News

The Friends of Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens, Daylesford are delighted with the success of their recent Autumn Raffle. Launched on March 20 at our Gardens Celebration Tea Party it was drawn at our Taylor and Sangster Lecture on June 17.

Ageing DisGracefully members, including Max Primmer, get together at the Daylesford Mill Markets cafe on Thursdays at 11am. All welcome.

IF YOU flip back to page 11 you will find Kevin Childs' story on the sad or sick state of our health system. Kevin talked to health workers, on the condition of anonymity, and wrote about how many things are going wrong - some life and death situations.

I WATCHED with interest our first intergalactic space launch from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Just a couple of days prior we had been reminiscing about our trip to Cooktown.

Local Lines

CENTRAL Highlands' artists and creative organisations are invited to hit the road and take their performances, exhibitions and events across regional and outer-metropolitan Victoria.

HEPBURN Shire Council has formally adopted its 2022/23 Annual Plan. Mayor Cr Tim Drylie said that the Annual Plan was based on key projects identified in the Budget 2022-2023 and included priorities in the adopted Community Vision 2021-2031 Council Plan 2021-2025, which includes the Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan.

BACK in September 2013, Glenlyon Anglican Church held a wonderful Blessing of the Pets service, above. Father Andrew Eaton met with a 20-strong crowd with their beloved pets - all canines on the day.

HEPBURN Springs Golf Club is among eight regional clubs across Victoria to receive major upgrades from state government funding.

FRANCE'S national day celebrations will be presented by the Daylesford Community Brass Band and U3A Hepburn Shire’s Le Cercle Français.

The 2022 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize, in partnership with Rabbit, a journal for nonfiction poetry, has been launched.

Maldon’s Porcupine Village tourist attraction will create more than 100 jobs and attract more visitors to the Central Goldfields region.

Hepburn Shire Council invites the community to get together this NAIDOC Week from Sunday, July 3 to Sunday, July 10.

Trentham Rural Australians for Refugees, with sponsorship from the Community Bank Trentham & Districts, worked with Trentham District Primary School principal Arthur Lane, to bring Refugee Week celebrations into the school.

Nominations are open for Victorian Senior of the Year. For more than 20 years, the awards have highlighted the role of seniors who inspire others as mentors, educators, role models, leaders – as well as their impact in supporting diverse causes and communities across the state.

Hepburn Shire residents and businesses can now have their say about community batteries.

Macedon MP Mary-Anne Thomas is Victoria’s new Minister for Health and Minister for Ambulance Services.

An article in a recent issue of The Local (Edition 255) is about the vote regarding the Big Rainbow, and is really testing our tolerance.

ACROSS the country, a medical crisis seems to have erupted. Some rural hospitals have become so short of staff the military has been called in. In the cities, reports abound of lines of ambulances and crowded waiting rooms.

ORGANIC waste generated from the cafe trade is very large. Although people may not realise it as they sip on their morning latte or fresh juice, the average cafe can easily generate over 80 kilos of organic waste a week.

Enjoy a magical Christmas shopping experience on Melbourne Cup weekend, at our Hanging Rock Market, on Saturday, October 29.

CLUNES is a place of firsts. First gold town. First Book Town and now the first country town to tackle the issue of ageing well in the community by bringing the conversation right to its own door.

FINALLY, after two cancellations due to, ahem, unforeseen circumstances, Winter Sounds is set to nourish the souls of music lovers of the shire and beyond.

In a way, the internet was made for people like Doug Larson, a journalist in the United States, writing for much of the 20th century for relatively obscure newspapers in Wisconsin, in the northern midwest.