on in the year, Friday & tableware as well as exhibition 30th October at Grace’s Place is booked! Watch this space for further pieces for that special gift. details... OPEN EACH WEEKEND, MOST SCHOOL HOLidays AND BY APPOINTMENT. Look out also for “Poetry in the Garden” which will also take place in FROM 10.30 am - 5.00 pm October in conjunction with one of the Garden Club’s Open Gardens! Tel: 02 6027 1416 johndermer.com.au POETRY POETRY POETRY POETRY POETRY POETRY POETRY POETRY POETRY 225 KIRBYS FLAT ROAD YACKANDANDAH 16 Yackity Yak August / September 2015 THE ARTS IN YACK ANDANDAH
Roman Rudnytsky to perform again Arts Yackandandah Calendar of Events 2015 in Yackandandah Arts Yackandandah has many exciting events in 2015 with theatre, musical, visual art and film events. Saturday, 5th September at 8 pm, with a Masterclass at 2 pm Check our website for more details: arts.yackandandah.com Roman Rudnytsky is an American concert pianist of Ukrainian background who Date What’s On Where and Tickets has performed in over 35 countries. He has brought the pleasure of classical music to audiences with performances in Saturday 5 Sept - 8pm Roman Rudnytsky - Yackandandah Public Hall venues ranging from large concert halls in Doors open 7.15pm U.S. concert pianist Presented in conjunction with the Murray Conservatorium capital cities to local halls in small towns Saturday 17 October - Flickside –My Old Lady Yackandandah Courthouse like Yackandandah. Besides his recitals, 7.15pm FREE to Arts Yackandandah members Roman has appeared as a soloist with many Friday 13 November - 8pm Melbourne Chamber Orchestra Yackandandah Public Hall orchestras around the world. Doors open 7.15pm Saturday 21 November - Flickside-Boyhood Yackandandah Court House A graduate of the famous Juilliard School 7.15pm FREE to Arts Yackandandah members in New York, Roman flickside Rudnytsky started learning piano at age Saturday 17 October 2015 four and gave his My Old Lady - comedy/drama, first recital at age France/USA, rated M 2012, 107 mins. seven. He is prize winner of several Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith important piano competitions, including An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unex- the International pected resident. Leventritt Competition Saturday 21 November 2015 in New York, the J.S. Bach International Boyhood - drama, U.S.A., 2014, 166 mins. Competition in
Washington (1960), The life of Mason, from early child- as well as being hood to his arrival at college. Golden Laureate of both Globe Award and the British Acad- emy Film Award for Best Film. 87th the “F. Busoni” and Academy Award-Oscar for Support- ing Actress the “A. Casagrande” Roman Rudnytsky performing again in Yackandandah International Piano flickside screens at the Yackandan- Competitions in Italy. dah Courthouse(opposite the pool). If you wish you can bring your fa- Roman Rudnytsky has made it a special focus of his career to come to Australia every two vourite folding chair and/or cushion/ years and is currently on his nineteenth tour since 1979. He has played more concerts here beanbag. New members can join on the night, or join online at arts. than in any other country, in every State and the Northern Territory; from the Sydney Opera yackandandah.com $20 single/$30 House to small country and outback towns. He has played recitals for local arts councils, at family. regional performing arts centres, at universities, and has been soloist with a FRESH & UNFRAMED HAVING A YEAR OFF number of orchestras. Roman last performed in Yackandandah in June 2013. This year our local art exhibition, Fresh & Unframed will not take He will perform on Saturday September 5th at 8.00 pm in the Yackandandah place. A large amount of time and effort is needed to put on the Public Hall. exhibition each year, and over the years this has been done by a very small group of artists and interested volunteers as part of the Book through arts.yackandandah.com. Arts Yackandandah calendar. RECITAL PROGRAM Unfortunately those who were on the organising committee from last year all have commitments in the lead up and over the Nocturne in C sharp minor, op. posth. - Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) Melbourne Cup weekend this year, so the decision was made to have a break for 2015. Sonata in B Flat, op. 24 no. 2 - Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) But look out 2016 - Fresh and Unframed will be back with Concerto in A minor for piano and orchestra, op. 16 - Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) perhaps a slightly different format. So all you local artists, get (transcription for solo piano by Roman Rudnytsky) your creative juices flowing for a bigger and better Fresh & Unframed exhibition next year. Reflets dans l’eau - Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Sonata for Piano, op. 26 (1949) - Samuel Barber (1910-1981) UKE-N-DANDAH Ma Mere l’Oye (“Mother Goose Suite”) - Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) (transcription Yackandandah’s own Ukulele Club is proudly by Jacques Charlot) associated with Arts Yackandandah. We meet every Monday night between 7:15 - 8:30 pm Islamey—Fantasie Orientale - Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) at the Court House. Prelude in B minor, op. 32 no. 10 - Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) New members are most welcome, and if you are a beginner, no problem as basic instruction is given. A Master Class will be held on Saturday September 5th at 2.00 pm Come on - have fun and strum! Tim Evans, 0412 106 085 Bev Lello, Arts Yackandandah
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Yackandandah Toy Library
WHY EVERY PARENT are already involved in many age, and stock a wide range of toys • Borrowing toys that are SHOULD JOIN A TOY community groups that require that is constantly evolving. We have designed to facilitate particular LIBRARY time and energy. So we try to ask baby toys, puzzles, games, musical skill development in children Want to save hundreds if not as little as possible of our members. instruments, puppets, dress-ups, e.g. threading beads to assist fine thousands of dollars? Want to save As we are a not-for-profit voluntary water and sand toys, ride on toys motor skills. run organisation, we do ask our (like balance bikes, scooter, cars), space in your home? Want to do • Having a resource to assist and your bit to live more sustainably? members to volunteer just one hour imaginative play (toy kitchen, pram, guide you in appropriate toy Want to have less stress and happy four times a year, by being rostered doll cot etc), trucks, Duplo and selection. children? Want to teach your on duty to open and close the Toy other construction sets, animal and Library each Saturday from 10 - dinosaur figurines, wooden toys, • Avoiding storage issues of children important values? Want multiple or bulky toys. to encourage play? Joining a toy 11am. We generally have a working big outdoor toys like slides, basket library will do all these things and bee once a year for maintenance ball hoop and see-saw, and much • Helping the environment by more! borrowing and sharing rather than WHAT IS A TOY LIBRARY? purchasing. A toy library is generally an incorporated organisation that is a • Teaching your member of Toy Libraries Australia. children important Some are run independently, but values. By using a others are sometimes aligned with, toy library we can and supported by a local council teach our children or shire. It is similar to a book (and ourselves) library – you borrow toys and return some amazing them, but for a small annual fee. lifelong values. Toy Libraries are managed by a Firstly, how to voluntary committee of members. consume less Committee members are elected which in turn may annually at an AGM which is open make them less to all members. Yearly membership influenced by the can differ greatly. marketing tactics of toy companies. At Yackandandah Toy Library, our They can learn the members pay only $25 per year for value of sharing a family membership, no matter and less possessive how many children you have. ownership It is extremely affordable when behaviour. They you think of all hundreds of toys can also learn you’ll have access to, but that you how to appreciate won’t have to purchase - it works Yack’s wonderful Toy Library, quietly situated in the garden at the rear of Yack’s Community Centre - a things that are pre- out at a little over $2 per month! beautiful tree lined garden, with bags of shade and entirely security fenced for small people loved or second- This annual cost covers insurance hand. I’m a firm (which is obtained through Toy believer that children are often and stocktaking, and our one and more. Libraries Australia who lobbied for overwhelmed with too many only (major) fundraiser takes place lower premiums for its members), WHY JOIN A TOY LIBRARY? toys, so using a toy library is a at Yackandandah Folk Festival administration/running costs, and great way to limit their access. each March, with a very popular There are many benefits of being the purchase of new toys. Aren’t these all great qualities to and successful dessert stall! That’s a member of a Toy Library. These At Yackandandah we are very impart on our children from the it! If we need to raise more money include: lucky to pay so little. Some bigger beginning? for something specific, like our Toy Libraries, especially those in • Having access to hundreds of current small building project, the • Meeting other young families cities, often charge anywhere from toys. committee apply for funding. and being a part of your $50 to $120 per year. We know life • Borrowing toys that are matched community. Even though Our Toy Library focuses on local with kids is busy, and living in a to your child’s individual need, Yackandandah is probably families with children 0-7 years of small town means lots of families stage of development and one of Victoria’s smallest Toy interests. Library’s with only 19 families, Gray’s Farm Friends it is a great way to get to know other parents and their children. WEED CONTROL SPECIALISTS
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18 Yackity Yak August / September 2015 Yack Toy Library Cont’d Yackandandah Town Garage Sale Saturday, 17th October 2015 • Having an opportunity to try toys before you buy, therefore ensuring successful toy purchases. A tremendously popular annual event. • Affordability! As mentioned above, a family membership at Last year had close to fifty house sites Yackandandah Toy Library costs only $25 a year, and less if you join participating along with a number of part way through (we have a payment schedule for each month - so community locations, and hundreds of treasure if you join in August 2015, for example, you will pay only $11 for hunters visiting Yackandandah. membership until February 2016). This membership allows 2 toys and Garage sale site maps, with sale item listings, 2 puzzles/or games to be borrowed per child, for a loan period of 2 may be collected on the day from 7.45 am at weeks. We also have casual membership for $10 for 5 loans per year. the Yackandandah Visitor Information Centre • Less stress! The best thing about a Toy Library is you can let your (37 High St) for a gold coin donation. child browse around and choose whatever they want! (Almost!) No To be involved as a site holder: scary price tags or tantrums, the children are free to choose without When you register (for a $15 fee), your garage sale site and sale our influences (too expensive, not value for money, beyond their age items listing will be added to the Town Garage Sale Map. This Map group, afraid they might get sick of it quickly etc). And by the time will be available to visitors on the day from 7.45am. You will also your children get bored with it you can swap it for something new. receive signage and balloons (to be used on the day), identifying you THE IMPORTANCE OF PLAY: as a participant in the Town Garage Sale. Play is how children learn and making it fun is nature’s way of ensuring You can also register to have a stall at the Yackandandah Primary children get lots and lots of practice. School grounds. Stall sizes are limited to approx 2 metres or one Even tiny babies play, practising moving their hands or sucking their toes trestle table. There are limited stall sites, so be quick!! which helps them learn to control their bodies. Registrations must be completed by Saturday October 10th. For all The games children play is directly linked to the needs of the growing enquiries please phone the Visitor Information Centre on (02) 6027 body and mind. 1988. Or visit our website: uniqueyackandandah.com.au Children’s play has been closely studied by child psychologists who have SO COME ON – CLEAR OUT THE SHED, UNPACK catalogued the pattern of development of skills and abilities from birth. THOSE DUSTY BOXES, REGISTER FOR A SITE AND HAVE FUN WHILST MAKING SOME MONEY!! I would suggest joining a Toy Library as soon as your child is six months old. It’s a great way to focus on different stages of their development without breaking the bank. A membership would also be a fantastic gift for a friend or family member who has recently had a child, as it is literally the gift that keeps on giving. Please support our Advertisers as Interested yet? If you’d like any further information, please contact me they support YOUR newspaper and I’d be happy to answer any questions, or give you a tour of our little Toy Library. ALL HANDS TO THE WHEEL Sarah McAlister President Tel: 6027 1118 LIVE LOCAL BUY LOCAL
Yackandandah Chamber of Commerce’s next full meeting will be held on Thursday, 24th September, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. at the Yack Community Centre, 29 High Street - opposite the Star Hotel. Businesses, community organisations and interested individuals welcome. For more info call Cheryl on 0435 001 747 or just come to the meeting. Treasurer required for the Yack Chamber of Commerce We are looking for someone to assist with this task – very easy, great fellow committee members! Meetings monthly at 8.30 a.m. Interested? Please email [email protected] with your contact details and experience. We look forward to hearing from someone who would like to help us and the town.
TABLE TENNIS Did you know that table tennis is played every week in Yack (excluding public & some school holidays)? A lively group of locals meet on Mondays between 10:30 am - 12:30 pm and enjoy a sociable game. Skill levels range from ‘pretty good’ to ‘absolute beginners’, so there is competition to suit all comers. Please call in at the Scouts Hall at the Sports Park.
August / September 2015 Yackity Yak 19 YACKANDANDAH GARDEN CLUB NEWS Winter in the The end result is wonderful - rich in nutrients Fermented vegetables garden and nearly good enough to eat! You can use it on Have you too many vegetables and do not know Only the very your garden, put it back into your veggie patch what to do with them other than give them to keen go out as a soil conditioner, fertilizer and a pesticide for neighbours? Why not try fermenting them? Any into the cold to your soil. vegetable can be fermented, so here is a simple potter around There are so many uses - it is up to your recipe for a basic sauerkraut. in the garden. It imagination. Experiment Recipe for fermented is more likely on finding new ways vegetables that you will see for its use. Then share garden enthusiasts your thoughts with your Chop or grate 1 kg of sitting by the fire with a good garden book neighbours and garden vegetables such as cabbage, contemplating their thoughts and writing down friends. carrot, radish, turnip, celery and onion. ideas for the garden. By now all your bulbs are Winter allows us to take time out to reflect on planted, bare rooted fruit Mix sliced and grated veggies what we have completed in the garden up until trees and deciduous trees together in a bowl and sprinkle now. If you look back to the start of the year until are in the ground ready to on some salt which pulls the now and reflect, isn’t it amazing what you have sprout and be on display for Spring. The bees are water out of the vegetables. done in the six months of the year? It is when you largely dormant, lying snugly in their hives. Squeeze the mixed vegetables until they bruise have visitors who come to stay or drop in for a and start to become wet. Taste and add more salt cuppa and you wonder around your garden, you The Garden Club News if necessary. realise that you have achieved a lot so be proud The Garden Club will be conducting our Pack the vegetables tightly into a one-litre jar, of your achievements. next meeting at the Seniors Hall on ensuring that the vegetables are submerged under Thursday 13th August, starting I have just finished a three the vegetable juice brine. Add water if necessary. at 7:30 pm. If you are interested in bay compost bin, I am putting Put a lid on the jar and store on the kitchen bench becoming a member, come along to our the last touches to the gabions so that you can release the pressure daily (The meeting and see what we get up to. which is positioned along the fermentation process builds pressure). Taste back and sides of the bays to The Club is putting on the Open Garden every few days. When the kraut is as sour as you make it a garden feature in on the 17 October. At the moment we like it, it is time for you to eat it. itself. A compost bin can be have two gardens for this open day. Put it in the fridge at this point to slow further as big or little as your imagination or space. The entry fee can be paid at the Seniors Hall on fermentation. Then sit back and enjoy the fruits the day, and there will be Devonshire teas, plant Every household should have a compost bin, of your labour. you will never have to throw away food scraps, sales, garden club photo competition winners on Garden Club contact: prunings, fallen leaves, grass clippings and display, and quilts on display at the gardens and weeds. To enrich your compost add manures Seniors Hall. If you want to get in touch with the Garden Club, from chooks, horses, or sheep. I even throw in Please keep this day free and support your local please do so by using our email address: the ash from the fire and shredded paper. garden club. E-mail: [email protected] Sea Fever And I say to myself, say I, why this, This is the life for me. Carry me back to the land (ugh) Cast off! Pebble, mud or sand (ugh) (Knit two together!) With a tiller that kicks like a living thing, Oh, to be back on the beach once more While the mainbrace sings on high, On still, dry land. On the road that runs to the harbour wall, I think whatever the sea may bring, Where the lubbering landsmen sleep, Ready, I’m ready, am I. From the road that runs by the harbour wall, I hear a strange mysterious call; I gaze at the bounding main. ‘Tis the call of the ocean deep. Oh, to be riding high, And I hear that strange mysterious call; In the teeth of a thundering gale, ‘Tis the call of the sea again (oh, not again!) I must go down to the sea, Where the decks awash, and the bowspits crack, To see the rollicking boat, As I bring her about to a starboard tack, I must go down to the sea, Where the breakers roar and the salt-spray flies, Why - here’s a gale... To see the rollicking boat, And a sailoring man can stretch his eyes, Where the breakers roar and the salt-spray flies, Why - here’s a boat! I must go down to the poop (ugh) And a sailoring man can stretch his eyes. No thanks, I won’t have any soup. Thank God - no boat! Come, let us set it afloat, I seem to be suddenly taken queer, Hey ho for the open sea If somebody else would like to steer. Flanders & Swann Where the scudding sail and the sharp winds kiss, I’m feeling - (ugh) RED GUM & MIXED FIREWOOD Dry, split and ready to burn 3 cubic metres - $420 6 cubic metres - $780 Other amounts can be quoted for Please phone: 02 6027 3559 or 0407 684 124
20 Yackity Yak August / September 2015 Cathy welcomed the State Mobile Black Spot Programme the KTC Report launched at 2pm. will open in August 2015. Government’s decision to include Round 2 Cathy and 4 inspiring guests will Local groups and councils are community consultation in the Nominations are open for Round outline their Visions for Indi. encouraged to apply. For more Regional Network Development 2 of the Mobile Black Spot Register at: docs.google.com/forms/ information, visit the Green Army Plan process. Programme (MBSP). Indi was the d/1DGlCzBdnMreMdmypnFR_ website - environment.gov.au/land/ This follows on from a commitment big winner from the first round of PNANV8O-dlaFxRi2l96zhvs/ green-army/projects given during a meeting with the MBSP with 30 base stations to viewform Save the Date Member for Murray, Dr Sharman be built, covering 199 black spots. Register Now - Spirit of ANZAC Rural Australians for Refugees, Stone, Cathy and Public Transport Plenty of work still needs to be done Centenary Experience Victoria (PTV) CEO Mark Wild to address black spots not covered National Human Rights in February. Cathy said it’s really in the first round. Community In a major coup for the North East, Commissioner Gillian Triggs – important that the community members are encouraged to Wodonga has been chosen as the Friday, August 7 – 7pm at the attend these workshops and nominate black spots by emailing opening venue of the Spirit of Mansfield Uniting Church Hall. provide solutions-focused feedback mobilecoverage@communications. ANZAC Centenary Experience She will be speaking on the to give PTV a clear picture of gov.au. (SACE). Registrations of interest Forgotten Children Report as a guest are vital, as places are what is needed. Please pass the of the Mansfield branch of Rural Kitchen Table limited. ‘word’ around your networks and Conversations Australians for Refugees. encourage people to attend. – Report SACE will open on Workshops will be happening as Launch locked Friday, September And for my swan song, and no follows: in for August 2! 4 and run until offence meant, Cathy...! September 10 at the • Benalla: Monday 10 August, Over the past Wodonga Sports and Some quotations on politics: 5-7pm 3 months, Leisure Centre. Please Politics is the art of preventing people hundreds of visit their website from becoming involved in affairs • Wangaratta: Tuesday 11 people across which concern them. - spiritofanzac.gov. August, 5-7pm Indi have Paul Valery (French poet & aphorist OUR MEMBER FOR au - to register your 1871-1945 Wodonga: Wednesday 12 been having interest. • INDI - What’s been Politics is the gentle art of getting votes August, 6-8pm kitchen table conversations happening around FUNDING from the poor and campaign funds from Plan, survey, workshop and OPPORTUNITIES: the rich by promising to protect each talking about the traps from the other. feedback information can be found the future of our Green Army in Indi Oscar Ameringer (German born at the PTV website: getinvolved. communities. Americal socialist 1870-1943) ptv.vic.gov.au/regional-network- The formal report will be launched Green Army projects are helping the environment in Indi. Too bad that all the people who know development-plan/forum_topics/ on August 2 at the Wangaratta how to run this country are busy driving hume-what-do-you-think. Feedback Performing Arts Centre. Six Green Army projects have been taxis and cutting hair. closes on September 11, 2015. Registrations start at 1.30pm, with funded in Indi. Round four funding George Burns (American comedian & writer 1896-1996)
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August / September 2015 Yackity Yak 21 CHANNELLING THE JOY by George Monbiot In defending the natural world, possibly from embarrassment or Pope Francis’s opponents is the a man with whom I disagree we should be honest about our fear, a failure of emotional honesty. evangelical Cornwall Alliance for profoundly on matters such as motivations – it’s love that drives I have asked meetings of green- the Stewardship of Creation, which equal marriage and contraceptives, us, not money. minded people to raise their hands has written to him arguing that we reminds us that the living world Who wants to see the living world if they became defenders of nature have a holy duty to keep burning provides not only material goods destroyed? Who wants an end to because they were worried about the fossil fuel, as “the heavens declare and tangible services, but is also birdsong, bees and coral reefs, the state of their bank accounts. Never the glory of God; and the firmament essential to other aspects of our falcon’s stoop, the salmon’s leap? has a hand appeared. Yet I see the proclaims his handiwork”. It also well-being. And you don’t have to Who wants to see the soil stripped same people base their appeal to insists that exercising the dominion believe in God to endorse that view. from the land, the sea rimed with others on the argument that they will granted to humankind in Genesis In his beautiful book “The Moth rubbish? lose money if we don’t protect the means tilling “the whole Earth”, Snowstorm”, Michael McCarthy transforming it “from wilderness No one. And yet it happens. Seven natural world. suggests that a capacity to love to garden and ultimately to garden the natural world, rather than billion of us allow fossil fuel Such claims are factual, but they city”. companies to push shut the narrow are also dishonest: we pretend that merely to exist within it, might be atmospheric door through which this is what animates us, when in There are similar tendencies within a uniquely human trait. When we humanity stepped. We permit most cases it does not. The reality the Vatican. Cardinal George are close to nature, we sometimes industrial farming to tear away the is that we care because we love. Pell, its head of finance, currently find ourselves, as Christians put it, soil, banish trees from the hills, Nature appealed to our hearts, when immersed in a scandal involving surprised by joy: “a happiness with engineer another silent spring. We we were children, long before it paedophile priests in Australia, an overtone of something more, let the owners of grouse moors, 1% appealed to our heads, let alone our is a prominent climate change which we might term an elevated or, of the 1%, shoot and poison hen pockets. Yet we seem to believe we denier. His lecture to the Global indeed, a spiritual quality.” harriers, peregrines and eagles. We can persuade people to change their Warming Policy Foundation was He believes we are wired to develop the usual catalogue of zombie watch mutely as a small fleet of lives through the cold, mechanical a rich emotional relationship with myths (discredited claims that keep monster fishing ships trashes the power of reason, supported by nature. A large body of research oceans. statistics. resurfacing), nonsequiturs and suggests that contact with the living outright garbage, championing, world remains essential to our Why are the defenders of the living I see the encyclical by Pope for example, the groundless claim world so ineffective? It is partly, of Francis as a potential turning point. psychological and physiological that undersea volcanoes could be well-being. A paper published course, that everyone is complicit; He will argue that not only the responsible for global warming. we have all been swept off our feet physical survival of the poor, but recently, for example, claims There are plenty of senior Catholics that green spaces around city by the tide of hyper-consumption, also our spiritual welfare depends seeking to undermine the Pope’s our natural greed excited, corporate on the protection of the natural schools improve children’s mental defence of the living world; which performance. propaganda chiming with a will to world; and in both respects he is could explain why his encyclical believe that there is no cost. But right. I don’t mean to suggest that was leaked. perhaps environmentalism is also a belief in God is the answer to What I mean is that Pope Francis, Continued on page 23... afflicted by a deeper failure: arising our environmental crisis. Among Get ready NOW for Spring!
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22 Yackity Yak August / September 2015 Continued from page 22 This does not mean that all Yackandandah Community Centre people love nature; what it means, McCarthy proposes, is that there’s The Community Centre has been busy reviewing its 2014-16 Strategic Plan and a spirited discussion took a universal propensity to love it, place recently about its priorities for the next 18 months, so we are hoping to put on some interesting which may be drowned out by community discussions on current topical issues. We will be looking for some funding to help us do this, but the noise that assails our minds. hope to be in a position to advertise these within the next few months. As I’ve found while volunteering In the meantime, Junior Drama is about to take off again for Term 3. Mega thanks to Brendan Hogan who with the outdoor education charity takes these classes. We are lucky to have such talented people in our midst and who are prepared to put in Wide Horizons, this love can be their own time and expertise into this training. Many drama groups are feeling the pinch with membership provoked almost immediately, numbers, and it’s wonderful to have some up and coming Thespians in our midst. even among children who have never visited the countryside Other classes happening recently have included Responsible Serving of Alcohol, Women’s Bicycle before. Nature, McCarthy argues, Maintenance, and a fully booked mixed Bike Maintenance course has just started. Other bike maintenance remains our home, “the true classes will follow, including Encore Women and a Youth’s class. Music lessons with Vanessa Delaine are also haven for our psyches”, and available on Tuesday afternoon/early evening. Interested in learning a new instrument - guitar or keyboard, retains an astonishing capacity voice training or honing your existing musical talents? Then come and enjoy Vanessa’s wonderful tuition. to bring peace to troubled minds. The Op Shop continues to go from strength to strength and it’s great to recycle those items that might Acknowledging our love for the otherwise not find a use. Please feel free to drop these items off by the front door of the Community Centre living world does something if we are closed. We are not always able to sell everything we are donated, but do our absolute best and can that a library full of papers on always send items to Aware Industries if we are not able to sell it in Yack. We were recently able to provide sustainable development and warm clothes and flannelette bed linen for three Congolese families resettling in Wodonga. ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well It’s been very exciting to see the Toy Library which is situated in our lovely shady back garden start its as the intellect. It inspires belief; improvement works. Make sure you take time to come and visit the Library when it’s open on Saturday and this is essential to the lasting mornings and to see the wonderful toys and service they can provide. Read their article on pages 18 & 19 to success of any movement. see exactly what they can provide. Is this a version of the religious The office at the Community Centre is open on Tuesdays & Wednesdays from 9am to 5pm and on Thursdays conviction from which Pope from 9 am to 4 pm. The Op Shop is generally open from 10 am to 4 pm from Mondays to Fridays. Please call Francis speaks? Or could his 6027 1743 and leave a message if we are not there. religion be a version of a much Remember to like the Op Shop on Facebook - “Yack Community Op Shop - COS”. We are also starting a deeper and older love? Could fortnightly or so Mailchimp newsletter from the Community Centre. Anyone who is currently a a belief in God be a way of member will of course, receive a copy, but please let us know if you would like to go on this explaining and channelling the mailing list. Please email [email protected]. joy, the burst of love that nature We are also shortly to get a “YAK” award from Totally Renewable Yackandandah for the sometimes provokes in us? Conversely, could the hyper- retro fitting work on the building that was completed in 2014 - very gratifying! consumption that both religious and secular Who’s doing what around the traps? Has environmentalists your family been busy? lament be a response to ecological What have YOU been up to? Please let boredom: the void us know - don’t be shy.. that a loss of contact Yack readers are loving reading about with the natural what is happening, who is doing what world leaves in our and now is your chance to let us know. psyches? Send your photos and copy in NOW... Of course, this doesn’t answer the whole problem. If the acknowledgement of love becomes Are you looking for Quality Child Care? the means by Community Early-years Childcare-Yackandandah is committed to providing high quality Early Childcare Education and Care to the which we inspire Yackandandah Community and surrounding districts. environmentalism in others, how do Our Community Early Years Childcare-Yackandandah is a unique venue as it offers a Kindergarten Program with a Long Day Care setting. Our we translate it into service is a proud member of the Yackandandah community. Over the political change? years we have continued to show our support to the local community But I believe it’s by offering a well-recognised, dedicated and highly professional team of Educators delivering outstanding Children’s Education and Care Service. a better grounding for action than Places are currently available in all age groups and the Kindergarten pretending that what Program. All are welcome to visit and speak to Melissa, our Kindergarten Teacher who holds a Bachelor of Education qualification. really matters to us is the state of the Long Day Care Operating Monday to Friday economy. 7.30 am– 6.00 pm Funded Kindergarten Program By being honest Tuesdays and Wednesdays about our motivation 9.00 am – 4.30 pm we can inspire in Yackandandah Contact Details: 62 Twist Creek Road, Yackandandah others the passions (02) 6027 0801 that inspired us. Email: [email protected] C.C.B./C.C.R. Approved Service Provider monbiot.com Dedicated Kindergarten Room and Kindergarten Fee Subsidy (KFS) available to Eligible Card Holders. August / September 2015 Yackity Yak 23 A NEW LOOK FOR MOTEL ACCOMMODATION Armed with years of experience running Yackandandah Motor Inn to transform the people to take if they wanted them.” accommodation facilities, Joanne and face of motel accommodation in the town. Joanne said she and Murray were in the Murray Tabe now find themselves at the “We have met Robert and Chris, who process of getting a new website, featuring helm of Townshiphill Motel - soon to be are the new owners of Yackandandah the motel’s new name, up and running, renamed Top of the Town Motor Inn. Motor Inn, and really look forward and organising free wifi for guests to the The couple, who have spent the past five to resourcing together and making a motel. years in Bendigo, have run a caravan positive contribution to the Yackandandah “Even though we’ve done this sort of thing before, it’s very exciting for us to be here in Yackandandah, because we feel like we’ve found our home,” she said. “Our daughter lives nearby in Bethanga, so we’re glad to be close to her, and just love the town. “We really feel Yack’s got it all - we’re so close to the snow, there are great cycling trails, it’s a lovely spot for bird lovers and nature fanatics, and there are beautiful tourist drives around here, so we hope we can help people discover those.” For more information about Townshiphill Motel - soon to be called Top of the Town Motor Inn – visit yackandandahtownship. com, visit 3729 Myrtleford Road, Yackandandah, or phone Joanne and Murray on (02) 6027 1467. Lauren Salathiel Joanne and Murray Tabe took over management of theTownshiphill Motel, soon to be called the Top of the Town Motor Inn, six weeks ago park in Swan Hill and cabin parks in the community,” Joanne said. Whitsundays, took on ownership of the “Since we took over six weeks ago, we’ve It is very exciting to have these two motel in June. done a lot of work plastering old brick new businesses in town being under Joanne said she looked forward to walls, installing new cabinets and meeting new management. working with the new owners of people around the town. Yackity Yak wishes all the owners of these two motels all the very best “We were pleased when we upgraded our with their new businesses, as they manchester to be able to donate some of find their collective feet. the existing manchester to the Community How very encouraging to see some Op Shop, and leave plants out the front for collaboration happening! Ed.
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24 Yackity Yak August / September 2015 IN YACKANDANDAH - WELCOME TO YOU ALL! Yackandandah Motor Inn has enjoyed a websites. instead of drifting away to other nearby facelift over recent weeks, as new owners “We’ve had a lot of fun adding a bit of towns for their tourism, shopping and Robert Devenish and Chris Read have colour to the rooms and updating the accommodation,” he said. taken over management of the business. furnishings a bit,” Robert said. “We’ve received tremendous support Hailing from “just down the road”, on a “With our new decor we wanted to project from other businesses and people in the farm at Leneva, main street, and Robert and look forward to Chris took the working together with helm of the other local business Motor Inn at the people.” beginning of This support July. culminated in an open Robert said he day at the motor inn and Chris were on Saturday, July no strangers to 18, with more than the hospitality 30 people from the industry, community visiting however to view the new-look running an rooms and chat with accommodation the new owners. business would “We were very be a new pleased with the experience. turnout at the open “We’ve worked day, and are really in the clubs keen for people industry, with to know that we TAB facilities, are catering for all for the past 30 markets – from years or so,” Chris Read (left) and Robert Devenish have spruced up the rooms of the Yackandandah Motor Inn, after taking over business people Robert said. management of the business in early July travelling through, to “Making the tourists and people transition from our farm, where we’ve visiting family members in the region,” a warm and welcoming feeling when Robert said. had a small Angus herd, to working in guests inspect the rooms. accommodation will be a big lifestyle “We have eight rooms to suit all types change for us, but it’s one we’re excited “We also have a good working of visitors and family sizes, as well as a about.” relationship with Joanne and Murray, the room with disabled access and facilities.” new owners at the Townshiphill Motel.” Visitors to the Motor Inn will have already Keep an eye out for the motor inn’s new noticed a change, with Robert and Chris Robert said he hoped to offer a fresh website at yackmotorinn.com.au, or for working hard to redecorate the rooms and approach to motel accommodation in more information visit Robert and Chris at update their website and booking system Yackandandah. 18 High Street or phone 02 6027 1155. to enable potential guests can access “We want people to stay local, visit and information and book online via a host of spend at the other businesses in town, Lauren Salathiel
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August / September 2015 Yackity Yak 25 Yackandandah Fishing Club Public Hall & Wood Auction for Rockliff Family Court House The club supplied a 3 cubic metre Bookings load of wood to the fund raising day at the Star Hotel on Sunday 12 July. These Yack venues now have It sold for $600. their own website at: Thanks to everyone who helped publichall.yackandandah.com gather the wood, and helped in Information about both the any other way. Thanks to Bernie Public Hall and the Court House Hynes for supplying the tree, his big can be found here. tractor, log splitter etc. Well done Each venue has a calendar to all! Thanks to all other members showing details of existing who supported the day at the Star Hotel, Yack. tentative and confirmed bookings. Also, each calendar has a booking window where a Free Electric BBQ at Allans Flat request can be made for booking Water Hole a specified period of time on a particular date. We had our almost final working Members of the Yack Fishing Club installing the new BBQ at bee on Sunday 4 July to brick in and the Allans Flat water hole The booking will be then power up the BBQ. We have also processed and confirmed by of Wednesday 23 September, installed an electric water pump to friends for the club effort. It is a the booking officer who is Ali have water at the BBQ. This was a great facility for our area, and will during next School holidays. Pockley, located in the YCC last minute decision as Rusty was be utilised by Indigo Shire residents 3. Others still to be planned. office. Tel: 6027 1743. given such a good deal by Flower far and wide, and also Albury/ Ali can also be contacted Macklan. Rusty completed the Wodonga people. The list goes on... We welcome new members. Please by email at: publichall@ job on Friday 10 July by putting contact us for a warm welcome! Upcoming events yackandandah.com a stainless steel top on the work Club contact details: These include:- Bookings for the Hall are bench area Peter Russell, President - 6027 1832 becoming more and more beside the 1. A cray fishing trip at Nelmac’s or [email protected] BBQ, and farm down Howlong way popular and we have been finalising probably in August. Peter Chandler, Treasurer -6027 1777 pleased to see local people the water or [email protected] chosing the Public Hall as their 2. Kids fishing day, with BBQ pump wedding reception venue. provided, at Allan Flat Tight lines. settings. Waterhole on the probable date The Silver Fox But make sure you book well in Thanks to all our members and advance as there is increasing use of the Hall happening. RAISE FUNDS FOR YOUR CLUB In three easy steps: 1. Visit a Hume branch to set up your club’s Community Rewards Program 2. Start promoting this program within your club 3. Enjoy the rewards your club will earn when referring a friend to switch to Hume!
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26 Yackity Yak August / September 2015 Yack Football and Netball Club Bike I wrote earlier in the year about the the community we want to live welcome Cathy McGowan MP, to Maintenance values we stand for and the way in. That was about 140 pairs of the dinner, held at Grace’s Place. we’d like our club to be seen in our laces, some of which ended up While talking about volunteers in The second of 5 bike maintenance community. as ribbons! It’s a long time since Yackandandah sometimes seems sessions has just started again in Yack, to be generally held at the Yes, we do our bit to help members footballers wore black boots like bringing coal to Newcastle, and running shoes were white Cathy’s insights were very Yack Men’s Shed. The first night of our club in times of need, covered some of the basics of bike whether here in canvas, so this made for well-received. a very colourful way of setup such as sizing and initial Yackandandah Earlier in the year I invited suspension setup including setting or much further spreading a very serious everyone who reads Yackity Yak message. ‘sag’. Future sessions will look at afield in the to come down to Butson Park on basic gear adjustment, effective case of some Lace Up was a club a home game day, to support what puncture repairs, tyre pressures, families which initiative, And on 18 is after all YOUR club. Right now changing brake pads and anything have relocated. July we joined teams in we’re in the finals series, so ask else that the participants come up We know this the Tallangatta District, about and see who’s playing. A with. is the way Upper Murray and Ovens day at Sandy Creek for the TDFL of the great and Murray Leagues, and TDNA finals is a real highlight This course is a mixed one with 4 community Lace Up Against along with Victoria in the local sporting calendar! women and 2 men. After this there to which we Social Violence Police, in a dedicated will be a teen’s courses and another And with an eye on our calendar, all women course - very likely belong. round to highlight White join us at the clubrooms on August Ribbon, a national campaign to during the day for those mums with A couple of times during July, 8 for our family night following children at school. however, we’ve picked up on other stop violence against women. the Chiltern game, and the vote causes because they sit well with Once again, we asked players in all count on August 22 after the final So if you haven’t already made our values. I refer to Lace Up grades of footy and netball to wear round. contact, please register your interest with either Phil (philedwardes@ Against Social Violence, and the a white armband while playing, `You’ll need to book a table for our White Ribbon campaign against to show we know that domestic hotmail.com) or Ali at YCC Presentation Ball on September 26, ([email protected]). domestic violence. violence has no place in the a night not to be missed. Lace Up is a strategy within the community we want to live in. For those of you who are Step Back Think campaign against Another highlight of the winter Brendan Johnson Facebook users the Yackandandah the coward’s punch. We asked was the Roobaggers dinner, an President Cycling page contains up to date players in all grades of footy and opportunity to thank a group information on what’s happening netball to wear orange laces on of supporters who make an Great to see our sporting clubs with these courses and also 4 July, to show we know that the invaluable contribution to our club. get behind these strategies to for cycling in general in the coward’s punch has no place in This year we were delighted to make our community a safer Yackandandah area. place. Ed. Phil Edwardes Yackandandah Ladies Golf
Since the last edition of Yackity Yak, the in late June and then had a pleasant ladies have been busy with several golf luncheon at the Mitta Pub. The photo events. shows some of the Yackandandah golf Ladies Club Championships ladies having lunch at the Mitta Pub. The ladies were enjoying a social day A Grade - Robyn Davies after playing 9 holes of golf on the B Grade - Pam Crosthwaite beautiful Mitta course. C Grade - Glenda Stacey Ladies 9 hole and 18 hole golf continues Ladies North East District each Wednesday at Yackandandah – 9 Championships am for a 9.30 am start for 18 holes. Pam Crosthwaite, Frances Boehm, 10 am for 10.30 am start for 9 holes. Robyn Davies and Angela Bishop New participants are very welcome represented the Yackandandah Club at whether beginners or experienced this three day event in Yarrawonga. From left to right: Frances Glass, Marilyn McKenzie-McHarg, Helen golfers. Please call either President Kelley(concealed), Marian Barnard, Jeanine Hayes-Scott, Anne Corr, Ladies 9 hole event and luncheon at Marian - 02 6027 1324 or Captain Joyce Trebilcock and Marilyn Hughes. Missing from the picture are Frances - 02 6027 1284 for further Mitta Glenda Stacey and Jenny Pretty also Helen Kelley details. Ten of our ladies played 9 holes at Mitta Looking for a Venue?? Youth Award Cont’d
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For the past twelve years Yfuel, our community owned service station, has been an independent supplier of quality fuel to our shareholders, keep a look out for talented and community, tourists and the wider region of beautiful North East Victoria. Over the past 5 – 6 years we have operated with a fair fuel pricing community-minded young people policy, which is simply a set margin put on the Terminal Gate Price (TGP) plus transport costs. This margin is worked out to cover all the operational costs of selling fuel. We do not get involved with local price wars or price gouging, for example when demand caused by holiday who deserved recognition. periods provides an opportunity to increase prices. The margin set ensures the continued viability of the yFuel business, the primary purpose of which is to supply fuel to the local community. “YCDCo sponsors two awards each Unfortunately over the last several months we have really struggled with customer migration here at Yfuel due to local price wars with fuel in year, a Junior Community Youth Albury/ Wodonga selling under the TGP price. So here are a few things to think about: Award, worth $250, for primary At Yfuel we have a fair price policy which means that you will not see huge price fluctuations due to competition, price gouging and the school aged children, and a Senior mythical fuel price cycle. For example some fuel outlets have just gone up over 10 cents per litre over night? Community Youth Award, worth At Yfuel we do not get involved in opportunistic fuel price gouging. This means, over the course of the year Yfuel is often cheaper on fuel than the major centres! $400, for young people aged under At Yfuel we only sell quality fuel, which has been provided by Shell for the past 12 years, but we remain independent and can change 21 as of January 26, 2016,” Kevin this at our discretion. said. At Yfuel we pride ourselves on exemplary customer and driveway service, which is something you won’t generally find at a multi- national. “For young people to be eligible, At Yfuel we are community owned and our profits stay right here in Yackandandah. Half our profits go into community projects, through our community contribution scheme and half go to shareholders. they need to reside within a 15km At Yfuel we are a significant employer of local people and in particular we pride ourselves on offering casual employment to our youth radius of Yackandandah, and in the community. This has seen us offer employment to upwards of around 50 young people over the past twelve years, which not only have initiated or contributed to gives them a leg up financially, but sets them in good stead for further employment. local community wellbeing that At Yfuel the sale of fuel equates to about 80% of our business, so when people start to shop elsewhere for cheaper fuel, we really start to suffer and just imagine what our town would be like without a service station. Imagine what it would cost to drive to town to fill up is environmentally, socially or your mower fuel, or take your kids to work and go in and pick them up again, or just the inconvenience of not having enough fuel to culturally focused. get back to town! Imagine what the flow on effect would be for the township. Shop Local!! Please remember. At Yfuel we are all about the community and economic sustainability of our beautiful town, so it always comes “It’s a great way for us to recognize back to the old saying of either “use it or lose it”. and celebrate the considerable It is worth reminding ourselves that although fuel is often a ‘begrudged purchase’, supporting yFuel adds real value to your purchase. talents and commitment of young From time to time when we are a few cents dearer then the difference is usually less than a cup of coffee per tank, but you are supporting local employment and supporting local interest groups and organisations. people in our midst, so I would encourage locals to start thinking Please shop local and support our community owned service station and our other local traders. about the nominations.” Nominations will close on Friday, **News Flash- Alpine Diesel Now at Yfuel Check out our great Facebook page facebook.com/yfarmyfuel We now accept Motor Pass & Motor Charge And our Website http://www.yfuelyfarm.com December 4, and a judging panel, consisting of YCDCo Continued on Page 27 YCDCo - Non-Daylight Saving Mon-Friday: 7 am to 6 pm Trading Hours: Saturday: 8 am to 5 pm OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK Sunday: 8.30 am to 5 pm
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