For the fourth year running, Central Highlands Water (CHW), has donated 100% of the sales of
their Choose Tap reusable stainless-steel bottles to local charity, WRISC Family Violence Support.
CHW Chair, Angeleen Jenkins has met with WRISC Business Manager, Anita Koelle and
WRISC Aboriginal Program Team Leader, Jodie Schulz, to present the donation of $10,360. The
donation was raised through bottle sales, including CHW’s new reconciliation themed Managing
Country Together design, at the 70th Ballarat Begonia Festival.
Ms Jenkins said, “We are proud to partner with WRISC. This year’s donation is CHW’s largest with
proceeds going directly to the programs that focus on support for our local Indigenous community.”
“We thank everyone in the community who visited us at the Begonia Festival and purchased a
bottle in support of this very important work,” she said.
Anita Koelle said, “WRISC is very pleased to work collaboratively with Central Highlands Water. At
WRISC, families are the focus of our work and we provide holistic services, in a culturally safe way,
to best meet the needs of the families that we support.”
WRISC is a not-for-profit organisation that provides free and confidential services for women and
children only, irrespective of disability, ethnicity, indigenous or tribal status, race, religion, or gender
identity. WRISC understands that family violence occurs across all communities and in range of
circumstances. The community can continue to support WRISC by making a donation through their
website.
CHW’s Choose Tap reusable water bottles are also available from their Learmonth Road office for
$10 each. The bottles are available in a range of styles, including the newest design featuring the
artwork of Billy-Jay O’Toole a proud Wadawurrung Traditional Owner. The featured artwork,
Managing Country Together, represents the relationship between CHW and the four registered
Aboriginal Parties on which CHW’s catchment extends, being Wadawurrung, Dja Dja Wurrung,
Wurundjeri and Barenji Gadjin.
For more information about CHW’s work to support the community, please visit: www.chw.net.au

Macedon Ranges Shire Council Arts & Culture team have a creative event throughout
the month of May aimed at getting people out in the fresh air and appreciating art and performance.
An interactive puppet show will be held at various locations around the shire featuring accompanying
musicians, which is bound to leave children and adults spellbound.
Ana’s Big Adventure! By Georgie Rose Puppetry

Join little puppet ‘Ana’ as she travels from town to town in the Macedon Ranges discovering different
animals, having adventures in nature and making friends along the way. All stages of the show weave
together as chapters, linking a story that travels between each of the locations. The little troupe of
marionette puppets led by Ana will be supported by musicians playing the violin and the harp
providing an enchanting experience for the whole family.
The performances are free and offer a chance for kids and the young at heart to learn from
professional puppeteers. Children are encouraged to interact and play with the puppets after each
performance.
Performance locations and times are as follows:
 Saturday 30 April, 10am, Macedon Farmers Market
 Saturday 30 April, 2pm, Mount Macedon CWA Hall
 Saturday 7 May, 10am, Malmsbury Botanical Garden
 Saturday 7 May, 2pm, Woodend Children’s Park
 Saturday 14 May, 10am, Romsey Lions Park Children’s Playground
 Saturday 14 May, 2pm, Lancefield Reserve Children’s Playground
 Saturday 21 May, 10am, Riddells Creek Lions Park
 Saturday 21 May, 2pm, Gisborne Adventure Playground

The state government is improving accessibility and safety at train stations across regional Victoria with new and upgraded car parks to ensure Victorians can get to where they need to go.
Ace Infrastructure has been awarded the contract to design and build 440 new and upgraded spaces across Kyneton, Gisborne, Riddells Creek, North Shore and Beaufort stations.
Once the works are complete, Bendigo Line passengers will benefit from 200 car parking spaces, including additional accessible car parking, and 35 new bicycle hoops.
One hundred spaces will be upgraded at Gisborne Station, which includes four accessible spaces, and 50 new spaces will be built at both Kyneton and Riddells Creek stations including accessible spaces.
At North Shore Station a total of 200 new and upgraded spaces will be delivered. Beaufort Station will gain 40 new spaces, including two new accessible spaces, and 15 new bicycle hoops.
All the new and upgraded car parks will be covered by CCTV and lighting for safety and security.
The community was invited to provide feedback on concept designs for all the car parks through the Engage Victoria platform last year. The feedback received will help inform the final designs.
Civil construction company Ace Infrastructure has significant experience in delivering station car parks, having previously constructed car parks at several locations including Sandown Park, Hurstbridge and Castlemaine. Ace Infrastructure also delivered previous car park upgrades at Kyneton and Gisborne stations.
Minister for Public Transport Ben Carroll: “We are delivering thousands of new and upgraded parking spaces at stations across the state, giving more people access to rail services to get them to where they need to go. The new and upgraded car parks will help regional Victorians access their local station, and significantly improve safety with lighting and CCTV.”

IT WAS really interesting having a chat with Cecilia Macaulay last week – check out her story on page 7.
If not for Covid, she would be heading to Japan pretty soon where she spends our winters every year. She loves Japan and Japanese culture, and I do too, but I think we have different takes on the land of the rising sun. Or maybe I am stuck in the past and need another trip, when they open up again. Still closed to the world, and you think we took a long time to get the tourists back.
I remember being in houses that were so cluttered the only way to declutter would have been a skip. Don’t get me wrong, they were fantastic, but if you think you have a lot of crockery, head to a Japanese house and pop into the kitchen. From floor to ceiling, stuff stacked everywhere.
And out in the dining room, well, the dining floor, it’s not just you and the family on the ground, you share it with a rice cooker and a huge electric urn. Which is great because you never have to stand up for an extra serve of rice or hot water for your green tea. Most of the rooms, back in my day, also had a couple of overflowing ashtrays for dad.

I worked as an English teacher when I was there, aged about 22. Well I was an assistant English teacher. Often working with English teachers who had no English speaking ability at all. Not their fault, just the way the system was. Lots of written English, just not much speaking. Which is why they shipped in a load of assistants from English-speaking countries around the world. But it could be hard going. Like the time in class when a 13-year-old boy asked me in very polite English if I was a virgin. It was a yes/no question, just like the teacher had asked the students to prepare. But I was not prepared and just opened and shut my mouth. The teacher turned to me and managed to say “please answer”. Things got strange after that. And the kid got a hell of a beating. Once again, just the system at the time.
Lots of people also talk about how beautiful Japan is, which is true, if you look in the right direction. I don’t think many people would say Tokyo, with its high rises and electric wires everywhere, is beautiful. And there are plenty of lovely gullies, or perhaps were, filled with no longer wanted rusting cars. It is the land of throw away – I knew many foreigners who were able to furnish their apartments just from a stroll down the road. And that included almost new TVs.
And I am not sure all Japanese people love their countryside. I lived there, after the government teaching stint, in an apartment with my Japanese boyfriend. We had no parking spots so we parked over the road outside a shrine. I went over one day to use the car and found a stack of cigarette butts next to it. He had just cleaned it out and dumped them as an easy tidy-up. I went off my head and not long after that found myself back in Australia. I think I realised despite how much I love the country, and I do, I was Australian after all. Mum was pretty happy with that decision too!
Anyway, as soon as the borders are open I am heading back for the first time in perhaps four years to enjoy a pretty bento box and a cold sake (only bogans drink it heated) and Kyle can have an ice-cold Asahi and one of those fluffy white sandwiches with absolutely no nutritional value at all.
And if we have to wear masks then that’s OK. Japan has been well ahead of that curve for years. Even a visit to Japan with a mask would spark joy. Just sayin’…

A popular poet once wrote:

“Half of the people can be part right all of the time,
Some of the people can be all right part of the time,
But all of the people can’t be all right all of the time,
I think Abraham Lincoln said that,
I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
I said that.”

Full marks if you recognise Talkin’ World War III Blues, from the 1963 record The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.
In the mid-1980s, before I’d discovered the marvellous Melbourne public transport system, I drove my car to work each day, from St Kilda to the Melbourne CBD. Along with hook turns and roundabouts, sitting in the wrong side of the car while on the wrong side of the road, I had to come to terms with Victorian concepts about motoring.
One morning, after a particularly stressful journey in to work, I arrived at the office and began to rant (readers of this fine publication are well accustomed to the meaning of that word, thank you, Mr Barnes).
It went something like this: Damned Australian drivers, you treat the posted speed as a minimum, you think tailgating is a competitive sport, and you think it’s required that you pass anyone who’s in front of you, regardless of traffic conditions!

One of my co-workers, Jamie, one of the finest, wisest people I’ve ever known, with a supremely dry sense of humour, listened to my outburst, looked me square in the eyes, and said: “Now you know the rules, what’s the problem?”
It was a simple yet eloquent response, one I’ve since applied to many situations.
As for knowing the rules, one of the trickiest parts about driving in and around Melbourne for me was managing what we called The Amazing Disappearing Lanes.
In almost every suburb around the city, we’d be going along fine, two lanes in each direction, when, with almost no warning, the road narrowed to two lanes through a neighbourhood shopping strip, forcing everyone in the disappearing lane to merge into the remaining lane. It seemed to us that the merging part of the situation was one in which not many Victorians excelled. Or else we didn’t know the rules.
As former California drivers, we’d concocted a fanciful mythology about well-trained, courteous drivers who obeyed the rules of the road and looked out for one another. Now, after a few years being back among our compatriots, I can report that Californians share every fault displayed by our Victorian friends – plus a few extras.
There is one road practice that our new neighbours have forgotten. On almost all cars is a mysterious lever on the column near the steering wheel. If you push this lever down or lift it up a clicking sound begins and a little light flashes on the instrument panel, sometimes to the right and sometimes to the left of the speedometer. Most Californian drivers find this noise and the blinking lights extremely annoying so they avoid touching that lever.
A few American traffic engineers have been experimenting with roundabouts, and there is one that’s been built recently on a road we sometimes take. The most recent time, I came up to it and there was just one other car in sight, in front of me, whose driver was utterly flummoxed by the concept. I don’t know how long he’d been parked there, trying to work out how to proceed, but my arrival spurred him into action and he slowly drove into the circle and out one of the exits.
I shudder to think what might happen if they introduce hook turns here. But, now you know the rules …

After many happy years living in Victoria and working at The Age, former Wheatsheaf resident Jeff Glorfeld, and his wife Carol, went back to California, the land of his birth, where in the past four years he has survived bushfires, snowstorms and drought. And Trump. And Covid. The cicadas and locusts didn’t arrive. Well, not yet.

Hepburn Shire Council is embarking on a ambitious strategic planning program that will span across the Shire. Creswick is the first township in a series of five nominated within the planning program to develop a structure plan.  This comes after the review and adoption of a new planning scheme in during 2020-2021, and which was approved by the Minister for Planning in February this year.

Mayor, Cr Tim Drylie, noted that Creswick will be the first township in the shire to go through the structure plan development.

“During the engagement we held for the Community Vision and Council Plan liveability was nominated as a high priority.  Strong planning controls in place to retain the character, liveability, and lifestyles that the community values were priorities. At the time, feedback indicated a strong concern for the preservation of farmland, sustainable development supported by appropriate infrastructure, and recognition of the important link between history and the area’s identity,” said Cr Drylie.

A Structure Plan guides the development of a township and expresses the desired outlook for the future of a town. It plans how things like new buildings, parks and infrastructure should develop over time.

The Creswick Structure Plan will manage residential growth, provide for employment, land and community infrastructure to 2042, while protecting and enhancing its unique historic character.

“The Structure Plan will ensure that we have the right mix of residential and commercial activities within Creswick. It will clarify the town’s capacity for growth in terms of height and scale of development, streetscapes and public space improvements, and the town boundaries,” said Cr Drylie.

The Creswick Structure Plan key themes are:

• Housing, including affordable housing
• Indigenous Heritage
• Heritage
• Transport
• Biodiversity
• Bushfire risk
• Agriculture
• Sustainability
• Economic Growth

The objectives of the Structure Plan are to:

• To manage growth and facilitate change within the existing define township boundaries
• To review township boundaries and to identify new areas for residential growth and employment land
• To provide a coordinated program for infrastructure delivery including transport, community infrastructure and the public realm
• To identify the need for any future land use and built form development guidelines to enable streamlined and timely decision making
• To acknowledge the need for affordable housing and to identify suitable sites

Council will be engaging with the community about their vision for Creswick through community sessions in early May and feedback collected via an online survey. For more information at https://participate.hepburn.vic.gov.au/structure-plans.

Kyneton Town Hall has had a few practice swings, in preparation for its re-opening after two years of
closures, but this May it will really come alive, with a ‘Month of Madness’ – a packed program of
quality comedy, theatre and music to delight.
It all kicks off on Friday 6 May with a celebration of what lies ahead. The ‘Month of Madness’ mini
launch will include a Smoking Ceremony and Welcome to Country, an introduction to the program on
offer, complimentary finger-food on arrival, drinks at bar prices and light entertainment with The
Sounds of Silent playing live accompaniment to short Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin movies.
Tickets purchased on the night will also receive a 15% discount (please note some exclusions apply)!
Whether you prefer the rollicking roadshow of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, or the
technological comic mayhem of Game Boys Cinematic Universe, the dulcet tones of Queenie van de
Zandt singing Joni Mitchell’s renowned album Blue, or the smooth melodies and insightful stories of
Kutcha Edwards in Circling Time – there is bound to be something to tantalise your tastebuds.
Director of Community, Maria Weiss confirmed it’s an event not to be missed.
“It is going to be one jam-packed month at Kyneton Town Hall this May, and we are so excited to
celebrate with a mini-launch for everyone who has missed live theatre and entertainment.”
“We’ve missed holding these events as much as people have missed coming to them,” she said.
Macedon Ranges Shire Mayor, Cr Jennifer Anderson, further encouraged locals and visitors to make
the most of the ‘Month of Madness’ events as well as the discounts on offer at the Friday 6 May
launch.
“It’s fantastic to see many performers coming back to Kyneton Town Hall. Some of these performers
haven’t been able to do what they do best for some time, so please support them and treat yourselves
to a night of live theatre!”
“There are plenty of exciting shows to choose from”, she added.
The ‘Month of Madness’ mini launch will be held at 5.30pm on Friday 6 May 2022 at Kyneton Town
Hall. Bookings are recommended.
For more details visit: mrsc.vic.gov.au/See-Do/Events/Events-Activities/2022-Event-Program-MiniLaunch or call 1300 888 802.

Encouraging young Victorians to pursue a career in the civil construction industry, the state government’s regional road maintenance blitz is making a significant investment into supporting apprentices across the state.
Meeting with future roadworkers in Ballarat this week, Minister for Roads and Road Safety Ben Carroll said this year’s regional road maintenance program is providing opportunities for 11 apprentices right across regional Victoria.
From bases in Ballarat, Bendigo, Horsham, Swan Hill, Bairnsdale and Avoca, these apprentices work alongside experienced teams from the Department of Transport’s in-house crews to build their knowledge in road rebuilding, repairs, resurfacing, sealing and line marking.
In addition to this first-hand experience out on the network, the apprentices attend in-person and online classroom sessions, working towards attaining their Certificate III in Civil Construction via SkillInvest.
The qualification will allow the apprentices to work in road maintenance, road construction and other prominent civil construction projects right across Australia.
More broadly, the government’s regional road maintenance blitz is keeping communities connected with education, employment, family, and friends by delivering more than 1,050 individual road maintenance projects right across regional Victoria.
Crews are also busy mowing thousands of kilometres of roadside grass and repairing and replacing more than 7,000 roadside signs.
This significant investment continues to deliver for regional economies, keeping motorists safe, and farmers, manufacturers, and freight operators connected with trade opportunities and supporting jobs right across the supply chain, from workers on the ground through to suppliers based right across the state.

More Victorians will have a place to call home thanks to the state government’s investment in social housing, with construction now underway to deliver 39 new houses in Ballarat and Horsham.
Minister for Housing Richard Wynne has the construction site of 14 new homes being built in Ballarat under a $5.8 million project, with a government investment of $4.5 million.
The Ballarat development will have a mixture of two, three and four-bedroom homes, and is expected to provide homes for 44 people, while also creating 52 local jobs.
The Horsham development of 25 new homes is an $8.1 million project, with a government investment of $6.3 million, that will provide a mixture of one and two-bedroom homes. The project will also create 72 local jobs.
Both the Ballarat and Horsham projects now underway are being built in partnership with Haven; Home, Safe, a community housing organisation that will manage the tenancies when complete.

Hepburn Shire Council appears to have done a backflip on the sale of The Rex building in Vincent Street.

On April 7 this year, Mayor Cr Tim Drylie told The Local that, in accordance with the Local Government Act, the November 2021 motion to cease the Hepburn Hub project and sell The Rex building could not be rescinded “as officers have commenced actioning it”.

Yet, the council has, this afternoon, Wednesday, April 27, issued a media release with Cr Drylie saying the council wants to “consider community views before ultimately deciding to proceed or not with the sale”.

“While at this point, we don’t see a clear purpose for retaining The Rex, given the lack of finances to undertake any works at the site, if there is strong community support for using The Rex for a worthwhile and suitable purpose, we may be open to exploring alternate ideas, but they would need to be assessed for financial viability and on a range of other factors”, Cr Drylie said.

“While at this point, we don’t see a clear purpose for retaining The Rex, given the lack of finances to undertake any works at the site, if there is strong community support for using The Rex for a worthwhile and suitable purpose, we may be open to exploring alternate ideas, but they would need to be assessed for financial viability and on a range of other factors.

“It is important to note that council will not revive the Hepburn Hub at The Rex project as it is outside the scope of what we can consider now. We understand the disappointment that many people in the community will be feeling now that we are beginning the sale process for The Rex. However, it is important that we focus our energies on the next steps which is in part to undertake a planning project that will review possible solutions of staffing accommodation and community facilities that were to be included in the Hepburn Hub.”

Council is inviting individuals and community groups to complete a short survey regarding the intended sale of The Rex building. Community groups are encouraged to discuss the proposed sale with their members.  Council is not seeking detailed submissions or business cases. 

More information on the survey and the discussion paper are available on the council’s Participate Hepburn website.

Complete a short survey via Participate Hepburn at https://participate.hepburn.vic.gov.au/.  

Submissions can be made until 5pm on Friday, May 20.

The release said it was expected the council will make a decision on the sale of the building in June or July.

The council purchased the building in 2016 to accommodate a new library, council offices, public toilets, community auditorium and community co-working space, known as the Hepburn Hub project. 

Words: Donna Kelly

There was plenty of action at the Laurie Sullivan Oval at Hepburn on Saturday, April 23, as Hepburn and Daylesford vied for the Bill Malone Cup. The final score was Hepburn – 19.14-128 winning over Daylesford – 11.9-75. Images: Kyle Barnes

THIS Friday, April 29, keen golfers from across the region will descend on the Hepburn Springs Golf Club to raise funds for Cafs (Child and Family Services, Ballarat) and to remember the late Ian Stanley, who was a great supporter of the Hepburn Springs Golf Club, in the annual Tee Up for Kids Foundation Ian Stanley Classic.
Ian was a champion both on and off the course. He was involved at the Hepburn Springs Golf Club for many years and, among his other achievements, was a founding director of the Tee Up for Kids Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which raises money for under-privileged children in Victoria.
This year, proceeds from the Ian Stanley Classic will be directed to Cafs Thread Together program. Cafs Thread Together Hub services the Central Highlands region providing people in need with new clothing and is the first of its kind in regional Victoria.
Funds will be directed specifically to supporting young people with new clothing, allowing recipients to dress with dignity, removing another barrier to continuing their education and ensuring that each child has the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Ian Stanley’s close friend Rodney Robinson has donated the putter that Ian used in his 2001 Senior British Open win. The putter that Ian gifted to Rodney is now on display at the Hepburn Springs Golf Club as the Classic’s perpetual winners’ trophy.
Golfer and friend Pat Baird said Ian’s achievements and contributions to Australian golf were often underestimated.
“Many who knew Ian can attest to the fact that he was a great character, larger than life and a champion golfer. He was a winner of 19 events on the PGA Tour of Australasia, one on the European Tour and three on the Senior European Tour including the 2001 Senior British Open. Ian was both a champion on and off the course, relentlessly active in supporting grassroots golf. He was introduced to the club by long term member, Rodney Robinson and over a 10-year period helped the HSGC raise in excess of $200,000 through the Spa Country Ambrose Golf Day held in October each year. After 12 years the event is still going strong and is still supported each year by AFL greats Mark Maclure and Tony Jewell who Ian also introduced to the club. All three are honorary Members for Life of the Hepburn Springs Golf Club because of their generous contributions.”

I DO love this country but my God we pay a lot of tax.
In Australia, our highest PAYE tax bracket is 39 per cent and GST is 10 per cent, so why do we pay so much tax when other countries such as Alaska use alternative sources of revenue that can offset the need to tax residents, revenue like tourism and natural resources.
Alaska generates 90 per cent of its revenue from its oil and gas industry and boasts a zero per cent income tax rate. Oil-rich countries like Oman and Qatar are also in the same boat. Then there are countries like the Bahamas or the Maldives who generate enough revenue from tourism to fund a government without the need for an income tax on residents.
Meanwhile Australia is rich with mining and has proven reserves equivalent to 2.9 times its annual consumption so is able to export oil, gas, iron ore and that horrible contentious black rock. Australia also has a huge international tourism market that, although a little stunted now, is forecast to spring back to full steam by mid-2023. But we still insist on pressuring our residents with a butt-load of tax, in fact, pound for pound one of the biggest butt-loads in the world.
It does make you think/angry when you take time to drill down into the figures what your earnt dollar in Australia is worth after all the little tax piggies take a nibble.
Before you bring that dollar home you pay around 30 per cent, leaving you with 70 cents and don’t forget the drive home. Before they removed some of it, the excise on fuel was around $0.44 cents per litre and then you pay GST on the excise. WTF?
I reckon by the time you have paid PAYG tax, GST, fuel excise, car registration and all the other small taxes that go unnoticed, such as rates, every week you are left with a post-tax take home wage of 25 cents on the dollar that you earn, ouch.
Meanwhile the various levels of government greedily carve up your taxes of which 80 per cent of the initial 75 cents in the dollar they took, is spent on government self-management and due process rather than outcomes.
At least we don’t pay is a death tax but my accountant Matt from Cooke and Foley Ballarat says one of the biggest tax traps is the misconception that your principal place of residence is always tax-free.
If you happen to own a home and have the chance to get some money out of the price boom by subdividing and realising the value of your home the mongrels at the ATO can clip the ticket on the piece you subdivide once sold for capital gains tax.
So, even though you scrimp and save your post-tax take-home wage of 25 cents on the dollar and manage to pay off the biggest investment of your life, your home, subdivide it to feather your nest and of course help the housing crisis, once again the taxman comes calling.
To add insult to tax-sucking injury we now have to toss up who gets to run the swamp up there in Canberra. Both candidates come with a shopping list of idiosyncrasies. In the right corner you have a dude who every time he seems to mention Jenny gets into media trouble, and in the left, a fella who doesn’t seem to be across the numbers. God help us all. 2021/2022 Tax rant over…

Earth movers

Paper scissors, blue handle, blunt cutting blades that work best on tissue, old newspaper. Sister and I play the humming game. Try and out-do each other, humming as hard as we can with mouths shut. Until we run out of air, scare the dog. Shushed by television news, witnesses re-create traffic accidents, school-run bank robberies. Ruby moon lets itself in through flyscreen. Our lungs fill with pink-red and technicolour.

The glue stick unlidded, dries, and turns grey. Coloured cardboard, pens like thick matchsticks, left in another room. Ruby moon cooled yellow amidst fast decades. An eyelash may fall onto the plateau of your cheek, stuck there by moisture in the wind. Tomorrow earth diggers return to carve up the neighbours’ block, crane arm cocked to the sunrise. Time moves bluntly. Soil razored by sharp instruments, capable of cutting heavier things than paper.

• Stephanie Powell

Stephanie Powell lives in Melbourne but enjoys spending time and writing in Hepburn Springs. She is the recipient of the Melbourne Poets Union Poetry Prize, 2022. More poetry can be found on her website: atticpoet.com

Local Lines comes mainly from a group of local poets but other submissions are always welcome. To have a poem considered for publication contact Bill Wootton at cottlesbreedge@gmail.com

Organisations in Hepburn Shire have shared $23,000 under the latest round of the council’s Community Grants Program.
Mayor Cr Tim Drylie said small amounts of grant money could make a big difference in the community. “The program provides community groups with much needed funds to deliver projects that might not have been possible without this support”.

Projects included: a defibrillator/Daylesford Table Tennis Association – $2500, The Day of the Wombat/Hepburn Wildlife Shelter – $2500, Clunes: Anthology of Works/Clunes Writers’ Group – $1671, Trentham Timeline Project/Trentham and District Historical Society – $2500, Wholefoods 10th Anniversary Cookbook/Hepburn Wholefoods Collective – $1795, Australian Orienteering Carnival/Locals Subsidised Entry/Orienteering Victoria – $2500, Seed Collection for the Future/Seeding Victoria/Creswick) – $2491, Classics for Kids/U3A Hepburn Shire – $1800, Trentham Lions Wood for the Needy/Trentham Lions Club – $2000, Additional Relief for Vulnerable Persons/St John’s Creswick Emergency Relief – $2000 and Open House Shared/Clunes Neighbourhood House – $2000.
The final round of Community Grants 2021/2022 closes on April 28.

Running the Daylesford Cinema out of the former court house in Camp Street, now the Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre, would not be feasible, a study has found.
The study looked into the technical feasibility of modifying the building to establish and operate a cinema, heritage conditions that applied to the court house, and the implications for the ongoing operation of the DNC.
Daylesford Community Theatre president Gina Lyons said the committees of both organisations had worked collaboratively to seek a home for the Daylesford Cinema. “While the court house option did not end up being sensible to pursue, the process undertaken by the steering committee proved to be pivotal and meant that the use of limited financial resources to undertake a more detailed feasibility was unnecessary. DCT will keep exploring viable options to enable the community to benefit from a community theatre.”