We want to encourage locals to use the website in a more interactive way. John Ross has set up our yandoit.net website with lots of options for information exchange. There’s also the possibility of changing the name to be more inclusive of Franklinford and Clydesdale which would require registering a new domain name. We will be calling a meeting of those interested in the website in the near future. Please contact John if you’re interested.
24-27 March 2014 in Bendigo.
Of interest to farmers, horticulturalists, ag scientists etc.
”You are invited to attend ‘Soil Change Matters’ an international workshop concerned with the scientific investigation of changes in soil and their effect on critical soil functions and ecosystem services.
The workshop is hosted by the Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries, and supported by Soil Science Australia and the following Working Groups of the International Union of Soil Sciences – Global Soil Change, Soil Monitoring, Proximal Soil Sensing, and Digital Soil Mapping.
The workshop is designed to bring together practitioners in policy, science and management to address the questions –
• What is changing in soil?
• Why does it matter (impact, extent, critical thresholds, system collapse) or does it? Who cares and who pays?
• How do we measure change and are we monitoring important changes?
• How fast are changes occurring and expected to occur?
• Should anything be done about these changes – science understanding, technical ability to measure and monitor change, policies for intervention or prevention.”
Shameless self-promotion!
Well I put the website together, so occasionally I get to indulge!
This is my hot new band with Doug Owen (vocals, guitar), Sean Hanrahan (lead guitar), Martin Myles (drums) and myself on electric upright bass.
Come early for dinner and stay for the show. $10 cover.
Bridge Hotel, 21 Walker St Castlemaine (near the botanic gardens)
It’s on again from 24th to 27th January at various venues around Newstead.
See http://www.newsteadlive.com/
Tickets: Weekend $95 ($90 on line). Children under 13 free.
Youth under 18 $20 if accompanied by an adult .. buy at the festival.
Day ticket Sat, Sun $50…buy at the festival
Day ticket Monday, evening ticket Fri, Sat, Sun, $30..buy at the festival.
If you are interested in coming to the second Yandoit history in story event on the theme of Yandoit Hills stone houses and vineyards please keep late afternoon /early evening of Saturday November 23rd free.
This will be a local community event and another edition of the Chronicle, coming soon, will provide details.
Yandoit ‘words in winter’ café
Yandoit history in story
Saturday August 3rd, 2013
4.00pm to 6.00pm at Yandoit Community Hall
Saturday August 3rd marks the first in a series of oral history events presented by Yandoit keepers of memories and stories. This first session will focus on Yandoit’s main street, High street and will bring together Don Morrison, Maurie Gervasoni and Fleur Smith, nee Staley. Don and Maurie are both descendants of original Yandoit settlers, and Fleur grew up in Yandoit Hills and attended the local school.
Don, Fleur and Maurie will share stories associated with the main street including the school, the hall, the store, the guest house and the dairy farm. We will have the opportunity to ask questions and be part of the discussion.
The first of many
This first Yandoit oral history and story-telling event coincides with Daylesford’s Words in Winter festival, and reflects the festival’s theme: ‘hidden treasures’. We envisage more oral history events being held over the next 18 months, stories told by local people including: Yandoit Hills’ stone houses and vineyards, Yandoit and the creeks, the churches, and the mines of Yandoit.
The beginnings of a Yandoit Archives
Stories, old letters, photographs and slides will be shared, passed on by our story tellers to the community. The event will be filmed and contribute towards an oral history archive for Yandoit.
Café Yandoit
Yandoit Hall will become a café for the afternoon as we sit around tables with locally made scones, jam and cream.
If you have questions, suggestions or are able to help in any way please contact Nikki Marshall on 0432 232073. A gold coin donation will contribute to the cost of the hall.
The information herein is irrelevant to you if you have a health care card and get your prescriptions for $5.80 anyway.
It had never occurred to me that it might be worth comparing prices for prescription medications, until a friend alerted me to it. And it is not just a matter of specific brand versus generic medication. I am a typical middle-aged male with a tendency to high blood pressure and cholesterol – hence I am prescribed several drugs on an ongoing basis. I do not have a health care card, so I pay the normal PBS price. Naively I assumed that PBS medications would be the same price everywhere. I would go along to the Chemmart pharmacy in Castlemaine and have my prescriptions filled as necessary. Then I discovered that the Chemist Warehouse chain offer the same medications at much reduced prices. Without disclosing the particular medications I am prescribed (but they are very commonly prescribed), here are some comparisons…
Chemmart Castlemaine Prices:
Item 1: $32.95 (specified brand)
Item 2: $20.45 (specified brand)
Item 3: $35.40 (generic, Pfizer)
Total: $88.80
Chemist Warehouse (Ballarat, Bendigo, Maryborough and other locations):
Item 1: $23.99 (same specified brand)
Item 2: $11.99 (same specified brand)
Item 3: $14.99 (generic, Sandoz)
Total: $50.97
This post is not an advertisement for Chemist Warehouse, so I won’t include a link to their website. There may be other chains, unknown to me, that offer a discount. The retail experience is quite different: Chemist Warehouse is to pharmacy what Bunnings is to hardware. I just want people to know that if they have a need to save some money on their regular medication costs, there is an opportunity to do so. Chemist Warehouse also offer a service whereby you can lodge your prescriptions with them and they will mail your medications to you for $8.95, or free if your order is over $99.00. They also publish their prices online.
This information is from ACOFS (Australian Council of Film Societies) Bulletin, July 2012.
“Discussions with some DVD distributors are under way to deliver a DVD rights process that is easier to use and fairer to the film societies and distributors. Feedback from film societies has illustrated that the charges for DVD rights are too high for the smaller society but the larger film societies may not find it difficult or
unreasonable to pay more for the DVD rights.
While distributors would like to see a price increase across the board, they may be willing to balance this by retaining the current prices for the mid range societies or even offering a bargain price for the smaller ones. Recognising that some societies use many more DVDs than others, we are also discussing the possibility of agreeing on a “blanket licence” along the lines of a bulk discount arrangement.
There will be more details to follow in later Bulletins, but for the moment I wish to thank all societies that have submitted DVD usage stats with their annual affiliation applications as these have allowed us to focus on the real needs of the societies and put real figures to the estimates under discussion.”
The Tennis Court opening and barbecue was well attended with the mandatory cutting of a ribbon and many locals, including our Mayor, displaying their prowess upon the pristine tarmac.
The refurbishment of the tennis court was a project of the Jim Crow Planning Group with funding and support from Hepburn Shire Council and the State Government.
The court is always open and available for use. It is marked for Tennis, basketball and netball.
