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INSIDE Your Federal Election guide — Pages 4–6 Health and safety — Pages 12–13 Anzacs remembered After an amazing 43 years as scorer for Warrandyte Cricket Club’s 1st XI, club stalwart Ann Pascoe is laying down her coloured — Pages 14–16 pens and stepping away from the scorer’s chair. Ann’s meticulous — and colourful — scorekeeping has won her praise from Reconciliation Week across the cricketing world. She will be sorely missed by the generations of Bloods whose achievements she recorded. — Page 22 Read the full story about Ann’s incredible innings on Page 26. PHOTO: STEPHEN GODDARD

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OVER THE HILLS By JOCK MACNEISH

TheOVER more THE things HILLS change... By JOCK MACNEISH MAY The Diary’s researchers have mass desertion to New South Wales, the with a vein of quartz running through it. been trawling the internet and Mayor, Ald. William Nicholson, acted fast. In great excitement they began digging and Hats,Mittens He formed a Gold Discovery Committee soon bottomed. have come across a bit of a find. of leading citizens, offering £200 reward Scraping earth into a dish they panned off andSocks Tucked away on the Warrandyte for gold discovered within 100 miles of — one can imagine with what frantic care the capital. — and revealed specks of gold. 232 Yarra St Cricket Club’s website is the copy Warrandyte of a book tracing the history of Almost immediately after the Committee’s The first gold discovered in Victoria! announcement, two parties set out to How he “struck it rich”, is best told in Louis 0411 528 142 the Warrandyte Cricket Club and search the area around the Upper Yarra and Michel’s own words: therefore the township. Plenty Ranges. “In company with Mr Habberlin, I left One party, led by Henry Frencham, a my hotel about 4am, in order to elude HOURS The Warrandyte Story reporter from the Melbourne Times, caused any prospectors who had inclination to Fri, Sat, Sun: 11am-5.30pm 1855–1955 excitement when the Argus, on June 13, follow. Compiled by LOUIS CRANFIELD, 1851, with more enthusiasm than fact, We made direct to the Ranges by way of Written & Illustrated announced gold in the Plenty Ranges. Barkers Road (now Whitehorse Road or by HARRY HUDSON Unfortunately, the assays were negative. Maroondah Highway). In fairness to Frencham, however, the After trying the creeks and gullies for The Warrandyte Story begins on May 26, well-known historian, Isaac Selby, in his several days, our stock of supplies was 1851, with an almost obscure paragraph in “Pioneers Memorial History of Melbourne”, running low. 42K Media the Melbourne Daily News. makes the point that his “find” was made There being no chance of replenishing Gold had been discovered at Bathurst, New on the exact spot later occupied by the them, we were forced to face about for Community Media Solutions South Wales. Caledonian Mine at Warrandyte. town. Within a week, Melbourne’s whole future The second party, led by Louis Michel, Not knowing exactly our position, we Contact James & Sandi was threatened as people left their jobs and proprietor of the Rainbow Hotel, Swanston determined to follow some creek down to deserted the city in a mass. Street, Melbourne, was more fortunate. the Yarra, and in doing so, a particular 0458 218 380 or 0429 121 969 The gold rush was on. With a companion, William Habberlin, bend, under a steep bank, led me to think Edward Hargreaves, later recognised as Michel made camp at a spot where the that the creek had not always run on its No project too big or too small. Great rates for Warrandytians. the first discoverer of gold in Australia, main road now crosses Anderson’s Creek, present course. had unearthed a few specks at Bathurst on on June 29, 1851. If gold were to be found it seemed a likely February 12 of that year. Next morning, working their way a short place. [email protected] With Melbourne almost paralysed by the distance up creek, they saw rock formation To be continued...

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MAY 2019 Warrandyte Diary 3 Lions Park development project ready to roll By DAVID HOGG deliver places and spaces for the whole Artist’s impression courtesy Manningham Council WITH THE BRIDGE Upgrade now community to enjoy. almost complete, attention turns to the “Lions Park works will be undertaken Lions Park, previously the Lions Tennis in a staged implementation over Courts and more recently the work site 2019/20 and 2020/21 and the for the bridgeworks. immediate focus will be on updates The masterplan for the Lions Park to the areas surrounding the bridge, project was approved by Manningham access and carpark improvements. Council in September last year, and “Further community consultation covered in our October issue. will be undertaken around the design Key features include additional of the Lions Park play space and area picnic facilities, seating, barbeques, and nearby picnic facilities.” outdoor fitness equipment, drinking Council has allocated a total of fountains, signage, public art displays $450,000 to the project in this and the and landscaping work, which includes next financial year. an improved path layout and river access. There is an excellent animated Angelo Kourambas, Director video of the planned works at: City Planning and Community at youtu.be/65qxVvyyAmk Manningham Council, told the Diary: For more information, see “The site of the Lions Tennis Court will manningham.vic.gov.au/ be updated as a part of the broader manningham-approves-lions-park- Lions Park Masterplan, which will masterplan Letters to the Diary including emails must include the writer’s full name, address Warrandyte Bridge: your say and phone number, even if not intended for publication. Content may be edited for reasons of style, length or legality. [email protected] Remembering our veterans Is it “finished”? Dear Diary, the end of which sprung dangerously elderly and the disabled are all faced Two veterans from the Second World War into space. with a steep climb made extra difficult by led the march along Yarra Street on Anzac More difficult steps leading to a steep and dangerous path work. How much did it cost? Day this year. rutted track along which it was impossible Last year I was already worried about One used a walking frame; the other was to push a wheelchair. access to the service area for this year’s By DAVID HOGG in a wheelchair. My 96-year-old father was in that Anzac Day and, not knowing how heritage AS THE QUEEN of the Shire was wheelchair. overlay, OHS, the roles of Warrandyte Warrandyte’s citizens greeted them as the RSL, Manningham Council and the State returned to her rightful place, State heroes they are. He had to leave it and finally reach the Government politicians have come government could affect improvements, They were waved at, cheered and clapped. service area on the arms of strong and I approached State MP, Ryan Smith as a out to applaud the completion of the willing relations. Warrandyte Bridge. The march ended at the bridge for the turn first call. Member for Yan Yean Danielle into — and up to — the place where the When the National Anthem had been He readily took up the problem and Green has officially announced the service was to be held. sung and all the photographs taken, he began talks and a visit with the RSL and had to leave the area the same way — completion of the project to widen And there began the problem for those the Council. the bridge to three lanes and build a walking with difficulty on the arms of the leading men. stalwart younger generation. Then came the State election and despite new shared path for pedestrians and The climb up the steps was steep and long. two emails to Mr Smith since then I have cyclists across the Yarra River. Access difficulties are not confined to heard nothing. “We’ve worked hard to make this And the steps were not deeply spaced nor veterans in their nineties. wide enough for a walking frame. And nothing was done to make this year’s bridge safer while preserving the My generation of Vietnam “boys” are end of march access easier and safer. unique character of the bridge and this Certainly out of the question for a only a few years behind and they too will area of Warrandyte,” said Ms Green. wheelchair. find, if they already have not done so, that Please, is there nothing that can be done She also commended the people of the easy part of the march ends at the to improve the situation before Anzac Alternatively, the second entrance was a Day 2020? Warrandyte for their patience during little further along. entrance to the RSL. the roadworks. Gaynor Bishop, A make-piece railing, bound with wire, Babes in prams and pushers, the civilian “We appreciate all of the feedback we Warrandyte received from locals who helped shape the look and feel of this bridge and showed great patience while we made Cost of the Upgrade these important safety improvements,” she said. The Andrews Labor Government Member for Eastern Metropolitan committed $5.1 million funding for Region, Sonja Terpstra said: “I am the project in March 2016. really pleased to see the results of this In May 2017, we ascertained the project to make the bridge crossing contract had been awarded to VEC safer and easier for all local road users.” Civil Engineering Pty Ltd for $4.265M. So with the politicians marking the In November 2017, following project as complete, the Diary thought representations in State Parliament it was time to ask the authorities by local member for Warrandyte, concerned with the Bridge Upgrade Ryan Smith, a further $200,000 had project whether they regarded it as been secured for the slip-lane on the complete, and what the total cost was. south side. Nillumbik suggested that we ask Following extensive delays to VicRoads whether they had any further the project we asked VicRoads in landscaping works to be done on the November 2018 what the final cost north side. of the project would be, in view of Manningham told us that “Council rumours circulating that the cost had is working with VicRoads to plan the blown out way beyond the original delivery of the surrounding landscape funding commitments. works” in particular with reference At that time, they responded to the Lions Park project, so we take “The total cost of the project will be it that there is still more site clearing provided once complete”. and landscaping work to be done on The Diary has continued to ask the south side by VicRoads. VicRoads over the past month what We asked VicRoads whether they the final cost will be, and they have considered the project to be complete, failed to respond to our questions. however they had not responded by We will publish an update if we learn the time we went to press. anything further.

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A Shorten Labor Government will and in response, from July next year, on the Age Pension or who hold a The concerns of this community ensure Australian small businesses Labor will put more money back in Commonwealth Seniors Health Card are diverse, including cost of living and households get a fair go by working parents’ pockets for 887,000 allocated $1,000 of free dental care pressures such as energy bills and establishing NBN service standards Australian families — slashing up every two years. childcare costs, action on climate and penalties for underperformance to $2,100 per child off their annual I have heard from Warrandyte change, traffic and transport, — increasing accountability and childcare bill. residents through my street stalls, increased funding for schools and better protecting consumers against Every single family in Australia door knocking and visits to local better support of our local hospitals. service downtime. earning up to $174,000 will get markets that they want a local MP Secure work is also a concern of Warrandyte wants a local MP who cheaper child care with Labor. who is in touch with their needs and many. believes in the science of climate Our local primary schools have been isn’t caught up in ideological battles It is important to have a local change. underfunded by the Abbott-Turnbull- that don’t help put food on the table member of parliament who is engaged Our local community and economy Morrison Government and Labor or pay their bills. with the community, who lives in the are dependent on action to combat will increase funding to Warrandyte’s They want an MP who knows, community and who is responsive to climate change and protect our river public schools. understands and listens to their their concerns. and our agricultural industries. Our kinders will also benefit, with community. It is also important to have a local Last year was yet another that was Labor ensuring funding for 3 and I would be that MP. member of parliament who shares the hottest on record; in an area like 4-year-old kinder, reducing this cost the values of the local community. Warrandyte where bushfires are a to families, as well as increasing Development needs to reflect concern, we must act. early childhood educators’ pay by 20 neighbourhood character and need. It’s time for the climate change war per cent. Where to We want the unique nature of to end and for government to show Labor will reduce out of pocket costs Warrandyte, the leafy trees and rural true leadership to reduce emissions for cancer treatment and hospitals Stella Yee feel to be preserved, but we also want and make energy cheaper. like the Austin will get more support, easy access to good services. Labor will reduce emissions by 45 including a new MRI machine licence vote on Labor This includes a reliable NBN, per cent by 2030 and will deliver 50 and an additional $20 million for the especially for the more than 3,000 per cent renewables by 2030, lowering Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research May 18 The people of Warrandyte care deeply being guided by political decisions and Australia) and redirect it to small and about maintaining a vibrant, peaceful pork-barrelling. medium institutions, would bring The Diary has compiled a list and diverse community. Reason’s plan to legalise, regulate some diversity to the creative sector. of polling places within 10km I personally believe the parks, wildlife and tax adult cannabis use, will bring I know many residents are concerned of Warrandyte. and largely untouched bushland of significant revenue to the government, about our climate emergency, for Warrandyte, make it a fantastic place allowing more investment in roads, which I will say; I unequivocally Warrandyte Primary School to live. schools and services. support renewables and evidence- Residents are looking for fiscally If elected, I would recommend a based solutions for the environment. Warranwood Primary School responsible, progressive change this parliamentary committee investigate Others may not see this as a major election. a Federal framework for the States issue for them, but would likely Wonga Park Primary School Kevin Andrews has spent the last to decide their own approach to agree that the beautiful surrounds 28 years in Parliament blocking regulation. of Warrandyte make it a very special Ringwood North Primary School any measure that conflicts with his I would also move to extend access to place, given its proximity to Melbourne. personal views as a Catholic. medicinal cannabis and implement a I believe that voters are looking for a Research Primary School It’s time for a real liberal to represent national driving impairment policy to viable alternative for their community the community. keep our roads safe. from a party who has a track record of Park Orchards Communtiy Infrastructure on our city’s fringe is Residents know and appreciate that getting stuff done. Centre struggling to keep up with population the area is home to many local artists It’s time for more ‘REASON’ in growth. who the major parties have neglected. politics. North Warrandyte Family Centre Rachel Payne Residents are dealing with ever- Reason’s policy to set aside 1 per Please check out Reason’s full range increasing commute times and would cent of the funds that currently go to of policies at reason.org.au. Kangaroo Ground Primary be thoroughly disillusioned with major art institutions (e.g. Australia School Reason Party transport infrastructure investment Council, Opera Australia, Festivals Whitefriars College As a Christian minister for 45 years, to phase out the use of all fossil fuels and MPs from accepting lobbying jobs after I’m standing for the Greens because transition to 100 per cent renewables they retire from Parliament. Onemda our policies match with the principles by 2030, creating 180,000 plus jobs The Greens have also long called for a of the Christian faith — justice, nationally in sustainable industries and Federal Anti-Corruption Commission Doncaster Rovers Soccer Club equality, compassion and care for the bringing down skyrocketing energy to investigate and prosecute politicians (available for interstate voting) environment. prices that are putting household and when they do the wrong thing. Our policies include protecting the businesses under pressure. The Greens support a new generation planet and humanity with real action The Greens oppose the Adani coal of environmental laws to preserve, and against government of the day on climate change and protecting project in Queensland and unlike restore and expand our green spaces; policy. the environment, compassionate Labor and Liberal parties, refuse large clean up our environment by banning The Greens offer voters the treatment of refugees, ensuring donations from fossil fuel companies. the use of plastic bags; improving our opportunity to express their desire that everyone has access to good The Greens believe we need to clean waterways (like the Yarra River). for an Australia where we all live in a schools, a universal healthcare system, up politics in Australia. The Greens will establish an healthy, caring environment; where sustainable and affordable housing Since 2012, the major parties have Environmental Protection Authority governments seek to pursue policies and jobs that pay fair wages. taken $100 million in corporate to be a new cop on the beat against to benefit all and not a privileged The world’s climate scientists donations — they’re working for their those who would trash our unique minority. are telling us we have a decade to corporate mates, not the Australian environment. An Australia that treats all people tackle global warming, which means people. Under the Greens, new deal spending — whether First, or Second Peoples transitioning away from coal, oil The Greens also want to ban corporate on environmental protection will go with dignity and respect; and where Robert Humphreys and gas and into renewable energy, donations from the coal and fossil fuel from $70million to $455million. we cooperate with other nations in otherwise we’re heading for a climate industry, the big banks, gambling and The Greens seek to protect the rights removing the root causes of war: catastrophe. property developers. of community groups, charities, and injustice, poverty, disease and climate The Greens The Greens have a fully costed policy In addition, the Greens would ban other non-for-profits to speak out for change.

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MAY 2019 Warrandyte Diary 5 meet your candidates The coming election presents a stark We need the Morrison Government Warrandyte projects And most income earners will never choice. to be re-elected to ensure a strong Locally, I have secured funding move into a higher tax bracket under If elected, Labor would increase economy, and an Australia where for many projects, including the the Coalition’s proposals. taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars families and small businesses can get Warrandyte RSL to upgrade facilities, Fighting for Warrandyte — including on retirees, housing, ahead. the Friends of Warrandyte State Park incomes, investments and family I am also fighting for more funding Better services to install a water system, as well as for Warrandyte, including lighting businesses. road safety improvements in North These tax hikes would not only A strong economy means we have the improvements at the Warrandyte ability to pay for needed services, such Warrandyte. Football Club, funding towards penalise those who work hard to get A new electronic scoreboard has ahead. as our local schools. resurfacing the all-weather oval at Hence the Coalition has committed been funded for the South Warrandyte Anderson’s Creek Primary School and They would also hurt many Cricket Club. Australians who have, in good faith, to a 55 per cent growth per student in grants for the Middle Yarra Landcare planned their retirement according to future Commonwealth funding for Business assistance Network and Yarra River Keepers as certain rules, only to have those rules state schools in Menzies. 16,531 small and medium businesses part of our Communities Environment radically changed to their detriment. This is good news for parents in Menzies are benefitting from tax Program. When Labor was last in government, with students at Warrandyte and relief introduced by the Government. This is a practical approach to they had inherited a $20 billion surplus. Andersons Creek Primary Schools and 1,357 local businesses have taken improve the health of our Yarra River. Over six years Labor produced six Warrandyte Secondary School. advantage of the popular instant asset A stark choice deficits, totalling $240 billion. And Catholic and independent write-off scheme. school funding is also increasing. The choice at this election is stark. It has taken years to recover. Recent changes mean that the write It is between a Coalition Government Budget surplus and more jobs Local roads off will now apply to assets of up to that will grow the economy and jobs, $25,000 — helping local business This year, the Morrison Government I have also secured more than $16 increase services, and reduce taxes — million in funding for local roads, to and jobs. and a Bill Shorten government that Kevin Andrews will return the Budget to surplus. 58,924 low and middle income Last financial year, for the first time, ease congestion in Menzies. will increase taxes on retirees, housing, This is particularly important for earners in Menzies will benefit from investments and family businesses. over 100,000 young Australians got income tax relief this year, with many Liberal a job. traffic pinch points over the Yarra River. receiving the full tax offset. Terri is a lawyer and is the National As the Democratic Labour Party and reducing the necessity for both Terri is also campaigning on the spokesperson for the Australian Family (Labour DLP) is not standing a parents to work full time and place Labour DLP policy, first introduced Association. candidate in her own electorate their children in long term child care. in the 1970’s, of free dental care for Terri has worked for the Director of Terri has chosen to stand in the An equally important policy is the children under 16 and all pensioners. Public Prosecutions and for one of the neighbouring seat of Menzies in National Student Credit scheme in Nationally Terri and Labour DLP are largest Australian Unions. support of Kevin Andrews and his fight which funding for students is given calling for a National Development Terri has been involved in numerous against the socially and economically to the parents in the form of a credit Bank to fund major infrastructure campaigns supporting family rights dangerous policies of the ALP and rather than directly to the schools. projects through voluntary Australian and opposing the anti-life policies of Greens. This credit can then be allocated to Superannuation investments instead full-term abortion and euthanasia. As a Labour DLP candidate Terri is the school that meets the parents of overseas borrowings. Terri grew up in country Victoria and campaigning on traditional Labour requirements upon the enrolment of Fuel security is also a vital concern is married with four children. policies. their child. for most Australians and Labour DLP She has dedicated herself to stand Every policy the DLP propose is The policy also allows for a pro-rata is calling for a National Fuel reserve for those family principles that determined on three questions. payment for home-schooling families. to guarantee 12 months supply for governments seem to discard so Is it good for the family? Negative gearing would also stay for emergency services, defence and readily in recent years. Is it good for the worker? the first property but would reduce on public transport requirements and a The thought of the Socialist ALP Is it good for the community? a sliding scale by 10 per cent for the six month supply for the public. Teresa Kelleher winning government alongside their Terri believes one of the most basic second property, 25 per cent for the Terri believes that all government extremist allies the Greens brought of Labour policies that is being ignored third, 50 per cent for the fourth, 75 per policies should be based on Terri to the decision that she had by the ALP is the policy of Income cent for the fifth and be eliminated for the three questions Labour DLP Democratic to stand as a candidate, not only of Splitting, which allows a couple to the sixth and further properties. asks and displays on its website genuine traditional Labour policies split their income between them for This would protect the small investor www.dlp.org.au but of a decent and principled MP who taxation purposes, thereby increasing and self-funded retirees while granting Labour Party she could support. the families annual disposable income a reduced benefit to larger investors.

There are obviously many varied Tax breaks for small business. behalf to upgrade and maintain Everyday Australians should not have issues that are of importance to the Change how provisional tax is paid. rundown facilities. to support the retirement lifestyle of people and community of Warrandyte, Many Small businesses are crippled Supporting farmers former politicians. the UAP and myself. by provisional tax. Everybody should be treated equally Different issues for different stages Promoting, protecting and in Australia. Allowing them to pay provisional supporting Australian Farmers and in people’s lives and different areas tax at the end of the year after they within Warrandyte. Australian Industry. On a personal level, Aged Care is have earned their money, instead We are behind our farmers and we Rising costs of amenities of quarterly in advance, the United something I am very passionate about. will introduce the Australia Fund to Having worked in the industry for Creating reliable, sustainable and Australia Party will release $70 billion support our primary producers in into the economy. over 13 years, I am aware of many affordable energy for all Australians times of natural disaster or economic things that need to be changed to for now and into the future. Aged services hardship. create a better environment for Electricity prices have gone up 50 per An increase in pensions of $150 per What Australia grows, grows residents and staff. cent in the past 10 years. week. Australia. Carer-to-patient ratios, is a key area Every household and every business Protecting, supporting and helping Government must allocate greater which needs to have a standard set. is paying for excessive and unnecessary Elderly Residents in their homes, with funds to assist our farmers and protect This is also the case in nurse-to- over-investment in our electricity maintenance, meals and company. our national food security. patient ratio’s in the medical field. network by the power companies. Supporting the RSL and our Political entitlements If elected I would consult with the Brett Fuller Australian consumers are being wonderful Veterans. Outgoing members of parliament people of Warrandyte, so that together ripped off by the power companies. Local heritage and facilities should not be entitled to ongoing we can prioritize what needs to be actioned first and together we can United Australia Emergency services Maintaining and protecting taxpayer funded entitlements. Politicians do not make a greater “Make Australia Great”. Managing bushfires effectively by Warrandyte’s heritage. “Put Australia First”. consulting the communities and the Supporting Sporting Clubs by contribution to the nation than anyone Party fire authorities. lobbying local government on their else. 6 Warrandyte Diary MAY 2019 Menzies Climate Forum By SUSAN FOREMAN issues from the Adani coal mine to not committed support. IT WAS STANDING room only at reforming the Federal environmental Brett Fuller agreed that coal fired the Doncaster East Senior Citizens legislation and to the reinstatement of power stations were a bad idea, but Hall late last month when local youth ministers. then affirmed the UAP’s support for environment groups hosted a Climate The questions were answered nuclear power (perhaps the wrong Forum. surprisingly honestly — sometimes audience for that announcement). The event was a chance for voters a little too honestly — and with all Again, not surprisingly, the Greens to hear the environmental policy members toeing the party line, despite candidate, Rob Humphreys seemed from all candidates standing for the being pressed for their personal to be the only member in the room seat of Menzies, as well as here from opinion on some contentious issues who was able to affirm support local climate activists from GetUp, such as support for Adani and climate for each of the forum’s big-ticket WarrandteCAN, Jaga Jaga Youth for action. statements — Yes to action on climate Climate and, Coral not Coal. There were not a lot of surprises change and No to Adani. Of the four declared candidates, from what the candidates’ parties However, in a candid moment Mr three were in attendance. had already announced, and this is Humphrey’s professed he held out Stella Yee from the Labor Party, where the forum’s concept fell down little hope in winning the seat for Robert Humphreys of the Greens, — and a frustrating symptom of what the Greens. game, where very soon humanity the worst effects of climate change, and Brett Fuller from United Australia is wrong with our current political Two of the members of Jaga Jaga must choose between taking and that the current leadership is not Party, while Liberal Kevin Andrews system — with climate shaping up Youth for Climate, Marco Bellemo unprecedented action, or accept doing nearly enough. was absent. to being this election’s BBQ Stopper, and Kaity Thompson spoke to the that it has been left too late and bear That there was such a large turnout Candidates from the Reason Party candidates were at pains to stay on gathering about their frustration over the consequences.” to the event demonstrates that and the DLP had not yet nominated message and not to deviate from the the political inaction, and their fears While it can be said that those who climate change is heating up as an at the time of the forum. party mantra. for the future of the planet. would attend such a forum are already issue this election. Following a short preamble from Stella Yee could not commit to They quoted Professor Hans concerned about climate action, the Warrandyte CAN livestreamed the facilitator David Spratt, the candidates support for a review of the Adani Schellnhuber who said: “Climate feeling in the room was that urgent event to Facebook, to watch it at: fielded a range of questions on approvals because Bill Shorten had change is now reaching the end- action needs to be taken to arrest facebook.com/warrandytecan Counting down to “the Climate Election” reduction in emissions from green edge 2005 levels by 2030 is consistent nation’s electricity is sourced with a dangerous global Climate from renewable energy by 2030; temperature increase of well • has not committed to stopping By JEFF CRANSTON over 2o–3oC; the Adani mine or reviewing WarrandyteCAN • whereas Labor’s policy pledges the environmental approvals, position involving a 45 per A snapshot of each party’s position on but opposes any public cent reduction in emissions climate change. funding of the mine. from 2005 levels by 2030 is In brief, the position of each of the The Greens targeted at enabling Australia solutions. parties represented by candidates in • aim to achieve net zero No wonder the election on May 18 to meet its obligations under Menzies may be outlined as follows: the Paris Agreement to limit the or net negative Australian is being called the Climate Election! greenhouse gas emissions by WarrandyteCAN believes that to global temperature increase to “well below 2oC” — but not The Liberal/National Coalition 2040, and to this end would set date Australians have been seriously o Australia’s emissions target at let down by so many of our politicians. necessarily to 1.5 C. • has pledged support for a $3.5 billion Climate Solutions a 63–82% reduction from 2005 Some of them have been denialists Despite these differences, it is levels by 2030; with no real commitment to climate unclear what a change of government Package; • has committed to a 26% • want an orderly phase-out of action at all, while others have would mean for the Adani coal mine fossil fuel mining, fossil fuel- understood the climate change in Queensland. reduction in emissions below 2005 levels by 2030, but will based electricity generation problem but have avoided taking Labor’s position on Adani has been and consumption of fossil fuels SINCE THE last federal election in a stand on the issue for reasons of ambiguous and it has been unwilling use carry-over credits from the 2016, climate change has hit home Kyoto agreement to achieve consistent with its emissions political expediency. to even commit to considering whether reduction plan; and to Australians more than ever before. At this election, voters will be able to review the Federal environmental this target; and The summer of 2018–19 was • strongly supports development • strongly oppose the Adani coal to choose between candidates who approvals now in place. mine. Australia’s hottest on record, followed stand for urgent climate action and By contrast with the major parties, of the Adani coal mine. by our hottest March on record. those who don’t. the Greens’ policy position aims to be Labor Other Parties We’ve witnessed two landmark This choice is pivotal, as it is a consistent with limiting the average • has committed to a 45% Our research to date indicates that student strikes, and growing numbers o choice about the sort of future we global temperature increase to 1.5 C. reduction in emissions below neither the UAP nor the DLP appear of young people deeply concerned want: for ourselves, our children and WarrandyteCAN urges voters to give to have any policy on climate change. about their future in a world of 2005 levels by 2030, and has grandchildren, and future generations. the highest priority to climate change said it won’t use Kyoto credits The Reason Party has a range of dangerous climate change. It is a choice about whether Australia, as an election issue, and make a wise progressive policies supporting Last October, the IPCC released its to achieve this target; one of the world’s most advanced and informed decision about their • aims to ensure that 50% of the emissions reduction, renewable Special Report on Global Warming of energy and environmental protection. o and affluent countries, should set a choice of candidate for the sake of our 1.5 C, in which the world’s scientists good example and show international planet’s future! issued a dire warning about the leadership by taking decisive action to devastating impacts of global warming o reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. higher than 1.5 C above pre-industrial And it is a choice about whether your say Party postal message levels. we embrace the great potential of The report explained that by 2030 we renewable energy, including its Dear Diary, Andrews — advertising all the wonderful This method of getting us to read his have to reduce our carbon emissions potential for reducing power prices I received an envelope in the mail things his party had done for us on — jobs, letters may be legal but in my view it is by 45 per cent below 2010 levels to keep and generating jobs and economic yesterday marked “Important — voting debt, tax, schools, keeping us safe etc. etc. deceptive and not okay. the average global temperature rise to information for the 2019 Federal o growth. some of which I would question. It does not encourage me to believe he is no more than 1.5 C. Election — Priority”. A comparison between the major It was only at the bottom as a post script, the best person to represent me. The report also found that Australia is parties reveals that: one of the most vulnerable developed I believed it to contain important voting that he included a Postal Vote application What do other readers think? information from the Electoral Office. countries to the impacts of climate • the Coalition’s policy position form in case we were unable to vote on T. Hicks, change but is contributing little to the involving a 26–28 per cent Inside was a signed letter from Kevin polling day. Warranwood MAY 2019 Warrandyte Diary 7

WONGA PARK NEWS sponsored by Kellybrook Winery Happy Birthday Wonga Park Farmers’ Market

By SANDI MILLER Wonga Park Farmers’ Market to life”. Photo: JENNY KELLY WONGA PARK Farmers’ Market “The market provides a meeting celebrated its second birthday in place (and great coffee!) for the locals, April. something that our community has The monthly market held on the been missing for a long time. last Saturday of each “Jenny is passionate about month in the grounds of quality food and produce the Wonga Park Primary and that is exactly what you School has fast become will find,” she said. a tradition for locals to The market offers peruse the array of fresh fresh food, arts and produce on offer. crafts produced by local Organiser Jenny Kelly stallholders. says, the support from the There is also a chance to community has seen the grab a coffee and a bite to market go from strength to strength eat while you are there, as you enjoy over the last two years, and she hopes the local musicians performing at the that it will continue to flourish. monthly event. Local resident Annette Felicissimo There are also activities to keep the says she loves that Wonga Park has kids entertained while you browse such a high-quality local market, and the stalls. praised Jenny Kelly and the team at Next month’s market is May 25, Wonga Park Primary School for having 9am–2pm at Wonga Park Primary worked “incredibly hard to bring the School, Dudley Road, Wonga Park. Hoon hastle your say Jumping Creek Road update We called the emergency services with the CFA arriving within 10 minutes. By DAVID HOGG is underway. “Works to relocate water, gas and Dear Diary, They extinguished the fire before it escaped into the tinder dry bush on this A MEETING of the Jumping Creek “The order of works and stages will telecommunications lines between This is an issue I think everyone living in occasion, but imagine if it was one of our Road Reference Panel took place be finalised as part of this planning Ringwood-Warrandyte Road and and around Warrandyte must be made hot nights with a north wind blowing. on April 11, and following this the phase. Nelson Drive are continuing along aware of and I ask that you all share this The stages that are currently being Jumping Creek Road, and construction with your friends to ensure as many The river would be no fire break as the Diary has been given an update by embers would be landing in our village. Manningham Council as promised. considered as part of the construction works are expected to commence in people as possible will know about project plan are: Stage 1A in approximately October this very local, potentially dangerous We have two major issues here and locals Leigh Harrison, Director City have tried to eliminate them in the past Services, tells us: “Council is currently • Ringwood-Warrandyte Road to this year. situation. “This stage will include a planning even meeting with an MP on site, to no working to finalise the project Nelson Drive (Stage 1A) Jumping Creek Reserve, off Jumping avail. planning, construction methodology • Nelson Drive to Jumping Creek permit process, which will be Creek Road, but across the Yarra from These two issues: and timelines for the Jumping Creek • Jumping Creek to 170 Jumping advertised for public comment in the North Warrandyte, approximately 1.5 Road upgrade. Creek Road coming months.” kms as the crow flies north of Warrandyte • The park is only ever closed if the “Works are being considered in • Wonga Park town centre The project is proposed to be Village, is a ticking time bomb. fire rating is severe or extreme, not • Yarra Road to Homestead Road. constructed over an eight-year period, necessarily on a Total Fire Ban day. stages along the length of Jumping but no timeline has yet been given I live directly opposite the picnic area and Creek Road and the staging and car park, and along with my neighbours I This means vehicle access is 24 “As part of detailed planning for each for the completion of the planning hours at all other times. schedule of construction works will of these stages, Council is continuing phase, nor for timing and content of enjoy hearing visitors having a good time aim to minimise community impacts to work with the Jumping Creek Road at the Reserve during the day. • Wood fires BBQs are available here, the specific stages beyond the much- with wood provided by Parks Vic, while this road construction project Reference Panel. quoted Stage 1A. However, as night falls other visitors arrive, doing burnouts and causing so all year round. In such a high fire much noise it is unbearable. danger area why do we need wood fired BBQs? Parks Vic answer to this I’m sure this terrorises the wildlife in that is “healthy Parks, healthy people”.I Women walk on the wild side area as well. believe it would be acceptable to Sometimes they light fires (with wood all visitors to the park to have no WONGA PARK Women’s Local Day provided by Parks Vic) and then they fires at all in the fire ban season. If I Out is back for 2019. leave, often leaving the fires burning.... can’t light a fire 50 meters away on The day of fun and friendship allows and these fires are not always in the my property, why should visitors women to discover something about BBQ areas. to the park be able to light fires? their local community and about My neighbours and I regularly have to Remembering that not all fires are lit in the BBQ areas. themselves. call the CFA and police but of course after The event is also a fundraiser for hours police from Doncaster are never Ok locals, what should we do about this Wonga Park CFA. going to arrive in time to catch the hoons. situation, are you all happy to allow this The lucky women on the day will Last night (early April) at 10:30pm the to continue? move from one activity to the next, situation escalated dramatically. I believe it is only a matter of time, not these being located in close proximity, Hoons were doing burnouts for half an if, but when, before a similar situation enjoying an interactive, mystery filled, hour before leaving and peace reigned arises and we locals are not around to fun experience, finishing at a local again, for ten minutes until the first call emergency services. winery for a light lunch around the fire. massive explosion bought me to my feet. We need the park closed at sunset and Comfy clothes and shoes are Across the river was a huge car fire, wood fired BBQs removed. recommended. flames leaping up among the top leaves A small price to pay to keep Warrandyte Wonga Park Women’s Local Day of gum trees. and surrounding suburbs safe. Out takes place on Wednesday, June 5, 2019 from 9am. More explosions and finally the car was totally engulfed with the sky alight with Gail Watts, Tickets cost $60 from: Photo: SANDI MILLER trybooking.com fire and smoke. North Warrandyte

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It grew from there and after much and later by visiting nursing home work, led by Ted and Shirley, the residents with her German Shepherd, Shirley Rotherham first museum opened in 1982 at the Gretel. Getson’s site (pre-Community Centre) Shirley spent time archiving which featured a working blacksmith’s memorabilia and photographs at the January 20 1935 – March 18 2019 shop. museum on a weekly basis for years, Then, in the early 1990s the Society in later times with her faithful canine was able to move to the restored Old companion, Darcey, on her own Post Office building. special mat under the desk. Shirley was there throughout, always Shirley and Ted received a Royal dependable, generous with her time, Historical Society Award of Merit in and attending to every detail, laying 1998. the foundation for the museum as it She featured in a portrait by Walter is today. Magilton commissioned by the Shirley was a strong supporter of Warrandyte Historical Society in 2011. the Warrandyte Festival and she It was most fitting that Shirley and Ted featured in many floats and launched the Society’s book Wonderful exhibitions over the years, Shirley in Warrandyte at her final formal farewell mob cap and apron, or stylish dress event in 2014 where she spoke and bonnet or leading children on eloquently of her love for Warrandyte, horseback. likening it to “a warm hug”. Shirley and Ted proudly appeared as Shirley’s husband Ted, another pillar Festival monarchs in 1998. of the Warrandyte community, died in A woman of many talents, Shirley May, 2009. was a photo colourist in the days Following his death, which came before colour film. two weeks after their 50th wedding She turned her hand to saddlery anniversary, Shirley moved to Cobden when her children needed equipment to be nearer her daughter Joanne, for their horses and was a stalwart and to begin a new chapter in her life, supporter of the Wyena Pony Club, again becoming involved in the local and was made a life member in 1983. historical society. She did exquisite cross-stitch Shirley involved herself fully in the embroidery only changing to larger life of Warrandyte and the community scale when her eyesight demanded it. is poorer for her passing. Shirley loved nature and she fostered The Historical Society pays tribute A Back to Warrandyte weekend was this in her children through family to Shirley’s long and active service arranged to celebrate it and Shirley camping trips and encouraging them over the decades, her knowledge and Ted were prominent among the to have adventures in the Warrandyte and expertise, and her enormous organisers. bush and the river. contribution to the Society. A stage coach headed a procession She was a skilled photographer Shirley’s long and good life was along Yarra Street and carried and never missed an opportunity to celebrated in her beloved Warrandyte the area while visiting a friend. residents in period dress up to the capture moments with her family, on Sunday, April 28, 2019 with a large They settled in Tills Drive where school, Ted was prominent in his travels and much-loved pets. gathering of friends and family. obituary Ted, lovingly supported by Shirley, policeman “bobby’s” outfit while Shirley was a school crossing lady Shirley is survived by her children, embraced the challenge of building Shirley and the children rode in the for years at West End, and was a great Joanne Heard (Cobrico, VIC), Andrew Shirley Rotherham, long-time resident their own home. coach in period clothes. favourite with the children. Rotherham (Allans Flat, VIC) and and friend of Warrandyte and tireless They went on to raise their three Aware that a lot of Warrandyte’s She was actively involved with Karen Rotherham (Perth, WA) and community volunteer, died in Cobden, children, Joanne, Andrew and Karen, historical information was lost in the the children’s schools, Warrandyte her six grandchildren, Jennifer and Victoria after a brief illness on March in the home that Ted built himself, 1939 and 1962 fires, Ted and Shirley Primary and Mitcham Technical Georgina Heard and Lochie, Henry, 18, 2019, aged 84 years. immersing their family in Warrandyte were inspired to form the Warrandyte College, and was always willing to do Annie and Pippa Rotherham. Shirley and her husband Ted life. Historical Society. whatever was required. Anyone wishing to contact the Rotherham moved to Tills Drive, In 1975 the old stone building at the This started in 1976 with Ted as Shirley also bought friendship Rotherham family are encouraged Warrandyte in 1958 as newlyweds, Warrandyte Primary School celebrated the first President and Shirley as and kindness to elderly residents to contact Andrew on: after falling in love with the beauty of its centenary. Secretary. through her role with Meals on Wheels [email protected]

Queen of the Shire The Queen of the Shire was due to be Finalists Exhibition installed on Wednesday 1 May after being given a clean-up, while in storage, Monday 20 – Sunday 26 May 30 May – 21 July during VicRoad’s construction work on Bringing People Together – Barn Gallery, Montsalvat the Warrandyte Bridge. The iconic work from your neighbourhood to your nation National Volunteer Week celebrates of art by Deborah Halpern, is much-loved PLACE AND SPACE Members of the community are invited to the generous contribution of by residents and motorists alike – and it is drop into the Neigbourhood House centres volunteers across Australia. The opening night of the Nillumbik wonderful she is back where she belongs. in Diamond Creek, Panton Hill and Eltham Prize finalists exhibition will be held on Volunteering is a great way to give during Neighbourhood House Week. Thursday 30 May from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Long may the Queen continue to delight back to the community but it’s also all who see her! Eltham centre a great way to learn new skills, keep The Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art active and meet new people. is a biannual acquisitive art prize open to Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm emerging and established artists working Land Management classes and activities Wednesday 15 May and Thursday 16 May To thank the Shire’s volunteers, in any medium across Australia. mini-expo an annual Council Volunteer The exhibition features artworks by the Diamond Creek centre Appreciation event will be held on Sunday 26 May, 1pm-4pm finalists who responded to the themes of Monday to Friday, anytime from 9am-2pm Wednesday 22 May. Allwood Neighbourhood House, Place and Space. Hurstbridge Panton Hill centre Other opportunities for you to thank The $20,000 prize recipient will be Have a cuppa and a chat at this free land Wednesday 15 May 9am-2pm Council’s volunteers will be posted on announced on the opening night. management mini-expo. Speak to a range Council’s Facebook page. Come and meet our friendly staff, see of experts about how to manage your The Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary what is happening in the Centre and meet property. Topics include weed and pest If you are interested in Art is presented by Nillumbik Shire control, protecting local species, agricultural other people from your local community. becoming a volunteer email Council in association with Montsalvat. management, bushfire preparation, Everyone’s welcome. [email protected] For further information visit volunteer opportunities and much more. Further information on Land Management For further information visit Further information at nillumbik.vic.gov.au/nillumbikprize Plans are available on Council’s website. livinglearningnillumbik.vic.gov.au nillumbik.vic.gov.au/volunteer

facebook.com/nillumbikcouncil @nillumbikshire nillumbik.vic.gov.au MAY 2019 Warrandyte Diary 9 The joys of a kitchen gardener Life is sweet with bees INGREDIENTS By EMMA EDMONDS Six things you can do for bees gardening 1.5kg (approx. 4 quinces), peeled, cored, DID YOU KNOW there are over 1. Plant or sow flowering plants cut into small chunks 20,000 bee varieties, most of them — bees like a variety of flowers wild? By KATHY GARDINER 3/4 cup water in clumps of plants a metre 2 tablespoons lemon juice They play a vital role in pollinating or more in size — they like our food crops, every third spoon of THERE IS A clinking of glass jars and 850g sugar (approx.) natives and exotic flowers. world food depends on pollination, the smell of cooking fruit filling the METHOD 2. Put a bee hotel in your garden. but bees are struggling. kitchen as the females in the family get 3. Mow grass in the evening. •Peel, core and cut quince into small Come along to Neighbourhood together to make passata (fresh tomato 4. Teach children and teenagers 1cm pieces. House’s World Bee Day celebration purée) and bottle nectarines, peaches to respect and understand and learn about how you can help and plums. •Put quince, water and lemon juice into bees. this vital creature survive. Got to love autumn and the cooler a large Pyrex bowl, cover tightly with two 5. Use pesticides that are layers of cling film and poke holes into the Ben from Ben’s Bees will be bringing gardening weather and the activities harmless to bees or avoid them top with a knife. along an observation hive and giving inside to preserve the fruits of our altogether. Spray plants in a well-informed talk on bee keeping. harvest (or fruits bought at market for •Select 100% power and dial up seven windless weather conditions A great place to get you started if ridiculously cheap prices by the box). minutes. early in the morning or late in you are thinking of housing a hive. I used to think you needed the the evening. •Press START button. Our native bees won’t be forgotten expensive Vacola preserving urn and but the care, pruning and watering 6. Make a bee bath — add •Remove and stir; recover and return to — you can join us in making a Bee jars but any old large saucepan on the are similar. pebbles to a shallow dish of microwave. Hotel for your garden. stovetop will do. “Pome fruit” are all the fruits that are water so the bees don’t drown. It will be a family friendly afternoon. May brings the Kellybrook Cider members of the rose family — quinces, •Select 100% power and dial up seven It’s normally pretty pricey to attend Other activities will include how to Festival, autumn leaves and the bare pears, apples, loquats, medlars and minutes. an apiarist workshop, but thanks to make bees wax wraps, (a great eco root plants will start appearing in the nashi pears. the Warrandyte Community Bendigo •Press START button. alternative to cling film), making nurseries. If you don’t have space for a full on Bank Branch, our bee workshop •Remove and cool slightly. hand rolled wax candles and honey One of my favourite fruiting trees orchard in your garden you might like is just $15 for adults and FREE for baking. in the garden is the quince (cydonia to explore the “dwarf” varieties of all •Pour into a blender and blend until it children. oblonga) with its beautiful fragile of these or try “espaliering” by pruning forms a smooth puree. summer flowers and its yellow fruit. or training horizontal branches to a •Weigh the puree and add 3/4 of the Event: World Bee Day My tree is only about two metres high frame. weight of sugar to the purée and stir until When: Saturday, May 18, 1pm–4pm but they can grow as big as four metres. Or maybe look at the wonderful fruit well combined. Info: See full listing in our What’s On guide — Page 18. It is a good idea to keep them pruned varieties available in a totem like plant. These make beautiful additions to •Return to the Pyrex bowl and select 100% to keep within a manageable height (as power and dial up 40 minutes. with all fruiting trees). the vegetable garden. They don’t like to be relocated so They can be used to divide the garden •Press START button; stir every 7 min, choose your position well when you into “rooms”. until thick and pink. plant them. Back to my beautiful quinces with •Depending on the quinces and the Other than that they are quite hardy their vibrant yellow skin and a tough microwave it might not need 40 minutes. and long lived. flesh that never ceases to amaze me when it turns into a soft pink, sweet •The paste should just start to form a They tolerate wet soils but are also wobbly jelly-like consistency. somewhat drought tolerant. tasting sensation when cooked. There are a number of varieties of I love them poached in red wine, but •Don’t take it too far or the paste might quince available so make sure you do they can be made into jellies, jams and become too firm once cooled. your homework before you purchase of course quince paste. •Transfer to a lined square (18cm x18cm) one. And here I am going to share my baking dish or cake tin and spread out Tel: 9844 1839 Angers, Champion, de Bourgeaut, 90-year-old mum’s quince paste recipe evenly. Email: [email protected] made in the microwave which you Fullers, Smyrna and orange and •Cover and refrigerate until cool. Website: pineapple quinces are all available might like to try. warrandyteneighbourhoodhouse.org.au locally. For those of you with not much time, check out my reciepe to the right. Enjoy the cooler weather and maybe They all have different shaped fruits think “orchard” this May. 10 Warrandyte Diary MAY 2019 I know what you did last Easter “Uuummmggggrrrrhhh?” beginning to resemble my gut lining A higher pitched voice solves the bacteria during the great Yakult much ado mystery. Drought of 1999. “It’s school holidays, can I play on Until one night, I try staggering back By KATRINA BENNETT my iPad?” into the house only to find the door Oh, for the love of Google Calendar, blockaded by the “Great Wall of Footy WITH THE endless summer hadn’t they only just gone back to boots, ASICS runners and Havaiana continuing to be, well … an endless school? thongs”. summer, imagine my shock to awaken Surely, it’s still only February? “Oh, for goodness sake, will someone on a Monday morning and find all my Still not sure who the extra bodies please create an opening through all children still asleep in bed. lying around the house were, I had this rubbish so I can get in the door?” Doing my best impression of a chook to refrain from my typical verbose, I shout, onerously thinking indoors with its head cut off running around colourful and unprintable response was where I wanted to be. trying to avoid the KFC truck (just to such revelations. No — indoors was not where I kidding, as if KFC uses real chicken), Rummaging under couch cushions, wanted to be. I discover no breakfast dishes and the through the centre console of the car Not me, nor my nose. absence of Lynx Africa fumes in the air. and the lint collector of the clothes “Oh, for the love of god and all things Not willing to venture too far into dryer I’m able to dump my life savings resembling the living dead, when was the murky gloom of the teenage onto the kitchen bench. the last time anyone had a shower in bedrooms, I’m assuming the breathing As I run out the door, late for work, this house?” lumps are in fact my human offspring. I yell over my shoulder to whoever As I break my way back out through This Sherlock Holmes guesswork was is currently residing in my humble the shoe mountain blocking the door, looking a bit shaky when I counted two abode. gulping in the fresh air, a small voice or three more breathing lumps than I “There’s $3.65 on the bench, make floats out after me. tomorrow” We are leaving the comfort had personally birthed. sure you buy something healthy.” “Did you go food shopping Mum?” “What?” Has Wall Street crashed of our house by the river with a My questioning begins: On, so it went, for the next week and “No, was I supposed to? I thought again? Has an asteroid slipped past roof, plumbing and a bed… to go “Why are you all still sleeping?” a half — Groundhog Day. you enjoyed bin diving at the Bakery Bruce Willis and Armageddon is camping… by a river in a tent, with “Shouldn’t you already be on the way The only thing changing was the and fighting the pigeons for hot chips imminent? no plumbing or a bed. to school?” number of and the varying pitches of at the skate park?” Or has M.A.F.S. finally departed from Please, please, please Bruce Willis, And, pausing briefly to shake my the voices that would reply to me as If I really did have eyes in the back our TV screens in a festival of red wine for the love of the ageing process. head and lower my voice “Who the I’d run out the door. of my head, I’m pretty certain I would throwing and botched plastic surgery? May your reflexes have gone the hell are most of you?” Sometimes there didn’t appear to be have witnessed an Academy Award “It’s Good Friday tomorrow, way of your hair and you miss that After some guttural replies, loosely enough voices, sometimes too many winning eye rolling performance remember? asteroid. translated as: and alarmingly on two occasions there from whichever of my malnourished We’re going camping for Easter,” they Slumped at my front door staring “Wwhhhuuuutttt?” were none. offspring was following me. excitedly reply. “Hhhhuuuuhhh?” vacantly at the sky above — right now, My “work-life balance” was “Yes, you were, IGA’s closed Of. Course. We. Are. Armageddon is looking pretty good. Clever Curtis the dynamic duck diving dog DIARY PHOTOGRAPHER Bill retrieve the rock. McAuley had the pleasure of meeting He then pops up with the large rock one of Warrandyte’s canine “rock in his mouth. stars”. Jan told the Diary that Curtis’ quirky Curtis is a ‘Retrievador’ half Golden hobby is self-taught. Retriever and half Labrador — also half seal according to his owner, Jan. Dogs of all shapes, sizes and talents When they throw large rocks in can be spotted along the Warrandyte the water at Warrandyte the dog will riverside. dive under, sometime becoming Send your pup pics to: completely submerged in order to [email protected]

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May Friday 24th Saturday 25th from 7pm 03 98445081 UPCOMING MARKETS 8am to 1pm Saturday June 1 and Saturday July 6 166 Yarra Street Warrandyte - [email protected] Stiggants Reserve, Warrandyte Hours Mon-Thur 7.30am to 5pm, Fri-Sat 7.30am to 9pm, Sun 8am to 5pm www.warrandyteriversidemarket.com.au MAY 2019 Warrandyte Diary 11 Julie in the limelight Cleaning up our bush: North Warrandyte’s Litter Warrior LIZ BLACKWOOD takes a whole JULIE QUINTON has been chosen “The untimely death of her husband week of work each year to pick up to take part in Independent Grocers saw her taking on the store, putting rubbish along the north side of the of Australia’s (IGA) latest video her stamp on it and taking the moral Yarra. campaign “1,400 stores, 1,400 stories”. stance of removing all cage eggs This year she collected over four The campaign showcases IGA from the shelves, making her the first cubic metres of other people’s owners across the country to help known supermarket in Australia to do rubbish. the greater community to better so,” they said. She then sorts it into the skip for know the person behind their local Julie spoke about her ethical landfill and large yellow bags for supermarket. approach to sourcing products. recyclables. An IGA representative spoke to “When I originally took over the “Thanks to mum and dad for helping the Diary about their decision to supermarket, learning more and and also bringing me icy poles on showcase Julie in their latest batch of seeing how things were done, they the side of the road...it was hot this 1,400 stores campaign videos. weren’t sitting right with me. year!” she said. “Julie was chosen by IGA in “I’ve always had strong beliefs Liz’s mother Celia told the Diary that recognition of her unrelenting around animal cruelty, so I made the Liz has been doing this for several commitment and passionate support decision for moral reasons to only years, occasionally with the help of of the local community over the years, stock eggs from free range farms. family, friends and neighbours. and will be championed by IGA “The experience was really positive “I think this is the fourth time Liz nationally. with all of our customers supporting has had a skip to fill — it was filled “As part of the initiative, Julie has my stance and we now stock a huge up further when neighbours paddled been given a platform to tell her range of vegan, organic, ethically the river and even collected a fuel emotional personal story about living sourced and local produce. tank,” Celia said. in, working with and supporting “We are in charge of these businesses “Pick up your rubbish people,” the local community along with the that have to stand for something and I quipped Liz. reasons why she put her beliefs into am excited to be part of a big shift that practice in her store. is happening.” The Diary offers a round of applause “Julie Quinton, owner of Quinton’s to this amazing Warrandytian. Supa IGA Warrandyte, is no ordinary Julie’s story is already online and Great work Liz. supermarket owner. can be found on the IGA website. Residents urged to dob in a dumper rubbish and taking it to the transfer trips a day to the transfer station. station. Environment and Sustainability Cr Egan said not only residents but Chair Cr Jane Ashton said catching the also businesses were dumping rubbish culprits was very difficult. including matrasses, tyres, burnt-out “Last week alone so much rubbish cars, televisions, household waste, was dumped that Council had to put RESIDENTS ARE being asked to “dob builders’ rubble and even asbestos on two extra trucks and take four extra in a dumper” as Nillumbik Shire across the Shire, often at night. staff members off their normal duties Council cracks down on the amount of “It’s disgraceful! What makes it worse to help out.” junk dumped across the municipality. is every time asbestos is dumped, “People are dumping rubbish to Council is asking residents to not Council has to call in a special avoid having to pay costs at the transfer only report rubbish that is dumped, hazardous waste team to dispose of station — but their selfish actions but sightings of any culprits in action. it,” Cr Egan said. mean the cost of this is borne by all the Residents are being asked to phone There were 852 callouts from ratepayers,” Cr Ashton said. the 24-hour EPA hotline or Council. residents over dumped rubbish in the Mayor Karen Egan said figures last nine months — that works out to The 24-hour EPA hotline is on 1300 showed Council was incurring on average 30 callouts a week. 372 842 or phone Council customer significant costs each year picking up Council officers can make up to four service on 9433 3111. 12 Warrandyte Diary MAY 2019 EMF sleep study participants needed NICOLE BIJLSMA is a building (natural conception as she didn’t stores across Australia. biologist and CEO of the registered qualify for IVF) and spent the next Nicole is currently undertaking her training organisation — Australian two decades investigating the impact PhD on wireless technologies and their College of Environmental Studies of hazards in the built environment. impact on sleep and brain function based in Warrandyte. In 1999 she established the college at RMIT and is seeking 17 healthy She first became interested and the building biology couples to be involved in a four-week in environmental medicine industry in Australia and wrote study. following two events in her life: the best seller — Healthy Home To be eligible, you need to live in firstly working as a naturopath Healthy Family — now in its a detached home (not multi-storey and acupuncturist she noticed 3rd edition, which attracted apartment) in the Eastern suburbs, many of her patients with numerous television and radio sleep well, aged between 18 and 55, asthma, allergies and chronic interviews. non-smoker, not pregnant, willing to fatigue syndrome were sick Nicole lectures about avoid digital devices an hour before following exposure to mould, environmental sensitivities at bed, don’t do night shift and won’t electromagnetic fields (EMFs), and/or medical conferences both in Australia travel for four weeks. toxicants like pesticides in their home. and abroad. Each household will receive a $100 However it wasnt until she moved Nicole and her husband Mark, sold healthy home pack upon completion into her home in Warrandyte, that their home in Warrandyte to invest in of the study. she experienced insomnia and ten a manufacturing facility in Bayswater For more details, email miscarriages which she believed arose to create the cleaning product range — [email protected], from sleeping near the meter panel. Abode — specifically for people with www.buildingbiology.com.au After relocating bedrooms, she chemical and skin sensitivities. subsequently gave birth to her twins The products are sold in health food or ring Nicole on 1300 889 845 Digital health: Tips for detecting scam emails By IAN CRAIG phone calls demanding payment — delete them. when it comes to validating any online is able to look at the email objectively WE OFTEN see news items in the or legal threats.” • Don’t respond to phone calls communication that you think is and is tech-savvy enough to be able to popular media about people being about your computer asking for suspicious. spot a scam or suspicious email can Although I work in IT, I am not a remote access — hang up. Or, if you have some experience mean the difference between getting scammed and defrauded out of safety online expert and I am not thousands and sometime hundreds- • Be wary of unusual payment and skills in this area then maybe you scammed or putting their email in the writing this article to scare everyone requests. could offer your services to those in junk folder. of-thousands of dollars. into going back to writing cheques It was not until I witnessed this first The site also has useful clues for your circle. To learn about protecting and switching off their phones or Scammers often use fear and threat hand — when a close member of my spotting a fake document, email or yourself online visit: computers — because I cannot work to get money out of us, which is why family was scammed — that I was able or play without them. dating profile. scamwatch.gov.au/get-help/ to comprehend not just how easy it My safety tip is to have a friend or the billing scams are often used by So why write about it? scammers, so having someone who protect-yourself-from-scams is to be tricked but the extent of the The answer is simple, if we don’t family member who has your back emotional impact this can have on talk about it and warn our friends and someone. neighbours about the potential of a According to government website scam, the ‘scamsters’ will continue Scamwatch (www.scamwatch.gov.au), to take what doesn’t belong to them. in 2018 there were 177,516 reporting We are all familiar with the concept cases of scams, 9.9 per cent of these (like it or not) of the door to door involved the loss of money totalling salesperson who will knock on your $107,001,451. door and try to sell you something That is a lot of money and these are — immediately we take a defensive just the figures for the ones that are approach, ascertain where they are reported, so who knows how many of from and do we trust them. these scams go unreported. So, the point here is that the internet Top five scams for loss of money is like putting your front door in front are investment scams, dating and of every person with something to sell romance, false billing, identity theft or scam on a global scale. and hacking. With the right software, it is easy Billing scam emails seem to be the to send you an email, text message, trend in scamming at the moment with phone call or some novel electronic my friends telling me they repeatedly message with some kind of hook, receive emails claiming they have an opportunity, link, attachment or unpaid invoice or bill. instruction. The Australian Competition and The ACCC’s Scamwatch website Consumer Commission (ACCC) is a great place to educate yourself frequently post information about about current scams and I highly scams on their website and has this to recommend you read their section say about false billing scams: on how to protect yourself against “Often a scam is disguised as an scammers. outstanding invoice to get the But for now, here are some top tips business to sign-up for unwanted on how to reduce your risk of being advertising or office supplies. scammed while online. Another common ploy involves • Be alert to the fact that scams sending invoices for the renewal exist. of a non-existent domain name • Know who you’re dealing with. registration. • Do not open suspicious texts, In some cases, false bills and pop- up windows or click on invoices are followed-up with links or attachments in emails

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More than two million free Torres Strait Islander people and Flu symptoms can include a sudden vaccinations are expected to be Victorians with a chronic condition high fever, headache, body aches and administered before the flu season are also eligible for a free flu feeling extremely weak or tired. takes hold. vaccination as part of the National For children, the elderly or people Minister for Health Jenny Mikakos Immunisation Program. with a weakened immune system, the says vaccination is safe, effective and Victorians over the age of 65 are also flu can have devastating outcomes. it saves lives. covered and the vaccination can be Mr Farmakis says the flu is very “You never forget the flu, so don’t obtained from your local GP. easy to catch, and good hygiene is forget your flu shot. Flu shots are also available at some imperative to avoid the disease. “Coming down with the flu is not pharmacies — without the need to “It is not merely passed on through like catching a cold. visit a doctor. coughing and sneezing, it hangs “It hits you quickly and hard, and Warrandyte Pharmacist, Chris around — even on door handles it can it can last for weeks — and for some Farmakis says the Terry White survive up to eight hours, and then if people, it can be deadly.” Chemmart at the Goldfields Shopping you open the door it is on your hands. A horror flu season in 2017 saw more Centre has established a flu clinic to “It’s very easy to catch, but very easy to than 48,000 Victorians diagnosed with administer vaccinations. prevent by having a flu shot,” he said. influenza. The Terry White Chemmart website Anyone who thinks they have That number fell to 11,612 cases provides a booking service where you the flu should visit their doctor, a last year, but flu diagnoses in 2019 can schedule an appointment, or you pharmacist, or call Nurse-On-Call on: are currently triple what they were can pop in for a walk-up consultation. 1300 60 60 24. Be fire safe over winter Your health begins at home THE WARRANDYTE Diary, in This month, we feature a video THE AUSTRALIAN College significantly with most referrals partnership with the CFA and on using fire blankets by animation of Environmental Studies was coming from integrative clinicians, students on the Swinburne University student Barney Kent. established in 1999 by Nicole Bijlsma natural therapists and realtors. 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Now that the threat of bushfire has Barney shows us how. only nationally accredited course in A small proportion of our passed for the season, it does not Visit the Warrandyte Diary’s website Building Biology and Feng Shui in students come from the building mean that we should not be mindful or the Diary TV YouTube Channel for Australia. and construction industry, trades, of fire around our homes during this and the whole series of fire safety Building biologists are trained to architecture or health industry or winter. videos. investigate health hazards in the those who have been adversely built environment from lead dust, to impacted by environmental hazards allergens (house dust mites, mould, (chemical, mould or EMFs). pet dander and pests), toxicants The Advanced Diploma of Building and electromagnetic fields (EMFs), Biology (10194NAT) is a two-year full and provide strategies to address time/four-year part time nationally exposure. accredited course that consists of Following the Parliamentary inquiry 11 subjects (seven online and four into biotoxin illness and mould in on-campus). become practitioner members of 2018, in addition to the growing Whilst head office is based in the Australasian Society of Building body of evidence associating wireless Warrandyte, the college runs training Biologists (www.asbb.org.au). technologies with adverse health in several States and attracts students W: www.aces.edu.au effects, the demand for Building from all over Australia and the globe. E: [email protected] Biologists across Australia has grown Upon completion, graduates P: 1300 889 845 Priceless community crutches By JOCK MACNEISH arm-crutches that, technically, belong crutches are none the worse for wear. LIKE ALL communities, the to Adrian. I’m not sure the same could be said Warrandyte community is built on I say “technically” because the about my legs. friendship, generosity, care and crutches are almost never at his place. My wife Diana has had both her respect. For more than a dozen years the knees replaced, and yes, she also used We don’t measure out these qualities crutches have been in continuous the crutches to get back into her stride. in units like metres, dollars or litres. circulation around Warrandyte. I know Jack and Jonathan were also We choose not to speak about how They have been “borrowed” by restored to being upright citizens while many units of kindness people display, Adrian’s friends and neighbours to hanging onto the crutches. or the exact width and breadth of their help them get back on their feet after Warrandyte’s walking tracks bear the unselfishness. various operations. imprint of many steady journeys back But in Warrandyte there is something The crutches are once again back at to health, and those arm-crutches that symbolises and represents the my place, as I hobble around on my epitomise a spirit of generosity that care that people have for one another. second knee replacement. pervades the place. Surprisingly, it’s a pair of well-worn My first knee was replaced eight years You can’t put a price on that. ago and I’m pleased to report that the Thank you Adrian.

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Digger, Driver, Sapper, Spy AS WE MARK 104 years since the Each year, Jim’s extended family latest returned serviceman, Sergeant Gallipoli landings, 75 years since head to our little village from all over Warwick Harvey recently returning WWII and 50 years since Vietnam, the the country. from service in Afghanistan. numbers of veterans may be declining, Grandchildren and great- The men and women who serve in but the Anzac spirit is still strong in grandchildren fly or drive from this current conflict were payed tribute Warrandyte. interstate, while his daughter, to, particularly the Engineers, who Nothing illustrates this more than the Warrandyte resident Gaynor Bishop often provide forward reconnaissance, family of Jim Butler. plays host to the dozens of assembled and often pay the ultimate sacrifice. The 96-year-old veteran, served in relations. the Australian Air Force in New Guinea Also attending the service in force Sapper’s Lullaby, by Fred Smith during WWII. this year was the Schneider family, So soldiers, sing me, His daughter, Gaynor, told the Diary who’s forebear Edward Schneider a sapper’s lullaby that, being a musician, his finely was remembered by John Byrne in his You give it your all, tuned ear gave him an aptitude for Anzac Address. Knowing if you should fall deciphering the Japanese Morse Code. Each year, a local veteran’s service That all good things must die “They sent him out into the bush history is acknowledged during the With the disbandment of the Bellbird as a spy to listen in on the Japanese Anzac Day service. Singers, much of the music was communications, which was used John told those gathered at the provided in the form of pre-recorded to give information through to the cenotaph that Edward Christian music, however, some live music for Coastwatchers,” she said. Thomas Schneider, joined the 2nd the ceremony was provided by a new The Coastwatchers were an Field Artillery as a driver, responsible choir, unnamed and comprising of intelligence organisation who were for the welfare of a team of horses for many former members of the Bellbirds, stationed, often on remote Pacific the entire length of the war. they performed the requisite numbers, islands, to gather information on He enlisted at the age of 16. mostly acapella. Japanese troop movements around Edward served in Gallipoli in 1915 A new addition to the service this year the Pacific. and then Belgium before being was the inclusion of the New Zealand He was unable to tell his family about wounded saving his team of horses. National Anthem in the service, with this top-secret role for many years after He was awarded the Military Medal verses in both Maori and English. the war. for his efforts. It was a fitting way to acknowledge (See Jim’s full story right) Going back to the front after some the special relationship we have with Jim’s family have been making the months of convalescence, Edward our neighbours over the ditch. pilgrimage to Warrandyte each year continued to serve in the Field Artillery Organisers were pleased with the to support their father/grand-father/ until the Armistice, returning to his turnout this year, with large contingents great-grand father as he makes his way, family home in Warrandyte in March from the Scouts, the CFA and the with his fellow veterans, on the short 1919. Warrandyte Football Club as well as march down Yarra Street. He died in 1957 and his children, many local families. His family were worried that he grand-children and great-grand It was fortunate that the RSL’s balcony would not make it to the service this children were in attendance to hear was able to be reinforced and upgraded year, having been hospitalised with the their ancestor honoured. in time for this year’s ceremony, as it flu only a couple of weeks ago. David Ryan’s President’s Address got quite a work out, as many of the But the tenacious nonagenarian focussed on current conflicts pointing estimated 500 people in attendance would not be stopped from honouring out that in the 104 years since the stayed behind to enjoy the hospitality his mates and, with the assistance of his Gallipoli landing, Australia have of the club and to catch up with old grandson who pushed his wheelchair, been involved in 35 conflicts, and friends in the clubrooms following The Butler clan kept his April 25 appointment. he acknowledged Warrandyte’s the service. Warrandyte Diary 15 Warrandyte remembers our veterans

Photo: SANDI MILLER

Photo: SANDI MILLER

Jim’s service secret By GAYNOR BISHOP grass was a lonely and frightening WHEN JAMES Harry Bishop joined the grind. reserves for the Air Force aged 17, he On his 21st birthday Jim wondered thought, like his elder brother, that he if anyone back home remembered. would be a pilot. But the men had the knowledge that When he enlisted in the RAAF in May their efforts played a strong part in 1942, he never flew a plane beyond the plans and responses for the Battle of Tiger Moth trainer. the Coral Sea. He began as a wireless operator, but They were instrumental in the soon his excellent skills with Morse shooting down of the plane in which code were recognised and he, with a the Japanese general, Yamamoto, was small group of similarly skilled mates, travelling. was given the opportunity to volunteer During his enlistment Jim travelled for a newly formed area. the Kokoda Track, had malaria — Before they made their decision, they badly — and was present at the Japanese surrender at Morotai. were warned that the group before He was on a ship travelling to the them had all been “wiped out”. Philippines when the call came over Jim volunteered anyway and began a the ship’s speaker that the Japanese war experience which he had to keep had surrendered, and the war was secret for decades. over. Although he wore an Australian Jim’s return to Melbourne was less uniform, Jim worked mainly with than an heroic welcome. Americans in New Guinea. His mother and sister had gone to He was taught Japanese Morse code the railway station to meet him, but and he and his partner were expected Jim was so gaunt and yellow with to tap into Japanese planes when they malaria and jaundice that they did not broke radio silence, take down their recognise him. messages and pass them further along They thought he was not there, so the system until they were eventually they went home, and Jim caught a decoded in Townsville — and then tram alone. acted upon by fighter pilots. Official secrets did not allow him to Members of the group were not tell even his family what he had done given promotion because, if they were during the war, and anyway, Jim didn’t caught, they would be able to plead want to remember. that they were only humble, enlisted It is only in the last decade or so men, not all-knowing officers. that the tasks and exploits of the They also knew very few other men who became known as “The members of the task force, again, for Eavesdroppers” have become public ignorance if captured. and Jim has been able to tell his war Sitting and waiting in head high kunai story. 16 Warrandyte Diary MAY 2019

Our students remember Honouring the rats of Tobruk By SANDI MILLER “We have an existing plaque which the Western Desert to control the FOR MORE than 25 years Warrandyte is down by the 5/6 building and that strategically important area. Primary School has had a relationship will come up here once everything is However, in April an armoured with The Rats of Tobruk Association done, along with a sign on the wall counter-attack by Rommel forced Teacher Cathy Brooks told the Diary which has been done by the Croydon the allies back to Egypt, with 14,000 “the Grade 6 children go down each Men’s Shed. Australian and 12,000 British and year to visit Tobruk Hall in South School Captain, Emily Dickson said Indian troops remained surrounded Melbourne and talk to the existing she and her fellow Grade 6 students by German forces in the Libyan port Rats, I think there are only two left have spent a lot of time learning city of Tobruk. now. They have morning tea and look about the Rats of Tobruk The Commander-in-Chief, General at some of their artefacts from the “We went to the Canberra War Sir Archibald Wavell, decided war — it is a really special time — the Memorial – it is good to see that we however, that Tobruk must be held, children are so respectful and really respect what they have done for our telling General Lavarack: “there is understand the sacrifice that the Rats country,” said Emily. nothing between you and Cairo”. gave for us. The school is also lucky to have a The British Navy still controlled “Then they also have the opportunity member of the community able to the Mediterranean Sea so were able to write a story, which is then judged plan the landscaping. to keep the troops holding the port and a monetary award given, the Rats Parent Brendan Curtis is also on supplied during the siege. have also given us money to put in for the horticulture team at Melbourne Despite constant bombardment children who need support, and that Zoo, and he has designed a and several unsuccessful attacks is done each year. complimentary garden. mounted on the city, for over six We were very lucky, with our He told the Diary that he wanted to months Australians denied the association — they have allowed us take advantage of the fact that Tobruk Germans possession of the area, with to name our multi-purpose building is on the north coast of Africa, on the Nazi radio broadcasts disparagingly (the “old multi”) as Tobruk Hall, which Mediterranean. calling the Australian defenders is a huge honour — they don’t hand “One of the native trees is the olive, “rats”, a name which the Aussies that out lightly. which is also a sign of peace, and adopted as a badge of honour. Cathy said she was not aware of any to give it an Australian connection, Rommel kept up the bombardment other school with the same connection I have also got Lomandra and until November 1941, when a to the Rats. Kangaroo Paws,” he said. counter-attack by the British re-took “Every year, there was a fellow called Around a dozen parents, children the territory, and the siege was ended Reg who used to come, unfortunately and teachers took part in creating a and for the first time in the war, the he passed away last year, he came to graduation and gave out the awards, beautiful garden over the term break. seemingly invincible Germans had finally been turned back. which is a lovely connection we have”. The Siege of Tobruk To compliment the dedication of the At the unveiling of the Memorial building, the school have constructed In early 1941 a pitched battle in the Tobruk War Cemetery, the a commemorative garden and held raged for control over the deserts of late Chester Wilmot said: “their real working bees over the April school north Africa, Allied forces, including monument is their name and their holidays to get the building ready for the Australian 6th Division had most honoured resting place is in the Anzac Day. swept through and taken much of grateful hearts of their fellow men”.

POPPIES ARE an iconic tribute to the teams of Billanook students. and past families, local knitting groups memory of our fallen and returned Reflecting on the success of this and even interstate donations have Moving masterpiece service men and women. collaborative project, Principal Roger contributed to what is a spectacular The spirit of Anzac will be fittingly Oates said, “It’s moving and re- and moving display. commemorated this year with a moving affirming to see how a project such installation created by Billanook as this highlights the importance of College and its local community. community. Billanook, located in Mooroolbark, “The significance of sharing has partnered with Phillip Johnson, intergenerational skills, family stories internationally renowned landscape and dedications to those who made designer and co-creator of the 5000 the ultimate sacrifice is immeasurable”. Poppies Project, to recognise and pay The original target of 5,000 poppies homage to the memory of our Anzacs. has been well and truly surpassed, now On Wednesday, April 24 at their exceeding the 10,000 poppy milestone. annual Anzac Day Service, the College The College community has worked unveiled its outdoor poppy display tirelessly to create this masterpiece. by the banks of the College creek, Weekly student and staff poppy designed by Phillip and installed by workshops, assistance from current A special Anzac symbol at ACPS WHS Anzac Day tribute ON WEDNESDAY, April 24, Warrandyte Laura Hando from the Australian By NIETA MANSER know was that the lone pine tree that of the ceremony by offering a history High School’s School Captains Skye Defence Force-School of Signals grows right next to the flagpole comes of how the Allies landed on the Gedye and Nicholas Dodds (pictured presented the Anzac Address SOME SCHOOL assemblies and below) were accompanied by a remembering all Australians ceremonies are simply part of the from the front lines of Gallipoli. beaches at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915 This year, JSC members decided to and faced fierce resistance from the delegation of student leaders, as they who served and died in war and routine, but at Anderson’s Creek attended the 29th Schools Anzac on operational service and of their Primary School the Anzac Day give the students at ACPS a lesson in Ottoman Turkish defenders. how the pine tree came to be planted With more than 8,000 Australian Service organised by the Rotary Club courage, mateship and sacrifice ceremonies are held to be very of Templestowe. exemplified in working towards and important and something to be at ACPS. soldiers dying in that campaign, the Eleven years ago, the then Assistant courage and bravery of the Australian Entranced by the significance of the preserving peace. treated with great respect. service, students from across the City Once all floral wreaths were laid, Principal, John Crabb, was given a men shaped what was to become Despite being closed for Anzac Day, of Manningham respectfully watched the Last Post echoed over the site, known as the Anzac spirit. ACPS has a long-standing tradition seed from the Lone Pine that grows as the Australian and New Zealand as students paid solemn respect for of making sure their students take in Gallipoli. “When we rehearsed the speeches, flags flew in unison over the memorial. those lost in battle while they listened the time to learn and reflect on the Planting the seed in a pot, it quickly the students were very mature and They listened solemnly as Corporal respectful to the Anzac Requiem. importance of remembering those grew. sensitive to how important what they who have served their country in the To Mr Crabb’s amazement it were doing was,” she said. name of the peace we are so luckily continued to grow and after two “It was a wonderful ceremony afforded. years he was able to transplant it into and the Last Post always invokes an It is an opportunity for teachers to the ground. emotional reaction from people when build an understanding of the history He planted the tree right next to the they understand the significance.” of Australia’s role in past wars and flagpole where for over twenty years Today the lone pine tree, which what the symbolic meaning of spirit students at ACPS had assembled to leans slightly to the right as it grows, of the Anzacs is. honour the Anzac’s. is over ten metres tall and as students The Junior School Council members The speech, which classroom decorate this tree at Christmas time, it are in charge of the Anzac Day teacher, Miss Evie Fifis, helped the will have new meaning to them. ceremony, which is traditionally held JSC leaders write, gave a history of the As they place their tinsel and by the school flagpole the morning wars the Anzacs had fought and made baubles to celebrate the festive before Anzac Day. reference to the lone pine as a place season, they will hold a thought for While most students knew the use of respect and contemplation for us. those who served and those who of the flag during the ceremony is She says she wanted the students sacrificed so much so we could enjoy symbolic, what many of them did not to get a real sense of the importance our way of life. MAY 2019 Warrandyte Diary 17 Community stars on show at museum By VAL POLLEY John Hipwell was another identified community activist of note who was Sydney Sleek Geek Eureka Prize in HISTORICAL “STARS” are not hard lesser known star despite a lifetime of the winner of the 2010 Eureka Prize 2018 beating many other teams. to find. activity in Warrandyte and beyond. for leadership in innovation. They tested Carl Sagan’s claim that The names of Winston Churchill, He was an architect who initially His prize was to have a rare there are more stars in the sky than Nelson Mandela and Don Bradman worked with Fritz Janeba, a noted bug officially named Macrolema grains of sand on the world’s beaches, instantly spring to mind. European architect. dickdaviesi, in his honour. producing a prize-winning video, But what of Warrandyte historical He designed several significant It was however in identifying Stars beat Sand. stars? Warrandyte houses as well as St Johns younger and newer stars where the More nominations for Warrandyte This question came to the fore Uniting Church which is of State most fun was to be had. TheTeskey stars were sought. when the museum was putting Significance. Brothers are Josh and Sam Teskey Visitors to the museum during together an exhibit on the 2019 One of his North Warrandyte houses who grew up in Warrandyte. the festival period were asked to Warrandyte Festival theme of “Stars recently sold well above its reserve They busked at weekends before nominate people using silver stars of Warrandyte” and led to some after great interest due to its original Josh (lead singer), Sam (lead guitarist) especially provided for the task. interesting historical musings. modernist style. formed the Teskey Brothers band While there were several silly Firstly, what would constitute being John saw WWII service as the in 2008 with long-time friends, bass responses: “my cat” for instance. a “star” in Warrandyte history? Commanding Officer of radar unit 334 player Brendon Love and drummer But, there were also some considered It was decided there had to be strong with the R.A.A.F in Papua New Guinea. Liam Gough. and welcome nominations. Warrandyte community involvement Back in Warrandyte he was the Their debut album in 2017 These include Aboriginal Elder, plus an external component. President and a non-potting Founder (produced in their garage studio Simon Wonga; Don Saunders, Our stars had to not only be strong Member of the well-known and in Warrandyte), Half Mile Harvest, former Director of National Parks in supporters of Warrandyte and the respected Potters Cottage 1958-2003. shares with Clunes the distinction of influenced by blues and soul, received Victoria; Dr Linda Worrell-Carter, local community but also have had He was also a businessman and huge acclaim. a Warrandytian who is a leader in being the first places where gold was entrepreneur. to make their mark outside the local They won Best Emerging Act atThe Women’s Heart Health with her found in the new colony of Victoria. With his wife Betty he ran a sphere. Age’s 2017 Melbourne Music Week foundation Her Heart and Biologist It was also decided that while there Gold provided the very basis on successful import/wholesale business which Warrandyte was founded. for handmade Asian craft goods Awards and they have toured widely Professor Doug Hilton from the are many historical stars no longer around Australia and internationally. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. with us there are many potential stars Some previously somewhat between 1968 and 1989. unrecognised stars were identified. His daughter Pamela still operates In 2019 the band will be on tour in Rachel Lynch, Hockeyroo in the Warrandyte firmament worthy the UK, the USA and Australia. goalkeeper and medal winner; of inclusion. For example, Audrey Cahn, FolkArt in the township today. daughter of Professor Osborne and Many of our featured current stars are Scott (Scotty) James has a wide Cherry Manders, artist and activist; They will be historical stars in the local following. and Alan Croxford, past chairman future after all. Dr Ethel Osborne of Osborne Road. already well-known in the community. Audrey was a biologist & nutritionist. Cliff Green, for instance, is an Scotty grew up in Warrandyte of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Our star journey started with the and was Australia’s youngest male Board of Works were also “starred”. eagle star (Alpha Aquilae) known Along with her siblings she spent internationally known writer for his many childhood times in Warrandyte award-winning screenplays, scripts Olympian at age 15 at the 2010 Winter All of these will require some as Altair. Olympics in Vancouver. further in-depth work to ensure their A Wurundjeri dreamtime story tells and was painted (with her pet and books including the classic He then was flagbearer and half- roles in and out of Warrandyte are how Bunjil the great eagle, creator chicken) by well-known artist Clara Australian film, Picnic at Hanging of the world, was blown into the sky Southern in 1911. Rock. pipe bronze medallist at the 2018 documented for future reference. where he became a star. She was the first woman to complete He is also the founder & editor of Olympic Winter Games in South Any further nominations can be sent Once gazing down upon his people, a BA of Agriculture Science at the award-winning Warrandyte Diary Korea. to [email protected] (only sensible he saw wrongdoing and hurled down Melbourne University in 1928 and and has been a long-term resident & This year he became snowboard ones please). a star to punish them and where the a pioneer in the academic field of activist. superpipe gold medallist at the There are too many stars on display star struck the land it created a gorge. dietetics. Jock Macneish is another well- X-Games in Aspen February 2019 to mention all by name. The name of Warrandyte has long She served in WWII as a Major in known identity. and took out an unprecedented The ‘Stars of Warrandyte’ exhibit been translated as warren to throw Army Medical Women’s Service. A man of multiple talents he is third consecutive halfpipe world at the Warrandyte Museum in Yarra and dyte that which is thrown. She lived in White Cottage in known as an architect and inventor, title in Utah in February 2019. Street is part of the current month- Louis John Michel can also be Osborne Road for many years and cartoonist and illustrator, author A star indeed. long Australian Heritage/National considered a star. wrote her book University Children and business consultant as well as Two more rising stars are students Trust Festival. His discovery of gold in 1851 literally in 1987. community activist and long-term from Warrandyte High School, Owen She was also part of the local The museum is open between 1:30 put the township on the map. resident. Kelly and Abby Hambleton who and 4:30pm every Saturday and Andersons Creek (later Warrandyte) artistic scene with her paintings and Dick Davies is another prolific took third place in the University of sculptures. Sunday. 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The real Queen of Warrandyte What a weekend! By BRIONY BOTTARELLI At 49, invited by the Eltham Concert Jo has found her place in the world of THE FIRST weekend in May was a the Kellybrook Cider Festival. LONG-TIME LOCAL gal, Jo Pearson, band conductor Barry McKimm, Jo music. huge weekend for Warrandyte with TheDiary team were busy working was thrilled to be asked to perform at did her first solo singing concerts Keep your eye out for the amazing locals and tourists flocking to the (with a pinch of playing), visiting this year’s festival, along with talented presenting a variety of all-time CD Jo, Gary & the Pearl River Ramblers area to sample the delights of the the Kellybrook Cider Festival and musicians Gary Young, Andy Scott, favourites specially arranged for her are producing and here’s hoping we Warrandyte Riverside Market, Artists Open Studios and will have Mark Lowrie and Michelle Johns, voice. see them at future festivals and events. Nillumbik Artists Open Studio and full coverage next month. who form her band the Pearl River On her 50th birthday she performed Ramblers. at the RSL in her first country band. Starting out young, Jo has taken her This started an ongoing monthly event self-taught singing & playing of guitar under Jo’s guidance, featuring different to the professional standard it is today bands and enticing many newcomers in singing, playing & teaching. to fabulous, musical Sunday afternoons Jo has enjoyed a wide a varied career at the RSL. being involved with many groups, This tradition continues today and for including the yearly Follies at the 11 years gave Jo the opportunity to mix Warrandyte Theatre Company doing and sing with a variety of musicians. this for six consecutive years 1999- Jo’s warm vocal ability and stage 2006. presence is a joy to be seen, heard From age 15 to 20 years old, she and felt. played in local Rock & Roll bands, but She accompanies herself on acoustic on becoming a mum she let her singing guitar over a wide range of genres. Folk, take second place until she was in Country, Roots & Blues, along with her 40’s when she decided to join the popular standard songs. Eltham College Adult Choir. She has also written some beautiful, Here she even managed to sing original songs and is looking forward Vivaldi in Latin. to collaborating with her long-time When this choir concluded, Jo moved muso friend Gary Young to produce a to Warrandyte’s Bellbird Singers where CD — of his and her very own original she enjoyed singing for 17 years in songs — with the backing of the Pearl conjunction with a-cappella singers River Ramblers. Women of Notes for 12 years. With this talented group of musicians, 18 Warrandyte Diary MAY 2019

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Event: Open Mic Event: Simon Wonga — His Life Journey When: Thursday, May 9, 6:30pm–9pm When: Friday, May 24, 7:30pm–9:30pm Where: Warrandyte RSL, 113 Brackenbury Street, Warrandyte Where: Warrandyte Community Centre Info: Bring your talent to the monthly Open Mic session Info: Join Reconciliation Manningham in a special Reconciliation Week event. Event: Mother’s Day Floristry Workshop When: Starts Saturday, May 11, 2pm–4:30pm Event: Friday Night Drinks — End of Vintage Party Where: Warrandyte Neighbourhood House When: Friday, May 14, 5pm–10pm Info: $55 (includes box, tray, oasis and ribbon; please bring Where: Rob Dolan Wines, 21 Delaneys Rd, Warrandyte South your own flowers and greenery — see website or call for details). Info: Live music and food available from The Farm Yarra Make a very special gift for your mother, whilst learning a new Valley. Food and drink available at bar prices. Free event but skill and having fun. Create your own beautiful boxed floral bookings required at www.trybooking.com/BBUZN arrangement. Event: Candle Making Workshop with Froza Katsis Event: My Leonard Cohen When: Saturday, May 25, 1–4pm When: Saturday, May 11, 8pm–9:30pm Where: Warrandyte Neighbourhood House Where: Karralyka Centre, Mines Road, Ringwood East Info: $85 (includes all materials, value of $50). Learn how to Info: Tickets $55. www.karralyka.com.au make your own deliciously fragranced soy candles. All materials included. Event: Mother’s Day Classic Lilydale When: Sunday, May 12, 8am–12pm Event: The Beatlez at the RSL Where: Lilydale Lake, Swansea Road, Lilydale When: Sunday, May 26, from 4pm Info: A fun run or walk to raise money for National Where: Warrandyte RSL, 113 Brackenbury Street, Warrandyte Breast Cancer Foundation. Tickets available from Info: Sing and dance to your favourite Beatles tunes. www.mothersdayclassic.com.au. Event: Yarra Valley VIEW Club Lunch Event: Mother’s Day at Rob Dolan Wines When: Tuesday, May 28, 12pm When: Sunday, May 12, 10am–2pm Where: Yering Meadows Golf Club Where: Rob Dolan Wines, 21 Delaneys Rd, Warrandyte South Info: Make, bake and grow fundraiser. Contact Wendy on Info: Free entry but bookings required. 0438 625 556 for more info. www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=493163 Event: Messy Play Mondays Event: Menzies Human Rights Forum When: Monday, June 3, 11:30–12:30pm When: Monday, May 13, 7pm–8:30pm Where: Warrandyte Neighbourhood House Where: Eltham Library Multipurpose Room Info: $13 per session. Squish, squelch, splash, drop, smear, Info: Q&A-style forum with the candidates of Menzies. Find toss, spray and ooze. Enjoy the fun and benefits of messy play out where they stand on issues around human rights, including without the clean-up. A facilitated playgroup. treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, LGBTIQ+ equality, Indigenous rights and racism. Event: Making Sense of the Senses Workshop When: Monday, June 3, 7pm–9pm Event: Film Society — The Girl King Where: Warrandyte Community Church When: Friday, May 17, 7pm for 7:30pm start Info: Spectrum Journeys provide a workshop that will give Where: Warrandyte Neighbourhood House practical strategies to help understand the sensory system. Tickets Info: Sign up for annual membership. Nibbles prior to film, from $15. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/59801961276 coffee and conversation afterwards. Wine is sold by the glass. DVD’s available to hire, free of charge to members. Friendly social Event: Women’s Local Day Out group. Come along and meet new people. When: Wednesday, June 5, 9am Where: Various location around Wonga Park Event: World Bee Day Info: The day of fun and friendship allows women to discover When: Saturday, May 18, 1–4pm something about their local community and about themselves. WARRANDYTE Where: Warrandyte Neighbourhood House The event is also a fundraiser for Wonga Park CFA. Info: 15$ (adults). Help us celebrate World Bee Day as you Tickets for this fabulous fun day cost $60 which includes lunch GLASS learn about all things Bee. Includes a presentation with a live at a local winery and are available at Trybooking.com/BBMNM All types of demonstration hive. Warrandyte Diary What’s On guide would Carter Art glass, glazing, Event: Recycling & Upcycling Sale not be possible without the contribution Artistry in Iron mirrors, shower When: Saturday, May 18, 10am–12pm from the In Your Backyard Facebook Where: Warrandyte Uniting Church, Taroona Avenue Group. Functional products with Info: 0418 507 480 or 9844 3830. Recycle: TVs, CDs, computers artistic qualities – hand screens For more events across the Yarra Valley rails, screens, gates, house and accessories, ink cartridges, mobile phones, spectacles, Search for @IYBinyourbackyard on hardware, handmade to Terry Ryan stamps, bras, light globes, household batteries (not car batteries Facebook your design or mine or electrical items), materials, buttons, stationary and more. See 9879 0373 www.riverflow.com.au. Upcycle: New or used unwanted goods. or Furniture, electrical appliances, books, plants and more. Get a 0418NEIL 357CARTER 282 Mobile: 0418 369 294 bargain and save our landfill. Event: Australian Bee Gees Show Local markets When: Saturday, May 18, 8pm–10pm Where: Karralyka Centre, Mines Road, Ringwood East Eltham Farmers’ Market Wonga Park Farmers’ Info: Tickets: $52.70 available from www.karralyka.com.au Every Sunday Market 9am – 1pm Saturday, May 25 Event: Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea Eltham Town Hall, 9am–2pm When: Wednesday, May 22, 10:30am–11:30am Arthur Street, Eltham Wonga Park Primary, Where: Wonga Park Community Cottage, 41 Dudley Road, Wonga Park Unit 1, 9–13 Old Yarra Road, Wonga Park Park Orchards Market Info: Everyone welcome to help raise funds for cancer Saturday, May 18 Eltham Farmers’ Market Andrew John research. Phone: 9722 1944 for details. 9am – 1pm Food Swap Managing Director Park Orchards Primary, Sunday, May 26 1-3 Bowmore Avenue, 9:30am – 10:30am Park Orchards Eltham Town Hall, ‘We cover all areas of painting and decorating’ Tel: 9844 1839 Arthur Street, Eltham Email: [email protected] Eltham Craft and p: 0412 765 210 e: [email protected] Website: Produce Market Warrandyte warrandyteneighbourhoodhouse.org.au Sunday, May 19 Riverside Market Member of Master Painters Association No. 3993 8:30am–1pm Saturday, June 1 Ring or Email for a No Obligation Free Quote Alistair Knox Park, 8am–1pm Eltham Stiggants Reserve

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Call Damien for a quote on 0438 537 773, 9844 2287 20 Warrandyte Diary MAY 2019 WHS Year 7 Camp at Halls Gap WARRANDYTE HIGH School recently returned from their Year 7 camp at Halls Gap. The students sent the Diary extracts from their own diaries which they kept on the trip. Dear diary, backwards”. Today was an interesting day. I woke up at 6:30am to get In my head, I said to myself, “are you crazy?” ready to go to camp. Therefore, I did what he said: I was so nervous. The bus drive was fun and we were all chatty. I took a few steps backwards, freaking out. We arrived at the camp called Roses Gap Recreation Centre. However, it was amazing! It was a beautiful view and looked The area was full of native trees and animals. amazing. Wallabies and kangaroos were everywhere and kookaburras I slowly stepped down until I reached the bottom. were flying around….. Along the way there were a few drops that I freaked out on Jen, Year 7 but I think I did pretty well considering. Kim, Year 7 Roses Gap Recreation Centre was covered in tons of trees and dry grass, and all the cabins were spread out around a Year 7 camp was great. Musica Viva camp fire. I had a really fun time. By KIRSTY WOLTERS and a steaming locomotive. We found out our activity groups and cabins and most of I enjoyed all the awesome and cool activities like the giant RECENTLY Warrandyte Primary During Performing Arts classes the day was dedicated to being excited for the next few days swing, abseiling, crate stacking, bushwalking, canoeing and School students from Prep to Year 6 this term, students prepared for the when we would do all the activities. archery. enjoyed participating in the woodwind incursion by engaging in a range of My cabin and activity group were a lot better than they had All of my friends in my cabin were really funny and nice. been in previous camps. It was a fantastic experience and I enjoyed their company. incursion, The Air I Breathe. activities, including using their own We had schnitzel for dinner which was good but Georgia We did all of our fun activities in groups. Eliza, Lloyd and Matthew from breath to create a wind orchestra, kept putting the idea in our heads, “It is too good to be true”. Everyone supported and cheered everyone on, especially Musica Viva demonstrated how, performing and conducting three- Later that night we found out some horrible news… if the activity was challenging. through musical instruments, the note compositions, singing melodies to accompany The Great Train Race someone in our cabin snores! We made sure everyone felt safe and happy. human body can harness the power Jemma, Year 7 Luca, Year 7 of air and use it to express our identity and creating their own flowing in a unique way. choreography to Ravel’s Mother Goose OMG, two important things are happening! At night time we had a lot of amazing activities to do like The students loved being introduced Suite from Beauty and The Beast. First, it is Teha’s Birthday and she is turning 12 years old. going to Bob’s Shed, a shed full of activities including table to the clarinet, bassoon and flute as After the incursion James, from Year Second, it is the last day of camp. tennis, chess, large mats to do front flips and backflips and they magically conjured up a rainy 1, announced with a broad grin, “It However, today’s activity was going to be interesting. just gym stuff. day in bed, a fairy tale world beyond was so much fun! I can’t wait to learn It was going to be fun but the nerves got the better of me. There were also board games to play with friends or imagination, the God of the East Wind the flute now!” We are going Abseiling! teachers. I was shaking, and guess what? On the other nights there was trivia to play and a fire where When the instructor, Tyrone, said, “Who wants to go third?” you could roast marshmallows and talk about the day I put my hand up! In conclusion, the year 7 Warrandyte High School camp I was the first girl going abseiling in my group. was a really amazing time and a good way to make new There was a 30 m drop off the cliff. friends and get to know the teachers. I was so scared, and Tyrone just kept saying, “Lean Kyan, Year 7

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I have notepads to help me plan my themselves. ones that will be woken with a hug After the planning and buying comes week and silk flowers glued onto pegs Setting up a and a kiss by an excited child, spouting the hours of wrapping and ribbon that decorate my fridge. standing camp words of love and eagerly asking if I’d tying. There is the bright pink and white to live in for like to have my breakfast in bed. Each gift is made to look grand, plastic coffee mug emblazoned with four days, putting up their tents, My first thought will be of crumbs in pretty bows get tied around cellophane “I love Mum”, that holds the pens on establishing a kitchen, building camp the sheets but I will push that aside and wrapped notebooks and mugs are my desk — it didn’t stand up to the infrastructure, cooking their own as the family head off to the kitchen filled with chocolates. challenge of travelling with hot coffee meals, keeping their campsite clean to fix a tray of croissants and jam, I The Mother’s Day Stall is a stand out — and the heart-shaped jewellery box and tidy – with no adult supervision. will jump up quickly and race to the event at most primary schools, just that sits beside my bed. “Impossible” you say, well not if you bathroom, diving back into bed before check out the faces of the Prep kids This annual event is a rite of passage are a Warrandyte Scout. I’m discovered to be missing in action. as they file past tables filled with a through the primary school years and Each year Scouts Victoria holds the With a stack of pillows behind my huge assortment of pretty gifts while many mothers and grandmothers will Stradbroke Cup, where scouts from back and a smoothed down doona, clutching a few coins in their hands. receive a little something this Mother’s across Victoria compete to see who it will be one of those quintessential Some walk up and down unable to Day because a few good women stayed are the most skilled at independent moments of parenting as I balance a choose, others seem to know in a flash up late in the night to make sure our camping. tray on my lap and try not to spill my just what Mum will love, and those little treasures have something to give. Our scouts left Warrandyte Thursday cup of tea. friendly, smiling helpers behind the So thanks and Happy Mother’s Day afternoon, finding their way to Geelong At my feet will be a stack of presents, tables will gently coach anyone who to the mothers that make our Mother’s by train, overnighting in a scout hall each gift bearing the tell-tale signs of is overwhelmed while they restack the Day special. in Geelong then bus to Brucknell being wrapped by a child — the tape in south-western Victoria for the not quite holding and the paper not commencement of the competition quite fitting — and I won’t be the only on Friday. one excited about what they contain. Adults camped about half a kilometer Balanced on top of the pile will be a away and each patrol of six scouts handmade card that, a few days later, was assessed on their ability to will join the stack in my bottom drawer. independently establish and maintain This same picture will play out in a standing camp. many households around the country Stradbroke “Advisors” guided and on that particular Sunday morning assessed each patrol’s camping and it is all thanks to a time-honoured competency. venture — the Mother’s Day Stall. Establishing your campsite only In every primary school across the takes so long however, so, as well as country, an energetic volunteer has the competition, the camp comes spent the last few months scrolling fully loaded with adventurous and fun through websites, ordering from activities such as crate stacking, where catalogues and tweaking spreadsheets. scouts see how high they can get before The Mother’s Day Stall is serious the tower of crates under them comes business. crashing down and “bang” which It takes hours of planning to make involves scouts, sledge hammers and sure there are enough gifts for each an old car, you get the picture. child to choose from, balancing cost- Monday morning saw the dismantling covering with quantity and trying to and pack up of the camp, presentation consider quality when the endgame of awards — silver for both our patrols is dealt in gold coins. — and the long trip back to Warrandyte It’s not just about what gifts to have for 12 very tired scouts.

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Not because he was Billibilleri’s In February 1859, Wonga received The demise of Pound Bend, Woori- By JIM POULTER son, but because his innate ability, information that a settler in the Upper Yallock and Acheron had shown character and knowledge made him Goulburn had abandoned his run. him he would get nothing from the I HAVE WRITTEN before about how the standout choice. Wonga knew it was prime land, so parliamentarians. Simon Wonga developed a plan for However, Wonga did not feel he he led a deputation of Elders to see the So he went over their heads. On May the survival of the Kulin people in was ready, so in 1846 the leadership Aboriginal Protector William Thomas. 24, 1863, which was Queen Victoria’s the 1840s. passed to Billibelleri’s younger The deputation also included my birthday, Wonga led an Aboriginal This was for them to learn brother Berberry. great-great-grandfather’s friend, deputation to Government House. agricultural and stock mustering skills When the government approved Murrum-Murrum. They presented gifts of woven in order to establish an economic the establishment of an Aboriginal Thomas got approval for them to baskets, artefacts and possum skin base in the new world they faced. Reserve at Pound Bend in October claim the land, so Wonga, Barak and rugs to Sir Henry Barkley for ‘The Wonga organised the last ever Kulin 1850, Wonga decided he was ready others left Melbourne, to establish Good Queen Mother’ and the just Nation corroboree in 1852 and gave for leadership. Acheron Station in March 1859. married Prince of Wales. his people the opportunity to play all Berberry willingly stepped aside and They were later joined by Reverend Then Wonga presented a petition their traditional games and thereby Wonga then began activating his plan. Green and others from Woori Yallock. for the land at Coranderrk. say goodbye to tribal life. Unfortunately, gold was discovered Over the next two years, Wonga Immediately afterward Sir Henry I have also told the story of how at Warrandyte in 1851 which Photo: CARL WALTER and the Kulin people made a great summoned the government leader Wonga Park got its name, in tribute compromised the viability of the success of the venture, but they were and told him in no uncertain terms to Wonga’s stock mustering skills and Reserve at Pound Bend. ultimately cheated out of the land by that if the grant of land was not made charismatic leadership. A new Reserve was consequently Wonga was therefore able to get contract work for Aboriginal people neighbouring squatters Hugh Glass immediately, ‘the Queen would not He was a great man, and to me declared at Woori-Yallock, only for and Peter Snodgrass. Simon Wonga stands alongside Sir on farms up the Plenty and Yarra be happy’. gold to be found there as well. Glass, a land speculator, was the The result was that a month later John Monash as the two greatest However, the meagre gold at valleys. Wonga in fact won the contract richest man in Victoria and Snodgrass the land grant at Coranderrk was duly Victorians in our State’s history. Warrandyte and Woori Yallock was a Parliamentarian, so draw your own Perhaps you might agree with me to build the first public house in approved. soon vastly overshadowed by the conclusions. Over the next decade Coranderrk when you hear a brief account of how discoveries at Ballarat and Bendigo. Warrandyte. It is a pity his name is not The Kulin were forced onto bleak became socially and economically he secured a government grant of Curiously, the Ballarat and Bendigo and inhospitable land near Cathedral land to establish Coranderrk Station commemorated in some way at the the most successful Mission in gold discoveries turned out to be an Mountain, where people started Australian history, until Wonga died at Healesville in 1863. advantage to Wonga’s plans. present day Warrandyte pub. dying like flies. in 1874. It was an achievement against With workers deserting their With the disbandment of the Native all odds that showed his strategic Police in 1853, William Barak joined So in early 1863, Wonga, Barak and So to me, May 24 is not Empire employment and flooding to the Green led the remnants of their group brilliance. goldfields, it inadvertently drove up Wonga at Wonga Park, where they met Day, it is Wonga Day and it should Wonga’s father Billibelleri was the Reverend John Green who had across the Great Dividing Range, via be fittingly celebrated as the start of Aboriginal work opportunities and the Black’s Spur Songline, to present Headman of the five Kulin tribes from wages. arrived in 1858. Reconciliation Week each year. Manningham Reconciliation Week community events Hands up for JOIN WITH Reconciliation and visionary Simon Wonga. Young family – Lyn-Al, Robert, Judith, Nation Peoples for Reconciliation Manningham in a special Although best known for having Richard and Raymond. Week by holding a special therapeutic against all odds established The exhibition will reflect on notions laughter class. reconciliation Reconciliation Week events Coranderrk in 1863, he also organised of honesty, openness, and truth. Facilitated by broadcaster, comedian MANNINGHAM Council is seeking supporting the national theme the last ever Kulin Nation corroboree In particular, it will pose questions and personal development advocate expressions of interest from community for 2019 Grounded in Truth: Walk (the first Warrandyte Festival) at about which and whose truths we Tracy Bartram, Laughter Class is a fun- members and organisations to sit on Pound Bend in 1852. listen to, and prompt dialogue around filled evening from the moment you the Manningham Reconciliation Together with Courage. He also won the contract to build the perspectives on history. It will also are greeted with a welcoming cuppa. Action Plan (RAP) Working Group. first pub in Warrandyte in 1854, and explore the process of collaborating After the success of her Harmony Nominations are sought from then had a suburb named after him! and working together and/or amongst Day Laughter Class, which followed individuals and organisations with Warrandyte Community Centre, one another, how a collective past the Christchurch atrocity, she was a connection to Manningham and a Friday, May 24, 7:30pm–9:30pm. is reflected in artwork done today inspired to hold one in Reconciliation commitment to reconciliation. Contact Jim Poulter to book on and how the production of art can Week. Reconciliation is about building 9842 5398 or be a conduit for understanding and Tracy says Laughter Class is a way to positive relationships between Simon Wonga —His Life Journey [email protected] healing. connect in a gentle and joyful way, in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Grounded in Truth — exhibition For more info or to RSVP to the a supportive and loving environment and other Australians, for the benefit Through the medium of an official opening, email: at the sweet Wonga Park Community of all Australians. innovative digital mapping program Exploring diverse themes from [email protected] Cottage. The working group will support being developed by Reconciliation identity to postcolonial theory Manningham Art Gallery, MC Square, Wurundjerri elder Auntie Joy the development, endorsement and Manningham, you will follow in the and feminism to street culture, Wednesday, May 22–Saturday, Wandin Murphy will be performing implementation of Manningham footsteps of the famed local Aboriginal Manningham Art Gallery’s annual June 22, 11am–5pm. Free entry, a traditional smoking ceremony Council’s RAP. leader Simon Wonga, as he makes his National Reconciliation Week official opening, Friday, May 24, and sharing some of her indigenous The expressions of interest period life journey through time and across Exhibition proudly showcases the 10am–12pm wisdom on this special night. closes 5pm Tuesday, May 21, 2019. the landscape. unique voices of contemporary Those who would like to get involved Laughter Class Wonga Park Community Cottage, 13 Following a Welcome to Country by Indigenous artists from across Victoria. Old Yarra Road, Wednesday, May in Manningham Council’s RAP a Wurundjeri Elder learn about the life Grounded in Truth, will feature five Wonga Park Community Cottage 29, 7pm–9pm. $35 per person, phone Working Group can visit: and achievements of the charismatic artists from two generations of the will embrace the essence of our First 9722 1944 to book your place. manningham.vic.gov.au/rap MAY 2019 Warrandyte Diary 23

Ask Carolyn Here’s looking at you My husband and I are thinking of going to Morocco. We want to see all the sights and experience the food and the people but we don’t want to do a standard coach tour. What do you suggest? Sandra, Warranwood Hold on to your dreams So many people are asking me about Morocco these days! Taking that trip of a lifetime is crushed and I was devastated. would choke on my own tears my heart was I think it’s because its time has come — Moroccan My husband had no idea why I was so actually aching. design and Moroccan food are really in vogue this year. something that some people depressed for days. Eventually the tears came through and I And it’s so close to Europe. Many months later, we were sitting by the sobbed as it came into view. Anybody visiting Europe can easily include Morocco in plan on for many, many years. river and the other teacher that had travelled I was now 56 years old. their plans because you can fly into Casablanca from all None moreso than colourful to South America came walking by and It had taken me 40 years to realize the over Europe. conversations of course turned to Machu dreams of that young troubled girl. Or you can fly there fairly directly from Australia via Dubai Warrandyte identity, CORALIE Picchu and her experiences. I walked in that main gate and hubby said: or Abu Dhabi. SOUVATZIS, who found that I told her how devastated I was that I “where are you racing to? it’s only 6am!!” Morocco is a safe country to travel in but it can be would never see it and she said to me: “why I said: “exactly, now follow me and hurry!!” challenging in places where there isn’t much in the way of travel dreams do come true. do you say that” and I recounted to her the I knew exactly where we were going. public transport, and I wouldn’t recommend a self-drive as comments made previously to me and she In through the main gate, turn left head up driving conditions are totally unlike ours. Childhood circumstances lead me to a lot said: “rubbish, you can get around easily the stairs to reach the top before the sun rose It’s the perfect destination for a tour, and there are great of wrong decisions as a teenager that ended enough if you take your time, take it easy and over Machu Picchu in the valley below and alternatives to a coach tour. up with me, at age 16, being placed in a girl’s hubby helps you, you will be fine”. that’s exactly what we did. There are small group tours where you would travel around home for my own protection. I nearly fell over as tears welled and my I guess the moral to my story is “If you in a group of up to twelve like-minded travellers, being shown Whilst I was in this place, to amuse myself husband just looked at me and I said to him have a dream in your heart hold onto to it around by a local tour leader who will be with you all the way. and pass the time l would walk around to “Maybe my dream has returned!” no matter how long it takes to come true, Local tour leaders are really passionate and proud of the library and it was there I first read about I had seen Machu Picchu in my mind so it is your dream and don’t be so quick to their country, they’re fantastic at being able to teach you Machu Picchu and the lives of the Inca and a many times I knew I wanted to enter the give it up!” everything you need to know about the culture and its dream was born in this troubled heart. main gates, turn left and head up the hill to people, and they can introduce you to local experiences, the Firstly I couldn’t believe they allowed no the Sun gate, before sunrise to see it bathe likes of which you can’t organise by yourself. emotion in the family especially from the Machu Picchu far below (this is where the A lot more people are going for small group travel and children; I was an emotional wreck at the best walkers come out from their Inca Trail hike). sustainable travel these days. of times, and secondly I discovered they ate We left the riverside and I now had a spring You stay in smaller hotels with a lot of local character, you with utensils made of gold. in my step, dreams will do that to you. eat in local restaurants and you interact much more with I visited this library in Hawthorn, near the My husband looked at me and said: “well the local community. girls’ home many times and dreamed one what about it!” and I said: “what about what!” Itineraries can run from eight to twenty days in duration, day of standing in this magical place that and he said: “well, do you want to go or not!” but I think an itinerary of around two weeks is just right, transported me into my escapist world. This time I really started to cry. allowing you enough time to see all the main sights and to Though I was young, l became friends with ‘REALLY?!’ I shrieked. experience Morocco comprehensively. the librarian and she encouraged my love of “Yup, why not, we are more financially The main highlights are the medina cities of Fes and all things ancient and Incan and led me to stable now and the kids are now married Marrakech, which have beautiful architecture and ancient, other resources and often had books ready and settled let’s walk back into town and get narrow streets. for me when I arrived. some brochures” A walking tour will take you through bustling markets, Always in the back of my mind was my Much to his surprise and mine I have never not to mention opportunities to buy Moroccan leather and dream of standing at Machu Picchu. walked so fast anywhere before or since. colourful ceramics, bags and jewellery. In 2011, I was working at a school and a The trip was booked for the following year. A trip out to the edge of the Sahara desert is fun too, where few of the teachers were travelling to South I re-read all the history books I could, I you get the chance to ride on camels out into the dunes and America and — you guessed it — amongst obtained a lot of old copies of the National spend the night in a traditional desert camp, a truly unique their plans was a visit to my beloved Machu Geographic magazines, I researched the experience. Picchu. internet and drove my husband insane with A few days exploring the Atlas mountains will take you When they returned, one had a Peruvian information, so much so he said “I don’t through glorious scenery and ruined kasbahs that look like doll for me and many stories and I cried as need to go any more there is nothing I am an exotic film set straight out of an Indiana Jones movie. I listened to her and looked at her pictures, going to find new about this place!” Many itineraries end in Marrakech, which has a central but she told me I probably wouldn’t be able So I wisely shut up. square that is a hive of activity by day but really comes to to go because there are just SO many stairs We arrived in Peru in June. life at night. and with my dicky knees I would never be My heart ached as I boarded the 5:30am A farewell dinner in a café overlooking the square is the able to make it. bus for the trip from Aquas Calientas to the perfect way to end your Moroccan adventure. There and then I felt something in me fade main gates and as the bus zigzagged its way I’m sure you’ll discover why so many people want to go and my dream died. up the hill. to Morocco! A dream I had held dear to my heart that I had to put my hand over my mouth to Our travel expert Carolyn Allen is manager of Warrandyte had sustained me through so much was stop myself from sobbing and I thought I Travel and Cruise. Contact her on 9844 2477 or [email protected] 24 Warrandyte Diary MAY 2019 Plant extinctions in front of your eyes of extinction. annual rainfall is lower than average. in my bush garden revealed 47 per river community plants specially Furthermore, another 21 per cent of In particular rainfall has failed to cent had died since 1985, across a manna gums, which are killed by nature species fall into the next level down fall in the crucial March to June (early wide demographic and especially even a “cool” fire. on the threat scale (“Endangered”) winter) period. during 2005. As most manna gums have weedy By GLEN JAMESON and 17 per cent fall into the third These early winter rains normally The interplay between occupation grasses growing stopping their (“Vulnerable”) level. break the summer drought, by bellbirds and/or noisy miners, regeneration, any wildfire could be ALTHOUGH a relatively small The total number of threatened replenishing bushlands and the long Millennium Drought, over catastrophic to the river landscape geographic area, the Middle Yarra species is 466, representing 82 regenerating productivity. population of brushtail possums and as we know it. area supports a surprising richness per cent of all indigenous species, Winter rains have also been the lerp, Spondyliaspis plicatuloides Plants are the basis of the ecosystem. of biodiversity that includes species, according to the report. insufficient to replenish the water was also deadly for eucalypts across All the mammals, insects and birds genetic and ecosystem diversity. If current trends continue, scores of table and with the warming climate, the local landscape. rely on them for their continued However, under the stress of a plant species could become extinct in everything is vulnerable especially Warrandyte State Park does existence and how plants fare in changing climate, plant species in Manningham over the next decade when short, sharp, snap droughts put not escape these processes with the coming decades may determine local bushlands are facing extinctions or so — far more than have become real pressure on plants. indigenous plants that were long their fate. at an unprecedented rate. extinct in any other period since Fire is the crucial tool for term remnants of “cooler, wetter The critical landscape issue after Historical palaeobotanical records European settlement. regeneration and overall health of the climates” — normally found growing the use of fire for the protection of show that rapid environmental Changes to the local climate are local bushlands, but has hit a hurdle in foothills and mountains — biodiversity is the management of changes typically cause mass bringing on snap drought conditions with the dry early winter period. disappearing. private land. extinctions. and abrupt seasonal changes which Normally prescribed burning Blanket-leaf has become extinct, It doesn’t matter what public land Global Warming is considered to affect the health of flora and fauna — occurs after summer and the rains elderberry panax disappearing, managers do to manage weeds or feral be a major potential threat to global which have adapted to drought, but of early winter follow up and grow hard tree ferns dying out in Wild Cat animals or regeneration, if private biodiversity. not rapidly changing climates. the new seedlings. Gully. mistletoe plants, important land is not managed sympathetically, A scientific report found that of Climate change is progressing Without this rainfall, fire regenerated biodiversity generators killed as less then the local bushlands will struggle the 584 indigenous plant species today at least 30 times faster than at seedlings are substantially less ground water is available to trees. to survive. recorded within Manningham’s any time during the past 2.6 million successful in surviving. Messmates and red stringybarks Cooperative land management boundaries, 19 are extinct and 246 years (T.Flannery 2018). Fire is losing its crucial management dying off. across public and private land can species (or 42 per cent) fall into the Rainfall is the dynamic ecological role as an important age-old tool. Changes to fire intensity and protect our reserves and Parks for “Critically Endangered” level of risk driver and over the past 25 years In 2014 a survey of the Eucalypts frequency will in particular threaten the long term. The heritage of our bridge By DON HUGHES Warrandyte Bridge was built at a cost in 1919 and totally submerged by FAMOUS SELF-TAUGHT Australian of £880 in 1861. floods for three days in 1934). artist, Commodore Dacre Smyth AO It only survived until 1863, when The Bridge was then replaced by the (son of distinguished British General, the Yarra suffered its worst floods Country Roads Board in 1955 with a Sir Nevill Smyth VC), focused on on record and the centre span of the £75,000 concrete structure. painting ships, the sea and water Bridge was washed away. This is the backbone of our currently scenes. Not until 1875 was a new bridge upgraded Bridge by VicRoads The 1991 third edition of his book, built by the Eltham Shire, at a cost of (including a third vehicle lane & The Bridges of The Yarra, includes £1,413 from yellow-box timber cut pedestrian pathways) in 2018/9. paintings of 61 bridges along the locally. Our Bridge continues to provide Yarra. For eighty years it survived, enjoying a vital conduit for our wonderful Our Bridge, was one of his amazing the (undeserved) reputation of never community. works. having to close for repairs (it was Image: Warrandyte Bridge, August The earliest incarnation of the closed for maintenance for six weeks 1978 by Dacre Smyth

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Harriet Glover (in green) Harrison Kerr (pink) running his heat at the Stawell Gift Feeling SAD? Beat the Winter Blues Feeling less than enthused about the According to Grant Blashki, Beyond blues” there are some things we can Just 30 minutes a day under the light colder nights is common, but feeling Blue’s Lead Clinical Adviser, the main do to help can significantly improve your mood. very, very bleak during Winter might theory is that a lack of sunlight might Try going outside more often — ask If you think it’s too cold to exercise mean you’re suffering from SAD. stop a part of the brain called the a friend or family member to rug up outdoors, you’ll still get some great What could it be? hypothalamus working properly. with you and go for a walk. benefits from exercising indoors. Sunlight affects our hormones, but It can be a challenge to brave the Dull winter skin gets a rosy glow SAD, or “seasonal affective disorder”, some people are more susceptible thanks to increased circulation, has a seasonal pattern — you’re fine cold temperatures and go for a run than others. or simply drive to the gym, especially digestion gets moving, metabolism during the warmer months, but as the Lack of sunlight can mean our bodies is stoked and your permanently chilly cold closes in, life feels too hard and all when you could stay all warm and produce less melatonin, the hormone toasty under a comfy blanket. hands and feet warm up too — it’s you want is hot buttered toast in bed that tells your body it is time for sleep. called the thermic effect of exercise! with a Netflix marathon. But exercise is proven to improve Less sun could also mean less your mood, make you feel more Even better, your mind feels awake What are the symptoms? serotonin, a hormone that affects positive and even boost your energy and alert — thanks to a greater supply fitness Just like depression — feeling mood, appetite and sleep. by increasing the feel-good chemicals of oxygen — while your joints are less hopeless, lacking energy, changes in Finally, sunlight affects our body’s in your brain stiff, and your muscles are more supple By CHRIS SHARP sleeping or eating patterns and a loss internal clock (circadian rhythm) — so If you see the sun, run outside and after a spell of regular movement. of pleasure in things you might enjoy lower sunlight levels during the winter try to get some of it on your skin (if you Indoor or out, there is a great sense I THOUGHT this would be an are all symptoms of SAD. can throw off your body clock. can and it’s not too cold). of accomplishment to be gained interesting topic to touch on this With SAD, you may also feel heavy Let’s see if we can overcome those A lack of enough sunlight can trigger from winter exercise workouts — month as I know I suffer from the in your limbs, you might want to winter blues anxiety and depression. perhaps because it’s so much harder “Winter Blues”. sleep all the time, including through Increasing your exposure to sunlight to motivate yourself to get out there your alarm, and carbohydrates are SAD is very rare in Australia and and do it when the weather is cold The only thing I like about winter is more likely to be found in countries — taking a walk in the morning, putting fashion and football. becoming your best friend. your desk near an open window — can and dark. with shorter days and longer periods When you do achieve it, you feel so For some though, it could be What causes SAD? help improve depressive symptoms. of darkness, such as in the cold climate much better. something more. Although more research is needed areas of the Northern Hemisphere. If sunlight is not an option because When the weather gets colder, into the cause, medical professionals If you do think you suffer from SAD, of the weather or where you live, the nights seem longer and your think that it’s related to lack of sunlight then you’re first stop should be at consider getting a light box, which Chris Sharp owns and operates motivation to get out and about can during the shorter autumn and winter your GP. simulates sunlight and helps regulate rivvaPT at 4-5/266 Yarra St seem to constantly evade you. days. If like me, you suffer the “winter the brain chemicals that affect mood. Warrandyte 0419 553 058 26 Warrandyte Diary MAY 2019 Pascoe puts pens down after decades of service BY JOSH HUNTLY “The club’s part of my life. AFTER 43 YEARS of faithful service “I’ve seen a lot of those kids grow to the Warrandyte Cricket Club, long- up — a lot of them weren’t even born time 1st XI scorer and club volunteer when I first started there — it’s been Ann Pascoe has decided to pack away good, but it’s time to give it up.” her signature coloured pens and step However, the end of an era doesn’t away from official club duties. necessarily mean the end of Ann’s One of the Warrandyte community’s involvement with the club, stating that longest serving sports volunteers, she still intends to watch her beloved Ann’s combined years of service firsts on a Saturday afternoon, taking between Norwood and Warrandyte a deserved break tallies up to five decades. “It’s not like I’m not going to be For 43 years, Warrandyte’s 1st XI around the club, I just don’t want enjoyed immaculate scorebooks to sit for six hours and score and thanks to Pascoe’s signature concentrate for however many overs. coloured pens and impeccably neat I still want to be involved — I just handwriting, along with the use of want to sit there and watch them play.” her own symbols for ducks, wides, leg An extract from the RDCA Annual byes, et cetera. Report of 2001/2002 remarked that: Her involvement with the club “It is unlikely there would be many began in 1977, when husband, Steve scorers throughout the cricket world Pascoe crossed from Norwood to take with greater longevity.” up the club’s first coaching position. the 90’s — I scored over in Windsor, and holds the distinction of being the This statement stood the test of time Ann took up the scoring for the 1st England and they had an elderly first and only female on the league’s as it would be a further 18 years before XI, and has been doing it ever since. gentleman score for them. life member honour board. Pascoe only recently announced that Renowned league-wide for her “He scored in coloured pencils and After approximately 550 games, she was vacating the scorer’s chair. well-kept books, Pascoe also held the I thought that’s a good idea, so I came 95,000 runs, 4,600 wickets and three With the thanks of an eternally positions of Treasurer and Secretary. home and started doing it here,” she 1st XI premierships, Ann has seen just grateful 1st XI side, and the club With such a unique approach to said. about all there is to see on the cricket overall, Ann fittingly scored her last scoring, Ann admits the idea of using Ann achieved life membership at field including almost 200 players game against Norwood in the last multi-coloured markers came from both Warrandyte and the Ringwood come through the ranks of the club’s round of the season and brought to overseas. District Cricket Association in 1993, top-tier. a close one of the more remarkable “Coloured pens came into it around careers in Warrandyte sport. Dehmel named as Tennis kids aim for the stars By SUSAN FOREMAN Red Ball Whether playing competitatvely or WARRANDYTE Tennis Club has Winner Tony Shen socially, or just wanting to develop WCC best and fairest hosted the first of a series of regular R/U Kai O’Keefe, your skills, the club has membership options to suit players young and old. tournaments for kids aged seven to 18. Orange Ball Sect 1 BY JOSH HUNTLY winning the Nathan Croft 3rd XI This first event was a huge success Also recently, Warrandyte Tennis medal, backing up his 4th XI Jim Winner Joshua Loh, Club hosted the Australian Open 1ST XI captain Ayrton Dehmel was with plenty of smiling kids having R/U George Dunkley anointed this years Steve Pascoe Gathercole winning form of 2018. a fantastic experience playing Level 1 Ball-kid trials. medallist after a stunning year with In the fours, Ethan Ward was competition tennis. Orange Ball Sect 2 Over 50 local kids were put through the willow. crowned this years Gathercole The event was divided into the three Winner Jacqui Doherty, their paces under the watchful eye of The clubs best and fairest winner medallist after a strong year with Hot Shot categories: Red Ball (half R/U Steven Shen the Warrandyte Tennis Club coaches polled 20 votes and claimed his bat in hand, including a stint for the court) for ages seven to nine, Orange in a bid to make their way to Rod Laver Under 16 RDCA representative side. maiden award after walloping Ball (three-quarter court) for ages Open Section 1 Arena for the Australian Open 2020. Ward rounded out the top three 715 runs at an average of 55, Winner Ruby Ward If you would like to know how to get of the Pascoe Medal with 16 votes. 10–12 and Green Ball (full court) for including three centuries, to put an R/U Kai Dallan-Jones involved in the Hot Shots program at 5th XI strike bowler Max Coutts ages 10 and above. exclamation mark on a magnificent For experienced competition Open Section 2 the Warrandyte Tennis Club, contact individual season. was rightly awarded Leguir medal as the sides premier strike bowler, players, there was also an open Winner Hamish Pattenden the Tennis Guru on 0488 722 538 or His impressive form was taking 14 wickets at an average of section with regular balls. R/U Oliver Liu email [email protected]. recognised at the RDCA awards 13.29 on top of his 11 wickets for the These competitions are open to night where he also topped the clubs Under 18 squad. anyone in the local area regardless of voting in the Bill Wilkins Shield by a The Ivan Vojlay medal was claimed which club you play for, get coached at vote to secure the leagues second- by experienced campaigner Steve or even for those not in regular tennis highest individual playing honour. Warr as he continues to perform programs. Elsewhere at Warrandyte Cricket year after year. “With the introduction of Red, Club’s night of nights, a variety of To commemorate the recent Orange and Green categories in future stars and experienced heads passing of clubman Andrew Thomas, the local association competitions won their respective grade’s awards. these tournaments give all kids the inaugural 7th XI best and fairest 2nd XI skipper Campbell Holland award was named in his honour, the opportunity to try competition continues to build his impressive carrying extra gravitas to the first tennis,” Coach Craig Haslam said. legacy at the club after he won player to be named the best player “They get the chance to learn how the Brett Kline medal due to his in the Sevens. to play matches in an environment impressive season with both bat For his all-round ability in the suitable to their experience level, and ball. team, young gun Isaac Rakuscek under the supervision of a coach, The 2011/12 Pascoe Medallist claimed the first iteration of the which gives the kids and parents placed second in the overall vote award for a season that saw him the confidence to enter their kids in count, just one vote behind Dehmel claim 5/1 in the Under 14 semi- regular club competitions.” on 19. final and established himself as a While participation was the goal Lachlan Haberfield made it back- young player to watch in the coming of these events there were some to-back best and fairest awards by seasons. champions on the day. MAY 2019 Warrandyte Diary 27 Injured Bloods win season opener BY JOSH HUNTLY hostilities a minute’s silence was from 50 and further extending the Round 1 and 2 wrap Round 3 IT FEELS like the cricket season held for Ex-President Noel Taplin lead. Warrandyte 14.15–99 and life member Eric Houghton, two Then, with the game in the balance, Warrandyte’s second-tier have def Forest Hill Zebras 2.2–14 has only just finshed and we are endured a slow opening to season already four rounds in to the 2019 stalwarts of the Warrandyte Football a one-two hit of injuries in the third Goal Kickers: C. Padfield 5, Club who sadly passed away over the left Warrandyte with no bench. 2019 and have yet to register a win. ELF Division Three season. The Bloods started positively against Q. Clark 3, B. Davies 2, D. Poole, Coming out of the first weekend in pre-season. Ben Richardson threw himself O. Bell, M. Philpots, C. Martin After paying their respects, the into an unfavourable one-on-two Glen Waverley, finding their first goal May, the Seniors are in a battle for through the big-bodied Scott Ternes, Best Players: L. O’Reilly, H. Smith, players set out to do battle for a contest and received a cracked rib second, with Warrandyte, Donvale who converted coolly from the set shot. L. Durran, M. Baynon, Q. Clark, O. and Ferntree Gully all sitting on 12 valuable four points and after the for his troubles, and Vice-Captain Hodgson Nikoda Brooking was taken off the After quarter-time, Glen Waverley point. first bounce of the 2019 season the gained the ascendancy and while The Reserves have only managed ball immediately found its way inside field with a leg injury after slotting an Round 4 important goal, further compounding Matthew Colborne-Veel snapped a one victory in three and are currently 50 and into the hands of recruit Tom goal against the flow of play to steady Warrandyte 13.10–88 sitting sixth on the ladder. Grimes, who made no mistake to slot the Bloods’ injury woes. def Waverley Blues 3.3–21 By three-quarter time, the embattled the ship, the five-goal to one second The U19s are currently four-for-four Warrandyte’s first goal. quarter saw the momentum remain Goal Kickers: D. Poole 3, Q. Clark and second on the ladder, missing Glen Waverley retaliated with Bloods were down to no rotations 3, C. Padfield 3, K. Appleby 2, B. with injuries turning the game into a Glen Waverley’s way. out on the top point on percentages. several quick inside 50’s of their own Despite a sterling performance in Vermeulen Brown, L. Vaughan but inaccuracy spared the Bloods thrilling war of attrition. A courageous last quarter left defence to Hayden Buyn, a lack of goal- Best Players: B. Trevorrow, B. Seniors who went into quarter time with scorers would be the Bloods’ undoing, Vermeulen Brown, L. Myott, H. a one-point lead, but not before a supporters on the edge of their seats. Players were out on their feet but with Ternes and Colborne-Veel the Nitschinsk, Q. Clark, C. Martin Round 1 contest on the siren saw Tom Grimes only two to convert with three and two Warrandyte 11.8-74 fall to the ground with a head knock. the likes of Buckley, Meyers and Tout Round 1 and 2 wrap found their second wind to doggedly goals respectively. def Glen Waverley 9.11-65 A concerned Warrandyte pavilion Similar woes hindered Warrandyte Warrandyte’s U19s have enjoyed an watched on while medics attended defend the back half of the ground. Goal Kickers: L. Dunn 4, N. Johnston After what seemed like an against Donvale the following week. unblemished 2-0 start to the season, 2, N. Grimes, N. Brooking, C. to the incapacitated Grimes but Donvale kicked the first four goals thanks largely to consecutive blowout thankfully, he was able to assist eternity the siren sounded to signal Johnstone, J. Gebert, T. Grimes Warrandyte’s nine-point victory, of the game before Warrandyte victories. Best Players: M. Buckley, L. Dunn, N. himself into the vehicle, albeit with responded with their first through a With Liam Vaughan and Leo Garrick a heavy concussion and his game with a full house of supporters in the Brooking, J. Meyers, L. Oliver, C. Tout rooms afterwards to sing the song David Wilson set shot. earning the honour of leading the finished. with the team. The second half started positively side in 2019, the young bloods fired Round 2 The intensity of the game lifted in with Campbell Prior bursting through a warning shot to opposition teams Warrandyte 8.11-59 the second quarter and both sides Reserves the midfield to kick the first goal and with a 121-point rout of Norwood def by Donvale 10.11-71 shared 10 goals between them in Scott Valentine backing it up with a in Round 1, looking every part the chase-down holding the ball inside 50. Goal Kickers: S. Bowers 3, J. Beasley what was quickly becoming an end- Round 1 team to beat in the dual Division 3/4 2, C. Tout, J. Meyers to-end shootout. Warrandyte 5.6-36 After previously competing in the U19s game, Oscar Hodgson inspired a competition. Best Players: L. Oliver, N. Johnston, Half-back Jordan Powell was def by Glen Waverley 11.4-70 An impressive Warrandyte outfit J. Meyers, L. Saunders, T. Versteegen, Warrandyte’s second casualty early brief comeback with his attack on the Goal Kickers: S. Ternes 3, M. ball and a goal. found their first three goals quickly S. Bowers in the quarter with a dislocated thanks to Oscar Hodgson and Callum shoulder, also ruling him out for the Colborne-Veel 2 At the three-quarter time however it Round 3 Best Players: H. Buyn, T. Beasley, was just pride to play for as the Bloods Padfield while Quinn Clark caused rest of the match. headaches early with his strong Warrandyte 14.12–96 Charlie Johnstone stood up in his S. Ternes, M. Colborne-Veel, L. kicked the majority of their goals in the def Whitehorse Pioneeers 6.9–45 Saunders, D. Corke last quarter with two to Luke Brewis. overhead marking. place, splitting Glen Waverley in two Vaughan and Garrick were allowed Goal Kickers: N. Grimes with a dashing run from half back and Round 2 The Bloods could not drag back the deficit, falling to a 53-point loss. first use of the ball through the middle 4, J. Meyers 2, M. Buckley 2, N. completing the impressive one-two Warrandyte 6.4-40 thanks to Connor Martins dominance Johnston, J. Gebert, M. Cullum, play with a raking left boot from 50 def by Donvale 14.9-93 Reigning best and fairest Ryley Reardon adjudicated Warrandytes in the ruck, which would see him L. Dunn, N. Brooking, J. Powell that sailed through the middle. Goal Kickers: L. Brewis 2, C. Prior, S. best for his game in the ruck. elevated to the Senior squad the Best Players: P. Donahoo, N. Spearhead Luke Dunn was also Valentine, D. Wilson following week against Donvale. Johnston, J. Meyers, L. Oliver, M. starting to cause headaches for the Best Players: R. Reardon, B. U19s With a seven-goal buffer at half- Buckley, L. Buckley Waverley defenders with his first of Leenaerts, C. Prior, M. Munro, L. time, Warrandyte never looked an eventual four goals swinging the Round 4 Frowd, G. Godwin Round 1 back as strong switch play and slick momentum Warrandyte’s way. Warrandyte 22.16-128 ball skills sliced through Norwoods Warrandyte 13.16–94 Despite the slick transition play, Round 3 def Norwood 3.9-27 defence. def Waverley Blues 13.7–85 Warrandyte 12.4–76 the Hawks kept pace, kicking out to Clark and Matt Baynon finished with Goal Kickers: J. Grimes 4, L. Dunn a three-point lead with a minute to def Whitehorse Pioneeers 3.6–24 Goal Kickers: C. Padfield 6, Q. Clark 3, M. Baynon 3, L. Garrick 2, L. Vaughan three goals a-piece while Padfield’s 3, K. Thompson 2, T. Grimes, S. play in the half. Goal Kickers: S. Ternes 3, L. Brewis final haul of six saw him named man Bowers, M. Cullum, N. Grimes The Bloods’ midfield pushed the 2, D. Poole, E. Boell, M. Philpots, K. 2, C. Prior 2, L. Richardson 2, T. Appleby, O. Hodgson, C. Martin of the match. Best Players: T. Hayton, J. Grimes, ball inside 50 and Nathan Grimes Beasley, G. Godwin, G. Hitchman Warrandyte failed to put a foot found himself fouled during a Best Players: C. Padfield, L. Vaughan, L. Buckley, T. Grimes, K. Thompson, Best Players: R. Brand, T. Beasley, M. L. Garrick, Q. Clark, C. Martin, M. wrong against Donvale in Round 2, M. Buckley marking contest right on the arc, just Richards, S. Ternes, D. Corke, L. Brewis taking away a comfortable 35-point moments before the half-time siren. Baynon Round 1 report Round 4 win despite a sterner test from the Grimes steadied himself and Round 2 Magpies. without any deviation, the ball split Warrandyte 3.4–22 Warrandyte 12.15-87 WARRANDYTE’S opening round def by Waverley Blues 7.11–53 Lewis Downie and U17 Ruckman encounter with Glen Waverley was the middle to give the side a three- def Donvale 8.4-52 Finn Swedosh were more than a veritable four-quarter epic as the point quarter. Goal Kickers: G. Godwin, M. Munro, Goal Kickers: L. Downie 4, C. Padfield serviceable inclusions to the side with Bloods won a thrilling war of attrition Hostilities resumed after half D. Wilson 3, D. Poole 2, Q. Clark 2, O. Bell Downie recording a game-high four in front of a jubilant home crowd to time and Nick Johnstone reminded Best Players: C. Whitfield, M. Best Players: F. Swedosh, K. Appleby, goals while Swedosh looked more get their season underway. everyone of his long-range kicking Richards, M. Jaffrey, T. Beasley, C. H. Smith, Q. Clark, B. Vermeulen than comfortable at the level with a Before the two clubs commenced abilities, booting a goal on the run Prior, B. Leenaert Brown, L. Downie best on ground performance.

Dunn converts A moment of slience for Warrandyte legends

Nathan Grimes makes no mistake at half time siren

Photos: TREWELLA SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY Warrandyte Diary MAY 2019