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Monday 21st May at 11 am: Biggest Morning Tea at Glenrowan Primary School, see below.
Monday 21st May at 12 noon: Monday Community Lunch at Multi-Purpose Centre, see below.
Wednesday 6th June at 7 pm: Glenrowan Improvers meeting at the Old Police Station, see below.
Wednesday 20th June at 2 pm: Community 'Drop-In' at the Old Police Station, see below.
Saturday 30th June at 7 pm: Siege Dinner with live entertainment at Glenrowan Hotel, see below.
'Drop-In' June: Casserole Lunch
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Somebody was reading the on-line Glenrowan Gazette on 1953 occasions last month.
The daily average for September 2011 was 65 readers, our second best month overall and quite an increase on the average for the first six months this year. September had 572 unique readers so many had a look several times.
The on-line Glenrowan Gazette had just over 55 readers every day for the first six months of 2011.
During each of these six months, there was close to 500 different people who read the newsletter - most of them had a look at least three times per month. ♣
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| New Playground Equipment in Glenrowan Lions Park |
| New playground equipment has been installed in Glenrowan Lions Park! ♣ |
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| Labour Day Weekend at Mount Buffalo | |
| Good food, good weather and good company were the order of the long weekend when the Warby Wanderers held their annual camp at Lake Catani on top of Mount Buffalo. Fortythree people represented 10 of the families who have been trekking up the mountain on Labour Day weekend for at least the last 20 years, some for even longer. The families participating come from Glenrowan, Killawarra and Wangandary. The children are now all grown up and this year saw the first of the next generation attending the camp. |
On the Saturday morning most of the group were taken on a tour of the Mount Buffalo Chalet by two Parks Victoria people – Clayton and Andy. Conducted in two groups, these tours gave everyone an insight into the many issues involved in reviving the Chalet, but also a greater appreciation of the wealth of history in this old building. |
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On Saturday evening the younger adult generation prepared an Indian feast for their parents and themselves. The cooks dressed up in Indian clothes and Indian music played in the background as everyone dined on Naan bread, pappadums, a wide selection of spicy curry dishes and accompanying condiments. | |
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| Sunday saw the operation of the traditional favourite – Loretta’s Cafe where it was possible to get a cappuccino with a selection of homemade cakes and slices. This year, chai lattes were added to the beverage menu. |
Then it was time to gather at the pier to watch the time trials of the pedal-canoe race where old competed with young and, in some races, came out winners, and in others certainly came out wetter. |
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| With the nights being quite cool, all enjoyed sitting round the blazing campfire and chatting. ♣ | |
| story and photos: Joy Higgins | |
Winton Primary School
The Crazy Hair Day was a fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis Victoria. Ed. ♣
• from Winton PS'
weekly newsletter
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Warby Whisper
| Detox Your Home at No Cost |  |
| Residents of Rural City of Wangaratta (RCW) can now take advantage of a free service to safely dispose of old cleaning products, left-over paint, dead batteries and weed killer stored around the home - without putting a strain on the environment Detox your Home is a free service provided by the Victorian Government to collect potentially dangerous and unwanted household chemical products. The service is funded by the Victorian landfill levy and administered by Sustainability Victoria in partnership with RCW. It is coming to Wangaratta on • Saturday 26th May, • open between 1 pm and 4 pm at • the Council Depot in Newman Street, Wangaratta. |
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| Materials for collection include • left-over paints • brake fluids • fuels • coolants • old batteries • poisonous household products • poisonous garden products • barbeque gas cylinders • solvents • glues • insecticides • pesticides • photographic chemicals • kitchen cleaning products • bathroom cleaning products • fire extinguishers. |
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| Chemicals used by businesses, farm chemicals, asbestos and empty containers will not be accepted. Containers must be smaller than 20 litres or 20 kilograms. | The collected materials will be treated and recycled, or disposed of safely by a specialist team. |
| For further information • call RCW on 5722 0888, • call Sustainability Victoria on 1800 35 32 33, |
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| Glenrowan Improvers | ||
| The Glenrowan Improvers' monthly meetings as well as all of their events are open to all members of our community: Welcome to you all! ♣ | ||
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| Warby-Ovens National Park | |
The Victorian Government created Warby-Ovens National Park to protect and enhance the remaining River Red gum forests in Victoria. This park - which certainly is our local national park, was legally established in June 2010 together with other new or expanded parks and over 200 conservation reserves. |
| Autumn Firewood Collection from 1st March | |
| The Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) is reminding Victorians that the Autumn Firewood Collection Season begins this week, on Thursday 1st March. The Autumn Firewood Collection season runs from 1st March to 30th June. | |
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DSE Executive Director (Forests and Parks) Lee Miezis said: “Once the Firewood Collection Season gets underway, firewood can be collected without a permit from designated areas of state forests and those parks where firewood collection is permitted. Maps showing • designated firewood collection areas in state forests and parks across Victoria was published 1st March.” |
| DSE also wants to remind Victorians that people collecting firewood cannot cut down trees, including ‘dead stags’, and are only entitled to use the wood available at the designated sites. Firewood collection is for personal use only and cannot be sold or used for commercially. There may be a cap placed on the amount each household can collect, particularly where there is limited access to firewood. • Please take time to study the fact sheet on DSE website. |
Designated firewood collection areas enable DSE to plan and manage environmental impacts. Firewood collection seasons enable management of risks to people and the environment during the wettest periods of the year and at times of highest fire hazard. Firewood collection areas will only be located in state forests and parks where the vegetation is suitable to supply firewood and where access is viable. The state forests/parks may be closed early if weather is unfavourable. |
| • Management of roadside vegetation remains with the road management authority, usually VicRoads or local government. ♣ | |
| Glenrowan Community Firewood Depot | |
Book Review: |
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| Central to this book is an account of one year in the life of the author. Robert Hillman, in 1964 and at the age of fifteen left his home town of Eildon, Victoria and after a brief stint in Myer’s ladies’ shoe department, booked a passage on a ship searching for his Eden. Readers need to remember that a memoir is not the same as an autobiography and thus has the option to be more of a construction than a factual timeline. Hillman can focus on looking back, with a degree of affection, on his immature and naive younger self, skilfully linking the narrating of the self-centred, teenage follies with a more mature reflective and psychological insight. Young Robert set out with a dream not a plan, a dream of an idyllic island with bare breasted women - one of his father's storites. He thought he was sailing to Ceylon, but ends up in Greece and begins hitching around Europe equipped only with optimism and his suitcase of 30 books and a typewriter. He visits Turkey, Kuwait and Iran armed only with the supreme and miss-placed confidence that he “was an Australian. We were a nation of people to whom things did not happen”. Bizarre tales of his travels, dependent on the kindness of strangers for food, shelter and sometimes survival, are recounted as Hillman finally begins to gain some self awareness during his time in prison in Iran. Here he describes in detail his relationship with fellow prisoners, recognising hardship and suffering, and regularly repeats his walk around the prison determined to remember what he has seen, not because he “feared forgetting, but that I feared the return of self-interest”. These adventures are interspersed with brief, succinct glimpses Hillman gives us of his other life. These show the complexity his relationship with his father and give an understanding of his “restlessness”, adding warmth and poignancy to our view of the writer. This book polarised our readers with a wide range of responses, however a number rated it highly, loving the humour of teenage optimism and resilience. This enthusiasm saw us rating this memoir a solid 3/5. ♣ |
The Boy in the Green Suit by Robert Hillman
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• find more results from the Glenrowan Indoor Bowls Club games by clicking on the image above |
Start of 2012 and Then Stop for Indoor Bowls |
| Bowling Now in Recess Sadly, 22nd February was the club’s last meeting for some time with the announcement that the Glenrowan Hall is soon to be refurbished. The Glenrowan Bowls Club has put itself into recess until the hall is finished or another suitable temporary venue is found. ♣ |
Members welcome any interested bowlers or would-be bowlers
to join them
every Wednesday
at 1 pm at
the
Glenrowan Memorial Hall, located at
the Recreation Reserve.
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| New Building Celebrated at Winton Primary School | |
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• from Winton PS'
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| Monday Community Lunches | |
| The community luncheon, organised by the Rural City of Wangaratta, is held on the first and third Monday of each month, commencing at 12 noon with a delicious 2-course meal for just $7.50 per head. Residents of Glenrowan district and Wangaratta who fit the Senior Cits “bill” - or are just in need of some company - are eligible to attend, but pre-booking is essential: Please contact Jo Bosch on 5721 3212 by the Wednesday prior to the Monday lunch. The next luncheon will be held Monday 21st May 2012. Following the luncheon, most people stay on for the Senior Citizens meeting and take part in various activities, including carpet bowls and card games. ♣ |
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Glenrowan Primary School:
| Glenrowan Community Firewood Depot | |
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| Wangaratta Rural City established a community firewood depot in Rifle Range Road in Glenrowan a couple of years ago and there is also one in Eldorado. | |
| These depots are intended to give the communities an opportunity to access sustainable timber and thus reduce the need to remove timber from roadsides. Roadside vegetation provides important habitat to animals such as parrots, kookaburras, owls, possums, gliders, bats, and geckos. A number of threatened species are residents in high conservation road reserves, in particular within hollows and fallen timber. When trees and fallen timber are removed from roadsides animal habitats are removed also. |
The community firewood depots are operated through timber supplied by a combination of storm events and routine works by Council's Arboriculture Team, resulting in timber not always being available and of mixed species. • Timber at firewood depots is usually green therefore can not be relied upon for burning the season of collection. • A chainsaw will be required to collect timber. • Firewood Depot Permits are now available for purchase at the Glenrowan PO for $16 or $11 concession, for the collection of up to 2 cubic meters per permit. ♣ |
| A Guide to Firewood | |
| • For further information please contact the Rural City of Wangaratta on 5722 0702. | |
| Autumn Firewood Collection Season | |
| 'Drop-In' June 2012 | |
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| • All dates for 2012 on the Community ConTACT page - watch out for the special events! ♣ | |
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Community ConTACT
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Glenrowan PS: Active After School Care
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Editor: Elin Melgaard Reporter: Joy Higgins Treasurer: Bill Gent
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