Alsoalso on -online-line at www.strathbogie.orgat www.strathbogie.org October 2019 Strathbogie Tableland Action Group Inc. What’s On Town Signage Oct 4 - Blue Skies Free Youth Music As the proposed design for township entry signage did not receive Event, Northern Republic See p3 full community support, STAG is seeking further suggestions from Oct 5 - Euroa Arboretum School members of the community. Holiday Workshop See p7 In general terms, the sign should: Oct 5-6 or 8-9 - Free Pool Lifeguard Training See p10 Be attractive and reflect the local character and charm of Oct 11 - Violet Town RSL AGM See p5 the municipality Oct 12 - SRCMN Riparian Walk See p9 Have the appearance of a single panel with a consistent Oct 13 - Stop Mynas Strathbogie visual theme, style and colour scheme Workshop See p7 Compliment rather than dominate streetscapes Oct 13 - Nellie Melba Concert and Memorabilia Senior’s Event See p13 Must be composed of no more than: Oct 15 - VTFNC AGM See p11 “Welcome to Strathbogie Shire” with logo; and inclusion of the design element of the regional character Oct 20 - CFA Day Hall See p14 Oct 27 - Strathbogie Landcare AGM. Suggestions should conform with the Shire’s new Boundary, Strathbogie Hall 2pm See p9 Town Entry and District Signage Policy, a copy of which is Nov 1 - Aust Day nominations close available at the store or can be provided on line by emailing Nov 1, 2, 3 & 9 - Strathbogie Arts [email protected]. Festival See pages 3, 7, 11, 13 Suggestions should either be placed in the box at the store or ------------------------------------------------ emailed to [email protected] by 5pm on Friday 15th Every Third Monday - 7.30pm STAG November. meet at Strathbogie Hall Suggestions, providing they meet the requirements of the Shire’s Every Wednesday - Material Girls - Policy, will then be displayed on the community noticeboard for usual times 10am - Rec Ground - BYO four weeks for members of the community to vote. lunch. Newcomers welcome Ph: Jill Smith 5790 5159. Diesel Fuel Every Wednesday - 7.30pm Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Strathbogie Singing Group - Council and an agreement with Refuelling Solutions (RFS), STAG St Andrews Church - Strathbogie is pleased to announce that the diesel fuel supply will be available (except in School Holidays) before Christmas, which will be of particular advantage to the Ph: Di Mackrell 5790 5241 CFA during the coming fire season. Prior to the commencement Every Second Month - Strathbogie of operation RFS will hold an information session to answer any Landcare first Sunday 9-11am Contact questions. Sean 0400 019 607 Every Second and Fourth Sunday - Community Action Plan Church service at St Andrews Church - The revised Community Action Plan has been provided to Council Strathbogie 11.00am and is available on the community website www.strathbogie.org Every First Wednesday of the month - 1.30pm Strathbogie Garden Group. Community Grants Contact Wendy 5790 8523 STAG is providing support to two successful community grant applications: Every Fourth Saturday of the - to Landcare for provision of potable water in the Hall grounds month—Australian Plants Society Group meeting Pete 0402 882 959 - to the Hall Committee for improved AV equipment. Every Third Sunday of the month - STAG is happy to welcome new members to the committee – 3pm Strathbogie Community of Food meetings are held on the third Monday of the month at 7.30pm in Finders at the Recreation Ground the Soldiers Room at the Hall and all community members are Every Thursday night from Oct 10. welcome. Strathbogie Recreation Ground. 6pm Helen Peters, Secretary food & drinks 1 SWANPOOL Do you need a Euroa Cinema in October Justice of To receive a weekly email update, send your CINEMA in Oct. the Peace? details to: [email protected] Tickets $13.50/$11 Chris Thomson Tickets $10, preschoolers free. www.swanpoolcinema.com.au ‘Aberdeen’ A dog’s journey PG Oct 1 1pm (sensory 5790 5340 screening), Oct 2 2pm Aga PG Oct 5 & 6 6pm Boho South Hall The extraordinary journey of the Fakir M Parasite MA15+ Oct 5 & Available for hire. Oct 4 8pm, Oct 6 4pm 6 8pm Bookings contact: Easy Rider MA15+ Oct 5 8pm Show & Shine Margaret Mactier Event All is true M Oct 11 6pm, Ph 5790 8544 Palm Beach M Oct 11 & 12 8pm Oct 12 7pm, Oct 13 6pm Dame Nellie Melba: a celebration Senior’s Event. Concert & Memorabilia Oct 13 1.30pm Puzzle M Oct 12 9.15pm, Got something to Angel has fallen MA15+ Oct 19 8pm, Oct 20 Oct 13 8.15pm say? 4pm Send us a Downton Abbey PG Oct 26 8pm, Oct 27 An unexpected love M Letter to the Editor 4pm Oct 19 7pm, Oct 20 6pm Claire Darling M Oct 19 Check YOUR Local Event Support Strathbogie Tableland Landcare 9.30pm, Oct 20 8.30pm Doesn’t Clash With Group agricultural & conservation projects Apollo 11 PG Oct 26 ANOTHER Local Event. Membership is $10 per household. Do you want to get the most This gives you access to Landcare magazine, 7pm, Oct 27 1.30pm & people to your planned local subsidised rabbit & blackberry control, 6pm event? Is your local event going seedling purchases and community projects. to clash with another local event? Simply deposit $10 into the Strathbogie Hail Satan M Oct 26 9pm, We might be able to help. Ask Oct 27 8pm Tableland Talk. Many local Landcare account BSB 803 078 Acc events are promoted through our 100081991 (your name as reference) or local Newsletter. If you want to contact Secretary Sean Mathews for a For information regarding the find out if another event is being membership form [email protected] promoted on a date you are Violet Town Village Voice or to get planning for, get in touch. We will A reminder that Tableland Talk is a an emailed copy each month tell you if another local event has community newsletter run by a volunteer contact Robyn Thornhill at already been promoted on the group. same day and/or time: [email protected] Read it All community adverts are free. online at www.violettown.org.au [email protected] Business adverts are charged at $7 per issue for a usual size, or $12 per issue for a third to half page. Mobile Library We would appreciate it if all invoices for Dates for advertising are paid in full, and promptly - we have to pay for the photocopying. Strathbogie The TT team (every 2nd Saturday, 9.30 - 12 noon) This newsletter is entirely made up of contributions. Contributions to this Oct 5 and 19 newsletter are published as a forum for Nov 2 & 9 public discussion. The opinions expressed are the opinions of the contributors and not necessarily the opinions of the TT team. By publishing contributions this Strathbogie Strathbogie Memorial Hall Recreation Ground newsletter does not give its authority to Available for hire— $150 with $250 the truth or validity of the material refundable deposit in case carpet All bookings are to contained in contributions. Readers are cleaning is required. be made with Kim reminded that all contributions MUST be Bookings contact person is Kim Usher Usher 5790 5345 submitted with the name and address of Ph 5790 5345 the writer. The Deadline for November edition contributions to Tableland Talk is Friday, October 25, 2019. e: [email protected] m: 0400 019 607 or via Strathbogie PO / Store. Please note: Word or Publisher files, Arial font 11, convert pdf to jpeg, images < 250k preferred. The TT team 2 2020 Australia Day Award What are the curiosities that you make? Nominations This is a call out to all you closet creatives on the Tableland. As part of the Art exhibition and sale, we are putting together a section that celebrates our more low key local makers who love to create, yet whose work does not often get seen by a broader audience. Nearly all of us play with putting things together, colours and textures and bits and pieces. For some those creations may never appear from the shed they were welded in, or the sewing table they were stitched at. We want to bring your great Do you know someone who has shown creations into the light of day, to celebrate them considerable dedication to the community and is and give them a chance to be seen. worthy of an Australia Day Award? Or is there a It may be that you have been quietly working away local organisation or community event that stands illustrating botanicals, or making puppets, or out? welding letterboxes that will never receive a letter, or building a time machine in your shed. Maybe If so, then we would like you to put pen to paper and you have been knitting beanies in local ochre died fill in an Australia Day Award nomination form. wools, or illustrating a manuscript of Banjo Remember, Australia Day is under 4 months away! Paterson poems with velum and gold leaf. Whatever it is that you do, we want to see it and so Nomination forms can be obtained in the following does the world. We want to celebrate that great ways: imaginative process of yours that would dare to create. • In person: pick up from the Shire office in Euroa and the Nagambie Visitor Information Centre or There is no charge for locals who enter this part of Euroa Hub the exhibition, these items will not be for sale. • Online: via the website https:// Simply contact us and let us know what you have www.strathbogie.vic.gov.au/tourism/about-events/ got.