ISSUE BRANXTON GRETA VINEYARDS 432 491 thebranxtonnews.com.au/ ...for your enjoyment Serving the local community since 1997 FREEFREE All the local WEDNESDAY “Your paper of choice” news since 1997 19 December 2018 Page 4 Page 6 Page 19 Page 21 STEVE’S Members WellWell DoneDone School NotNot SoSo WellWell say... NEWS DoneDone Welcome Rev. Nicole Baldwin ON Friday evening, 7th December 2018, a authority and ongoing relationship with a beautiful supper provided by the parish. commissioning service was held at St the Bishop & before receiving their Rev. Nicole was born in Sydney & grew up on John’s Anglican Church in Branxton to licence, the priest makes oaths and farms in the Taree & Cundletown areas. install & welcome their new Parish Priest affirmations confirming their As a 16 year old she completed an for Branxton Greta Lochinvar, Rev. commitment to observe the doctrine & international student exchange program for 12 Nicole Baldwin. order of the Anglican Church of months in Basile Louisiana USA & during that Australia, to exercise canonical year she discovered that she felt ‘at home’ in a Special guests, including Rev. Nicole’s obedience to the Bishop and to abide by church & has taken that to be ordained an mother, visitors & the parish congregation the code of conduct for clergy & church Anglican priest. filled the church to overflowing. workers. In her free time she enjoys movies, walking, It is the practice in the Anglican Church that After the commissioning service & Holy spending time with friends & enjoying my a member of the clergy receives a licence Communion the special guests, invited daughters company from the Bishop to undertake their ministry. clergy, visitors & congregation enjoyed “I have two daughters who are growing into The licence confirms the priests beautiful, passionate & independent young women. “Both Catherine & Rebecca support me as I follow God’s call and they encourage me to remember that God has a plan for each of our lives,” said Rev. Nicole. “I am passionate about sharing the Gospel with people of all ages & have a special passion for teaching Scripture in schools & being involved in youth & childrens’ ministries. “I love being able to minister in my community and with my community. “I believe that reaching out to the wider Offering cosmetic/anti wrinkle therapy community & building relationships is critical to our Christian witness & I am honoured and excited to be a part of this wonderful congregation and the families that call it home.” “Most of my time will be given to serving. I will be called upon to help to make the wheels run smoothly and try continuously to bring the Online appointments available greatest good to the largest number of my through health engine congregation,” said Rev. Nicole. ■ At Right: (L-R): the newly commissioned Parish Priest the Rev, Nicole Baldwin, The Bishop of Newcastle, the Rt Rev’d Dr. Peter Stuart & the Assistant Bishop Venerable Canon Sonia Roulston. CONT. 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Mob: 0414 234 841 Ph: 4930 7078 A/H 4 ͽ| THE NEWS | No. 491 | Wednesday 19 Dec 2018 other circumstances. It is a natural product of life and death. As a result of one specific river combustion, the US Government cried STEVE’S enough and the US Clean Water and Clean Air Acts were passed in congress. What had happened in the US spawned other clean up attempts throughout the western world. A consciousness of the A prophecy for the (SO2) released into the fragility of our environment atmosphere mixed with was suddenly more IT being the last issue of The News end of this century water to form sulfuric acid. important than the Cold prior to Christmas it would be As I write this it is pouring It was the kind of event that War, ‘Mutually Assured remiss of me not to mention the enor- with rain and Zeus is lead the western world to Destruction’ (MAD) and mous contribution the sporting club throwing his lightning bolts understand the relationship space ships to the moon. secretaries & publicity officers of all all around the place. between concentrated Albeit these remain of our community organisa- Seems we will be having a industrial activity and the concern. wet Christmas which is tions make to our publication. environment. In the west of We then had Greenpeace, becoming the norm. i.e., the Club reports & results are critical to Germany, the world’s first the World Wild Life Fund the dissemination of club news & wet season. Since this is the et al and Richard Attenbor- Green political party was individual achievements. last rant for 2018, I feel it is ough, not to mention our formed as a result of this Again, it would be remiss of me not timely to go out on a limb awakening. Australian of the year ‘Tim and make a prophecy for the Flannery’ who championed to mention all our other contributors In 1967 a river in who diligently provide articles end of this century. By way Massachusetts in the USA the protection of our of justification I must start for our readers. To mention just a burst into flames. This was environment. This I few; Andrew Marsh, John S. Bryant by going back to the middle not an unusual occurrence wholeheartedly agree with. of the last century to apparently and was a bit of a Protecting wilderness and OAM (almost retired), Lester Bootes optimistic 1950s when sight seeing event. What had the maintenance of forest is & Mark Bercini, Annaleize Ham- nuclear power and technical happened was that so much key to the balance and sta- bling, Sonya Martin & Denise Harvey advances promised a great poo and other effluent was bility of chemical, oxygen at Cessnock City Council. future for mankind, unless allowed to be discharged and daily cycles of humidity Daryl Sheppard from Branxton Golf you were born black of into the river that the rivers’ and temperature. With these Club, Karen Quilty from Branxton behind the Iron Curtain natural oxygen levels things we can all agree, for I remember being told at virtually disappeared. we can see it happening in secondary school that since When you have great our own gardens and farms man has split the atom, amounts of effluent and no and the countryside. We nothing much remained to be oxygen the microbes which rejoice in the rain storm we discovered apart from feed on this soup are called just had an hour or so ago medical problems. That ANEROBIC. This means and we delight in the effect certainly has not changed but they can exist without it has on our own trees, as we delve into the wonders oxygen. Anerobic bacteria, shrubs, livestock and the air of theoretical physics and because they exist without we breathe. quantum physics, we oxygen, produce methane So, with this awareness of Yes! It’s time to lead by example. So*… no more TV, no more internet, no increasingly understand the gas as a by-product of their our world and the education limits to our knowledge and metabolism. This happens in to understand basic the extent of what we do not the gut of ruminant animals geography and the cause know. Yes, as we learn more more mobile phone, no heating, no fridge, no medicines, no car, no flying, as well, hence the stupid and effect when the natural the prospects of new idea that we must all become order of things, as we discoveries extend ever vegetarians and kill all our understand them, are onwards. no asphalt roads. Now … don’t you feel good? domestic livestock to save changed by human In the 1960’s that iconic the planet. Methane gas is activities, we become acute German wilderness called produced whenever to the new problems *All made from or dependent on fossil fuels the Black Forest began to anaerobic bacterial activity endangering the die. It was acid rain, caused environment that we depend is present. Now Al Gore is most likely a facts. the future of mankind than 5 Nov 2018. A new by the burning of poor- on for our survival. This can be in swamps, very genuine person, he * The seas are not rising. the likes of Adolf Hitler, assessment of the ozone quality fossil fuels which had Along come Al Gore with animal guts, any would not have been the * The temperature is not Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or hole, published by the UN, a high sulphur content.