The Maddicks family estate has been supporting the Daylesford Hospital since 1999 thanks to
family friend and executor Tim Byrne, who recently donated $100k, bringing the total giving to an
incredible $273k.
This latest donation will be used to purchase essential equipment for use in the hospital’s acute
care facility and operating theatre.
The Maddicks family arrived in Daylesford during the early gold rush days of the 1850s, where
three generations lived and worked. Henry Jnr (Harry), Margaret (Peggy) and Kevin were the
children of Henry and Anastasia Maddicks. Henry Snr ran the Delta Photographic Studios from
1906 for over 60 years, and many of his treasured photos are archived at the Daylesford Museum.
Harry was a keen radio enthusiast and established a shop selling radios and household electrical
appliances, and he continued to run the photographic business after his father’s death.
Kevin, who joined the war effort, was sadly killed while on service in New Guinea in 1945.
Their sister, Peggy, was an active tennis club member and quietly involved with many community
groups.
None of the siblings married, and although private and reserved, they were actively volunteered in
many of the community organisations and causes. Harry was particularly interested in assisting
the WWII refugees from the Baltic states at the Bullarto camp.
Central Highlands Rural Health’s Fundraising Committee Chair, Kate Redwood, was absolutely
delighted to receive such a significant donation from this much-loved Daylesford family.
“How wonderful that their legacy lives on nearly 25 years after their passing. I’m sure many
Daylesford locals will remember Harry and Peggy fondly,” she said.
“They had an incredible impact on the community while they were alive and continue contributing
to the well-being of Daylesford residents through their estate.”
Central Highlands Rural Health’s mission is to provide the best care to every person, every time.
We continue to focus on fundraising for medical equipment upgrades, resident and patient
resources, facility upgrades, and staff learning and development in line with this mission.
Every donation helps to improve the health and well-being of our community. Can you give a gift
to Central Highlands Rural Health? Donation and fundraising enquiries from individuals,
community groups and businesses are always welcome. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with
Kathryn Kosloff, Fundraising Manager, on (03) 5321 6555 or via giving@chrh.org.au

Whoever said doing good deeds feels like hard graft probably hasn’t
met The Royal Daylesford Social Golf Crew.
The crew is a social club, formed out of a collective wish to keep
physically and mentally fit during Covid.
Now, roughly a year on from when it formed, the crew has done more than
merely achieving those original goals. It has also raised a tidy $1000 that it’s now
preparing to present to the Hepburn Wildlife Shelter.
“We’re a golf club and a social club that came out of Covid,” explains Royal
Daylesford Social Golf Crew president Dale Flynn, pictured teeing off with, from
left, Jan Geddes and Rob Loxton.
“The first day we were allowed to get out on the golf course the Royal Daylesford
Hotel said if you can get 10 people together we’ll sponsor shirts for you. Well,
we’ve ended up with 25 shirts and we now have on average 25 members. We play at
Trentham golf course every Sunday and we have members from all walks.
“We’re open to anybody who wishes to come and enjoy a bit of golf and a bit of
fun and it’s not really about being a good golfer. We’re hacks, most of us. But we’re
just growing, just developing.”
While the focus is very much on socialising and enjoying life while fostering
health of body and mind, the crew has also been running a regular Saturday
afternoon raffle at the Royal Daylesford.
And it’s this habit that has now seen them raise the $1000 that Dale says will
be presented outside the pub to Hepburn Wildlife Shelter’s Gayle Chappell and Jon
Rowdon at 3pm on December 3.
He says that concern for the welfare of wildlife prompted the crew to select the
wildlife shelter to benefit from proceeds raised through the raffle.
“We got a committee together and started things rolling,” Dale said.
“We’re all locals and we all care for wildlife. We’re devastated by the horror on the
roads, the tragedies that we see on the roads with wildlife.”
Dale said everyone was welcome to get along to next month’s afternoon
presentation of the cheque, while the Saturday raffle was intended to keep going and
to continue raising dollars for the same good cause.
“That is our plan,” he said. “We actually have three raffle draws at the hotel at
2pm every Saturday. A meat tray, a barbeque pack that is vegetarian-friendly and then
we also have a bottle of wine.
“We’ve had great support from the Royal Daylesford which has been a fantastic
supporter and from businesses and the community.”
Dale said anyone and everyone was welcome to become a member of the social
club and also to get along and grab themselves a raffle ticket or two.
“It’s drawn every Saturday at 2pm but you have to be there in person to claim it,”
he notes.
The Hepburn Wildlife Shelter’s Gayle Chappell said the crew’s donation was
likely to go towards covering vet costs for injured wildlife.
“We’re thrilled to have their support. It goes a long way because we’re entirely
reliant on donations and support from the public,” Gayle said.
Words: Eve Lamb | Image: Kyle Barnes

Retiring Western Victoria MP Jaala Pulford has announced a
$500,000 grant to the Central Victorian Goldfields World Heritage Masterplan that will support the
development of a bid for the region to achieve a World Heritage listing.
The masterplan will fund the
planning, PR and marketing required
to build a business case for this site to
become World Heritage listed.
The expected benefits of the
Victorian Goldfields becoming a World
Heritage site is an additional $435
million into the regional economy and 1750 jobs in tourism.
Covering an area of about 40,000 square kilometres north-west of Melbourne,
the 13 local government areas making up the Central Victorian Goldfields are seeking
the listing to celebrate this iconic region’s history and heritage.
Ms Pulford said she was delighted to announce the funding for the Central
Victorian Goldfields World Heritage Masterplan, “this funding will create more jobs
supporting our community”.
Ms Pulford’s media team did not reply to a question from The Local about
how AusNet’s plans to erect 85-metre high towers throughout the region to bring
renewable energy to Melbourne could impact on the bid.

Labor has committed to invest $71 million to completely change the way women’s health is treated in Victoria, if returned at this month’s state poll. Labor has committed to invest almost $58 million to create 20 comprehensive women’s health clinics across Victoria – a one-stop shop for women needing treatment or advice on issues from contraception to pelvic pain. The part says it will also work with Aboriginal health organisations to deliver an additional dedicated Aboriginal-led women’s health clinic, providing tailored support for Aboriginal women. And recognising the additional barriers experienced by women from multicultural backgrounds, the party has pledged to ensure clinics provide culturally-appropriate care for women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including refugees. An estimated 200,000 women in Victoria suffer from endometriosis. On average it takes seven years from the onset of symptoms to receiving a diagnosis – leaving women suffering pain that significantly affects their ability to live their lives. It leaves endometriosis sufferers being bounced around between doctors and specialists, feeling like they have to do their own research and be their own advocates in a system that’s too fragmented.It’s an experience also shared by older women. Around 85 per cent of women will experience symptoms related to menopause – but many suffer in silence. Premier Daniel Andrews:“For too long, too many women haven’t been listened to and their health issues have been ignored. This plan will transform women’s healthcare, ensuring every Victorian woman can access the support and treatment they need and deserve.”

Nine projects in the state electorate of Macedon have received grants from
the state government’s Living Local Fund.
Among those were Girl Guides Victoria – $47,000 for improvements to the
Daylesford Girl Guide Hall, Health Futures Australia – $10,125 for the SHIFT
Healthy Lunch Kitchen, a social enterprise providing subsidised nutritious and
affordable lunches to schools in Hepburn Shire and the Lyonville Community
Planning Group – $7057 for a community generator.

A working bee will be held at the Tylden Cemetery on Sunday, November 27
from 9am.
Bring rakes, spades, whipper snippers, mowers etc. For details contact Kath
Morrison on 5324 1583.

START worrying white males, your time is running out.
How do I know this? I read a call-out for people to join a local board.
Anyone can go for it but they especially encourage, in the same breath,
“women, people of all ages, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people
with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and
from LGBTIQ+ people”.
So, no white males need apply. I thought I might though. After all, I am a
woman, of a certain age, got a dodgy knee, speak Japanese and, while I am not
LGBTIQ+, I am interested in sex. I can’t tick the indigenous box but the family has
been here for quite a while – Ned Kelly and all that. I’ll let you know how I go.
Oh, after a lot of website clicks I found out you only need to be available one day
a month for the year and you get over $7000 for your contribution to society. Who
needs Powerball when you can become a board member?
You do have to be vaccinated under the current legislation but that will probably
wane, much like the vaccine currently in me, seven months since my last booster.
But, as we all know, Covid is over. Gone baby. Vamoosed. Look at the crowds at the
AFL grand final, the Melbourne Cup. Unless you are, of course, one of the 50 people
who died last week from the disease, or perhaps their family members.
Anyway, back to the call-out for the board members. It is nice they are being so
inclusive but what happened to A? As in LGBTIQA+. It seems to fall off every now
and again. Maybe it is acronym typing fatigue. And what is the A, I hear you ask.
Asexual. So Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Intersex, Queer and Asexual and then for anyone feeling a bit left out.
I sometimes wonder if all those groups want to be included with all those other
groups. I know we have the rainbow flag and all but at this rate it’s going to end up
alphabet soup. I wish the acronym was one I could remember a little easier. Or type a
bit faster – it does take some concentration. But I guess it is all about being inclusive.
Like the afore-mentioned rainbow flag. Which is now more inclusive than I ever
realised. We may need some new flags for ChillOut. Here’s why.
I asked Hepburn Shire about the colours of the Big Rainbow coming to
Daylesford soon. I wrote: “Just wondering why the rainbow starts with black and
then brown at the top. Rainbow flags start with red.” Or so I thought. Here goes with
their reply, which put me back in my place.
“There has been an evolution of Pride flags since 1977 when Gilbert Baker’s
design was originally nine colours: lavender, pink, turquoise and indigo stripes along
with the red, orange, yellow, green and violet. Over the years, most rainbow flags had
six colours, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.
“Black and brown were added to the rainbow to create in 2017 the Philadelphia
Pride Flag that is now used widely.
“The Big Rainbow’s colours start out with the colours of the Philadelphia Pride
Flag, and added the colours of pink, pale blue and white, so that ALL the colours of
the various Pride flags are included. The designers of the Philadelphia Pride Flag said
that black represented black people and brown represented people of colour (both
marginalised groups within the LGBTIQA+ community) but another interpretation
is that black band of the rainbow is in memory of those who have died of AIDS.”
So there you go. I bet even some LGBTIQA+ people didn’t know that.
Oops. Sorry. Just read the new Covid variant from Singapore is here and the latest
wave is just hitting the shores of Victoria. Where’s that N95 gone? Just sayin’..

ChillOut is among three organisations to receive funding for 2023 from
Victoria’s Regional Events Fund.
ChillOut received $50,000 to support the festival and raise the profile of the
shire, Winter Sounds received $50,000 to support a four-day series of performances
and Woodend Winter Arts received $10,000 to support artists across Macedon with
40 events over the June 2023 long weekend.

Grey Cat
Self-anointed King of The Suburban Jungle
struts uninvited across my newly mown lawn
Expressionless yellow eyes stare purposefully ahead
Stunted, scarred ears pricked, ever on the alert
Arrogant moggy in your flea-bitten coat
How I envy your poise and self-assurance
Oblivious to mortality, you spend your mornings
in sunny repose beside the garden shed
your afternoons in disdainful exploration of the yard
The birds try your patience – let’s have some fun
Blackbird beware, sparrows flee, house mouse run!
Smug, plump moggy so deceptively swift, so often thwarted
Despised despot, I don’t envy your itinerant lifestyle
Time you were going, drop your foul offerings elsewhere
Ha, how swiftly you move to evade a flying boot!

• Julie Moran
  Julie left early childhood education
  to pursue her passion for writing:
  she’s kicking herself for not
  escaping earlier. Life’s intricacies
  and the ever-changing landscape
  around her home at Newlyn North
  provide constant wonder and
  inspiration.
  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

MOST everyone has antiques of some kind in and around their
home, and by antique I don’t mean beat-up old slobs like me.
They might be in a prized collection, or just quirky stuff inherited
from a dear old aunt, or treasured family heirlooms. Webster’s dictionary defines
an antique as “a work of art, piece of furniture, or decorative object made at an
earlier period and according to various customs laws at least 100 years ago”.
According to Wikipedia, an antique “is usually an item that is collected or
desirable because of its age, beauty, rarity, condition, utility, personal emotional
connection, and/or other unique features”.
Firstly, collector or hoarder?
I think of myself as being between a collector and a hoarder. I have a stupid
amount of recorded music, stacks of books, and a huge stash of memorabilia.
Some of this stuff might be collectable, but is any of it antique?
As it turns out, I might actually have at least one genuine antique in among
my flotsam and jetsam, and having been made aware of it by my super sleuth
wife Carol, it got me to thinking about how a thing might wind up being old
enough to be an antique.
This antique of ours is a vase, average size, lovely, but not instantly
impressive. In my early 20s, in the mid-1970s, I moved into a nice little studio
cottage on the west side of Redding, California.
Redding, California
One of its best features was a shady little front courtyard. I didn’t know who
had lived there before me but everything about the place was clean and tidy. Out
in the courtyard, previous residents had left behind a few things, including a
lustrous, pretty vase, dusty and neglected but intact.
I was living in this cottage when I met Carol, the woman who was to become
my wife. We stayed there for several months and then began a nomadic existence
that was to last for many years. When we moved out of our cottage, packing up
our modest belongings, Carol added the lustrous, pretty vase to our collection.
After a few stops around Redding, we moved to San Francisco, where we
lived in three different apartments in four years.
Beijing, China
In 1983 our hunger for adventure took us to Beijing, China. We travelled
light, leaving our growing collection of stuff, including the lustrous, pretty vase,
in boxes in the care of my parents. What was supposed to be a year in China
became almost three, followed by four months in Australia and the promise of
permanent residency in a country we quickly came to love.
We returned to the US in December 1985 to formalise our Australian
residency and reunite ourselves with our belongings. It turned out that while we
were in China my parents had also moved into a new house and had shifted our
boxes into a warehouse owned by one of their friends.
At some point the warehouse had been flooded and some of our books and
furnishings had been ruined. We packed up what we could salvage and sent it to
Melbourne. Was this the lustrous, pretty vase’s first sea voyage?
St Kilda, Australia
We stopped in St Kilda in 1986 – not exactly settled – we moved a few times,
but in 1991 we again packed up our stuff, including the pretty little vase, and
returned to California.
That turned out to be a bad idea so in 1993 we once again tossed all our
accumulated goods into boxes and returned to St Kilda, eventually moving from
an apartment into our own place, where we unpacked the lustrous, pretty vase
once again.
Wheatsheaf
In 2001 everything was again stuffed into boxes to be shipped from St Kilda
to Wheatsheaf. Finally, it felt like we were home.
The lustrous, pretty vase was unpacked and placed on a shelf, admired and
wondered at, one of Carol’s prized possessions.
Travels with, and without, our vase by Jeff Glorfeld
And back to California
In 2018 we once again filled boxes and shipped all our stuff back to
California, where we now reside. The lustrous, pretty vase made another ocean
crossing – number four, by my reckoning – and took its place on a shelf alongside
our other treasures.
Recently, however, Carol the high-tech sleuth found that technology had
finally caught up with her curiosity.
We’d packed and unpacked the vase 20 times at least, its history went from
the very beginnings of our relationship right up to the present day, and who even
knew what its existence had been before joining up with our wandering caravan.
Now, the internet gave her the ability to track down the vase’s origins.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Carol had long-ago noticed distinctive markings etched into the bottom of
the lustrous, pretty vase. Now, patient web searching led her to the Rookwood
Pottery Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, which, according to the company’s
website, was founded by Maria Longworth Storer in 1880, and is “the first large
manufacturing enterprise founded and owned by a woman in the United States
and launching the art pottery movement in America”.
Further markings on the bottom of the vase led Carol to discover that it
had been made by a potter named Harriet Elizabeth Wilcox, who worked at
Rookwood “for many years”. Very little is known about “Hattie”, according to
a collector website, except that “she decorated from 1886 until the 1930s”, and
that “collector interest in her pieces is considered to be average”.
Priceless
When people haul their stuff out to one of those Antiques Roadshow TV
shows, what do they think if it turns out their item is worth thousands? I don’t
know what our lustrous, pretty vase is worth in dollars, but in terms of my life
and history it is priceless.
After many happy years living in Victoria,
former Wheatsheaf resident Jeff Glorfeld,
and his wife Carol, went back to California,
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.

First steps for success
My wise old grandfather once told this doting young six-year-old that he would
rather put a sixpenny plant into a ten-shilling hole than a ten-shilling plant into a
sixpenny hole.

Obviously the ideal would be to put the ten-shilling plant into a ten shilling hole, but his message was clear.
No matter how vigorous and healthy your plants may be when you buy them,
their ultimate success depends on the quality and condition of the soil into which
they are to be planted.
Good soil
It’s an all too common belief to assume that as long as the plant is strong and
growing healthily, it will thrive in any soil with the aid of plenty of water and an
application of a heavy dose of fertiliser. There is much more to it than that. We would
be lucky to be blessed with naturally perfect soil, in whatever climate or area we live.
Good garden soil should be of a texture that will hold plants securely in place,
release plant foods slowly over a long period and retain moisture like a sponge, while
at the same time allowing any surplus water to drain away.
In most beds and borders, soil can be improved by adding fertiliser and humus,
but if it’s very poor – such as almost pure sand or very heavy clay – it could be best to
dig it out to about a spade’s depth and replace it, either with good imported loam,
or your own mixture of one third sand, one third of the clay loam, and a third of
well-rotted compost, plus some complete fertiliser applied in accordance with the
recommendations on the package.
Drainage and enriching the soil
With the physical character of the soil now improved, it should retain moisture
well, yet provide good drainage of any surplus water. Few plants thrive in soggy soil.
The roots of all plants require air as well as moisture, for without it they can soon
perish, no matter how rich the soil.
In addition to good drainage, plants need an adequate food supply, mainly
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash.
Homes & Gardens 21
Any ‘complete’ fertiliser should contain all three, plus very small quantities of
such elements as boron and iron – mere traces of which are required for healthy plant
growth.
If the soil in your garden beds, or to be used in containers, has been physically
improved by the addition of humus (compost), little additions of any further plant
food should be needed for the rest of the season.
Dear Glen,
Our two-year-old box hedge has started to take off with the spring rains and we are
not too sure about pruning requirements. Hoping for some guidance as to when we should
prune it for the first time and how low we should take the growth down.
Thanks, Lindsay & Nick
Hi Lindsay & Nick,
You’ve struck paydirt with your new hedge, partly because it’s so healthy, but
mainly because you’ve caught it early enough to avoid the bane of all hedge owners

woody, straggly, skeletal structures.
The answer is simple and it starts with you. Trim little, trim often – never let it get
away on you or you will need several years of heavy-duty trimming to get it back into
shape.
So start out right now, take back all of those already bare and woody branches to
level them with everything else. I’ve highlighted with the star the most obvious one in
your photo, above.
Then merely trim the tips of each shoot back to the first branching out on each
stem each time and do your best to keep them even. And you’re on your way.
Happy hedging, Glen.
Got a gardening question? Email glenzgarden@gmail.com

WITH Halloween done and dusted for the year, the wigs, hats, and
assortment of “scary” things have been popped into landfill to be
marvelled at by the apes that take over the world in 200 years.
And now the supermarkets are turning our attention to Christmas, and the beat
goes on.
I did have a crack at Halloween when I was a kid in New Zealand, however it sort
of disappeared and came back around 10 years ago. I think it had something to do
with the show Modern Family who were completely bonkers for the Pagan religious
celebration which, BTW, was designed to welcome the harvest at the end of summer.
Once again, the folks from the antipodes steel another northern hemisphere
celebration, put our own spin on it, take out the boring religious bits and overindulge
the kids.
I never received any visitors on the scariest of scary nights here at TL HQ,
obviously my sparkling personality wasn’t enough to attract the little buggers, cap in
hand, hunting for sugar hits. I had the gates firmly locked, and the full set of security
cameras on as I waited inside, determined not to be blackmailed into giving out
sweets. Besides if they had managed to get through my fortifications the best I could
muster was a sneaky little chardonnay, a spot of port or a Schmacko.
But back to the task at hand or at least six weeks away, when even the most aloof
of us (and I must admit that aloof is certainly the label I fall under if I could be
bothered labelling things) eventually bow to the human pressure of the one day of the
year that is responsible for the biggest amount of landfill of the year.
The majority of adults surround themselves with stuff they need to make them
comfortable and the rest is obsolete, so instead of wracking your brain to see what
your 100-year-old great Aunt Matilda could do with, if the occasion is that important
to you maybe ask the woman living in her car with a couple of kids what she would
want?
I am sure the answer would be a roof over their heads and some basic food and
necessities, maybe that’s what we should be teaching our overindulged youth.
I thought that the pandemic would teach us lessons in life, but from my
observations by and large we have gone back to doing what we did, without change.
Caught up in the consuming treadmill cycle of festivities, lurching from one
commercial occasion to the next.
Speaking of commercial, I had the opportunity to see a large advert for The Rex
in The Age a couple of weekends back. I called with a query but despite being on hold
for some time and then being put through to someone, they just took my number
and never called back.
Perhaps they Googled my name and thought I was just a tyre kicker. From
memory I think I was actually calling on behalf of The Local with a couple of media
questions. Like the price and the level of interest from buyers so far. The editor
mistakes me for a journo and makes me do stuff like that now and again.
Anyway, there is a great video about the place if you are keen. Head to the web
and realestate.com – just search Fitzroys, commercial and Daylesford. I guess someone
will buy it eventually. I mean, we, the ratepayers, did.
Urghh rant over…
Ed’s note: We did get some lollies in one Halloween while living in Frankston, but
not a single child turned up. Kyle eventually caved and said: “I’m heading to the local
shops to hand them out to the kids.” I replied I would see him in gaol. Really?

Home or gardenware gifts, ethically-produced meats, the freshest fruits and
veggies, your pick of great coffee, a pot & parma and so much more. It’s time to
remind ourselves of the value of buying local.
While we all know how rich and varied the landscape of our local businesses are, the
pandemic has shifted our focus online, while the rise of living costs and supply chain
issues have made us consider travelling further afield to larger stores – and we seem to have
forgotten just how valuable shopping locally can be. But in Clunes, the town has decided
to get together and make sure that as the holiday season hits, going local isn’t left to chance.
From now until the end of January, people in Clunes will be reminded of the value of
buying local, through initiatives created by Clunes Neighbourhood House (and its social
enterprise BOOM Clunes), Creative Clunes and the Clunes Tourist & Development
Association and funded by the state government, business chambers and trader groups.
The Go Local Clunes initiative sees local buyers being rewarded with their chance of
a monthly cash prize of $200 PLUS $100 weekly vouchers. Better yet, the more you shop
at local participating stores, the more chances to win. Winners will be announced online
and on the community notice board in the main street. This initiative is not just confined
to local retailers – professionals, tradies, farms or accommodation – anyone who operates a
business in Clunes can register to be involved.
For the local businesses, this initiative also includes funding for in-store events held
between November and January. It could include bringing in an expert to demonstrate
a product of your business, or radio advertising to promote a special in-store event – the
options are only limited by your imagination and the funding. (Until funding runs out!)
In addition, local businesses are eligible for promotion through social media and
storytelling content funding. Go Local initiatives like this are not unusual. In fact, Clunes
is deliberately building on the momentum of the Go Local First campaign that was started
during the pandemic, implemented by Hepburn Shire Council. What is unusual is Clunes
businesses and trader groups have worked together to develop and deliver this project.
“It’s no mean feat to roll out a town-wide promotional and support campaign,”
said Lana de Kort, chief entrepreneur at BOOM Clunes and manager of the Clunes
Neighbourhood House.
“That a small rural town like Clunes can do this is testament to the willingness of
businesses and trader groups to work together in order to strengthen our town.”
To find out more about the project visit www.boomclunes.org/golocal or contact the
Go Local Officer, Victoria on 0420 432 931. (Advertorial)