In this issue Love where you live 2 Campaspe Times Newsletter What’s on 2 March 2021 Australia Day awards 3 Project update 4 Campaspe: Looking forward Thriving together 5 Welcome to the first edition of our events, coordinated by community Resilient Rochester 6 community newsletter for 2021. groups. I was fortunate to attend a number of events and my fellow Waste and recycling news 7 Your new team of Councillors, elected Councillors also spent the day out and last October, have been busy across Service profile – about, meeting many residents, and the past few months increasing their Quarry operations 8 congratulating our award winners. You understanding of the operations of can read about our overall winners as Council, the new Local Government Act, well as the district winners on page meeting procedures and processes, the 3. I also completed my first Australian services being delivered and starting to Citizenship ceremony on the day at engage with their communities. Tongala, with Rochelle Esperon, now One of our priorities is the development living in Girgarre. of a new Council Plan, a four year plan Australia Day was one of the first setting out the key priorities for our four community events held for nearly a year term. Get social and year now. With restrictions changing, stay updated But before we progress too far, we need events are slowly starting to return to to review Campaspe’s Vision and we our communities, albeit in a different @CampaspeShireCouncil need you to be part of this. form, with COVIDSafe Plans now a @campaspeshire requirement. It’s great to see our events The ‘Campaspe: Thriving Together’ calendar starting to fill with regular #campaspeshire community engagement program is now community markets, fundraising and underway and I urge residents to be annual events returning. Upcoming involved. Page 5 outlines the program, events are listed on page 2. If a with upcoming workshops planned community group needs to change or for March. We need to know what the cancel an event at the last minute due priorities are for your community. If Cover image –‘Love playing under to changing restrictions, I am sure our attending a local workshop doesn’t suit, sprinkler’ by Angela Nixon. residents will understand. we have an online survey to capture your comments, or you may see our staff out Wishing everyone all the very best for and about in your town speaking with the year ahead and I look forward to residents. meeting you when out and about across our shire. With COVID restrictions changing and allowing people to gather outdoors, Cr Chrissy Weller Australia Day was celebrated with many Mayor Cnr Hare & Heygarth Streets Echuca VIC 3564 PO Box 35 Echuca VIC 3564 P: 1300 666 535 | 03 5481 2200 Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh (left) and Mayor Cr Chrissy Weller (right), E: [email protected] with newly conferred Australian citizen Rochelle Esperon. www.campaspe.vic.gov.au 1 Campaspe Times Newsletter Explore Southern Campaspe #lovewhereyoulive Colbinabbin, a small rural farming township in the south of the shire, nestled in Shiraz grape growing country, has another local attraction to add to the recently completed silos project, its general store. The local community recently took over the Mitchell Street store which has seen an influx of customers through the door. The community recognised the need to retain the store and set up a cooperative management model and has more than 170 residents involved. With a focus on take- away food, a café and local produce, the store is finding a market for local workers looking for coffee and lunch, and visitors to the town to visit the nearby silos. Local products currently include Kennedy Farm produce, Store Manager, Joel Raglus (in background) with the Ironbark Apiary Honey, Meander Designs prints, tea towels Kyabram Red Hatters, out on a daytrip. Joel use to work and stationery, products from The Camel Milk Co and in Kyabram and many of the ladies commented that Kyvalley Dairy, and Myola Eucalyptus and Tea Tree Oils. they had travelled to Colbinabbin, just to see Joel. The Local produce companies looking to expand their market Red Hatters had visited Deb Dodd at the Many Makers Gallery in Stanhope, the quilting shop in Rushworth are encouraged to make contact with the store. If you are in and following a visit to the store and the silos they were the area, stop in to say G’day to Joel and the team and visit travelling to Rochester for lunch. the local attractions. A listing of upcoming events across our region. What’s on Events may be cancelled or amended at short notice, pending changes to COVID restrictions and approvals. Saturday, 6 March Rushworth Speedway Race Meet – Rushworth Saturday, 10 April Echuca Farmers’ Market - Aquatic Reserve, Speedway, Nine Mile Rd, 0491 680 977 Rushworth Speedway Race Meet – Rushworth Echuca, 0437 746 459 Speedway, Nine Mile Rd, 0491 680 977 27 - 28 March Makers Market - Echuca Moama Uniting Church, Torrumbarry Fishing Classic, Murray River near Sunday, 11 April Hare St, Echuca, 0429 801 342 Torrumbarry, 0457 222 320 Girgarre Farmers’ Produce and Craft Market - Girgarre Memorial Hall & Park Reserve, Sunday, 7 March Saturday, 27 March Echuca Races - Echuca Cup Day, Echuca 5854 6283 Murray to Moyne – starts in Echuca, 0427 681 744 Racecourse, Scott Rd, 5482 2487 Stanhope Monster Garage Sale - Birdwood Ave, Rochester Town Market - Rochester Town Hall & 5857 2866 12 - 14 March Market Reserve, 0409 075 074 Champions League Basketball - Moama Saturday, 17 April Recreation Reserve, Moama, 1300 087 004 Earthhour ‘Spot the Glider’ Squirrel Glider Tour - Echuca Farmers’ Market - Aquatic Reserve, Campaspe River Reserve, Rochester, Echuca, 0437 746 459 12 - 20 March Rochester Mural Festival – Rochester, 0408 753 344 REHF Rushworth Market - High St, Rushworth, 0456 728 665 Sunday, 28 March 0402 576 103 14 - 18 March Tongala’s Beersheba Rod, Custom & Classic Car 18 - 23 April Victoria Veterans Cricket – various locations, & Bike Show – Tongala Soundshell, Mangan St, Campaspe Valley Bowls Division Victorian 0427 817 333 0499 384 272 Women’s Bowls Carnival – Various clubs across shire, 0409 949 008 Sunday, 14 March Teddy Bears Picnic - Kerrabee Soundshell, Monday, 19 April Girgarre Farmers’ Produce and Craft Market - Moama, 1300 087 004 Echuca Races, Echuca Racecourse, Scott Rd, Girgarre Memorial Hall & Park Reserve, Friday, 2 April 5482 2487 5854 6283 Echuca Rodeo – Echuca Rotary Park, Rose St, 24 - 25 April Stanhope Monster Garage Sale - Birdwood Ave, 0457 287 128 Lockington Scarecrow Competition – Lockington, 5857 2866 Saturday, 3 April 0499 170 329 Kyabram Community Church ‘Summer Nights’ – Rushworth Easter Heritage Festival - High St, John Pilley Reserve, Lake Rd, Kyabram, Saturday, 24 April Rushworth, 0402 576 103 Rochester Town Market - Rochester Town Hall & 0429 382 623 Echuca Farmers’ Market - Aquatic Reserve, Market Reserve, 0409 075 074 Friday, 19 March Echuca, 0437 746 459 Rushworth Speedway Race Meet – Rushworth Echuca Harness Racing Club Echuca Cup Meet - Speedway, Nine Mile Rd, 0491 680 977 Frank Ryan Raceway, Simmie St, Echuca, Makers Market - Echuca Moama Uniting Church, 5482 2036 Hare St, Echuca, 0429 801 342 Saturday, 1 May Echuca Farmers’ Market - Aquatic Reserve, Saturday, 20 March 8 - 11 April Echuca, 0437 746 459 Cinema Pop Up, Kerabee Sound Shell, Moama, Echuca Farmers’ Market - Aquatic Reserve, Sunday, 2 May Echuca, 0437 746 459 Sunday, 4 April Echuca Moama Bridal & Events presents Tie the REHF Rushworth Market - High St, Rushworth, Echuca Harness Racing Club meet - Frank Ryan Knot Festival - Echuca Racecourse, Scott Rd, 0402 576 103 Raceway, Simmie St, Echuca, 5482 2036 0409 173 376 2 Get social and @CampaspeShireCouncil stay updated @campaspeshire #campaspeshire ‘I am, you are, we are Australian’ Australia Day Awards celebrate the outstanding contribution of people within our community. It is an opportunity to formally recognise those who have dedicated their time and achieved great things. This year, awards were presented in the Echuca, Rochester, Kyabram, Tongala and Rushworth districts, in two categories: Citizen of the Year and Young Citizen of the Year. Additionally there were overall category award winners as follows: Citizen of the Year Hannah Thompson A long standing volunteer in the Rochester 2021 community, Hannah has been the recipient of many community awards. She suffered a Australia significant stroke at the age of 23 which left her with an enduring disability but this has not Day Award stopped her from helping out whenever and wherever she can. Winners Echuca Hannah has been collecting for The Royal Children’s Hospital in the Good Friday Appeal since she was 9 years old and helps her Dad deliver Meals on Wheels. She Citizen of the year - sells raffle tickets for the bowling club every Friday night when the meals are on. Denis Jackman Hannah’s accolades don’t stop there, she has been co-editor for the Uniting Church Young citizen of the year - Martyn Currey newsletter since 2005 and helps out at St Joseph’s Primary School with reading and other tasks. She has a great relationship with patients at the local hospital and Rochester knows what they like to buy from the lolly trolley. Hannah brings sunshine into what Citizen of the year - can sometimes be a grey day. Hannah Thompson Young citizen of the year - Young Citizen of Yazmin Hayes the Year Kyabram Citizen of the year - Jack Norris Denise Gemmill Young citizen of the year - Nominated for his significant contribution to the Jack Norris Kyabram community, Jack Norris takes great pride Tongala in representing the young people of Kyabram. Citizen of the year - Striving to make the community a better place for Sarah Tee his peers, Jack is a strong voice for the local youth and serves on the College Council at his local Young citizen of the year - Not awarded school, Kyabram P-12.