The Hepburn Springs Swiss and Italian Festa will run from Wednesday 30th October to Sunday 3rd November.
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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.
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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.
The 2012 Festa will run from Tuesday 30th October till Sunday 4th November. Program information will be available in late July.
Details: www.swissitalianfesta.com