Macar thur Advancement & Development Association Inc. Issue Nº 215 FEBRUARY 2017

MACARTHUR NEWS

The next General Meeting of the Macarthur Advancement & Development Association Inc.

Wednesday 8th February. 7.30pm at the Macarthur Senior Citizens rooms

GET INVOLVED IN YOUR

MUSIC FESTIVAL!

BIG MACARTHUR

WEEKEND

Macarthur’s Music in the Vines Committee is busy pre-

paring all the behind the scenes work to ensure the smooth

running of the second music festival on 4th March 2017.

It is pleasing to see enthusiasm from local groups becom-

ing involved in this year’s event. The Macarthur Primary

School will once again be running the BBQ and the

Macarthur Golf Club will supply the buggies to provide

transport from the carpark for those who need it. The

Macarthur Men’s Shed will be selling hot roast rolls, add-

ing to an expanding range of food options on the day.

A new addition to the Festival also include quality craft stalls. We have also selected 4 winners as part of our

Emerging talent competition and currently confirming their attendance as part of the event. Please follow the

website/Facebook page if you would like more information on this.

Get the word out, and let your friends know about this event. Saturday 4th March. Gates open at 10am and

close at 11pm. We live in a beautiful town, so let’s promote it!

We are still looking for more sponsors, so please give this some consideration, as it is essential for the

running of such an event and would be very much appreciated.

A GREAT Big thankyou to our sponsors so far: Parfrey Plumbing, Moyne Shire, Suffoir Vineyard,

ACE Radio, Star Printing, Macarthur Pub, JHP Security, Macarthur Park Country Cottages, RB Sellars, Dan

Tehan MP, Kerr & Co, Macarthur Rural Supplies, Hammonds Paints, Melville Orton & Lewis, Charles

Stewart, Dale Cleves Music.

And lastly, don’t forget to get your tickets early online at www.musicinthevines.com.au or at the Macarthur

pub or Mooney’s Café.

The bid for World Heritage listing for the Budj Bim Landscape moved a step closer to reality this month when the Federal Government formally recognized its’ importance and included it on their tentative list to be put forward for World Heritage recognition.

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Hinterland Screenprints

Wendy Black

17 February- March 17

Portland Bay Press

21 Julia st, Portland, Vic

#macblackprintroom

Macblackprintrooms@gmail.com

The spring months this year with rain-fall so late into the year, has resulted

in excessive grass growth. This has created a lot of issues for Council, namely:

The grass being so long ultimately slows our mowers down and therefore the rotation to get to each of the townships has been taking longer each time Some areas within some of our townships have been too wet when the mowers are in the town and have therefore not been mowed until the next rotation Council endeavours to get to each of our town-ships between 2 to 3 weeks. Unfortunately, in some instances this got out to 3 to 4 weeks with the significant growth. Most of the areas are now back in control and we appreciate the understand-ing and patience from our communities during this time.

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Macarthur Cemetery Trust

Our Cemetery enjoys complimentary re-

marks from the community and visitors,

whether for funerals, engaged in family

history research or just passing through.

Funeral directors too have praised the state

of our grounds and facilities. Generous

donations are also made from time to time

to aid the Board in its work.

Many challenges confront small cemetery

trustee boards, mainly of a financial na-ture, such as cost and maintenance of

equipment, mowers, fuel, weed control and other expenses. Fortunately ‘though, as all work is done on a voluntary basis, no

wages or associated costs are incurred. It

should be mentioned here that community

volunteers to help with these works will always be welcomed; also, that any such

volunteers are covered under our Personal Accident Insurance policy in the event of injury whilst working at the Cemetery.

The names of all other members of the Board are:

Tom Kelly Chairman Bernie Warren Hon. Sec/Treas

Darryl Kelley Board Alan Bunworth Board Malcolm Sharrock Board

Maurice Sullivan Board George Hill Board Bernie Warren

Hon. Sec/Treas

Macarthur Swimming Pool

The pool committee would like to wish the com-

munity a Happy New Year. You may have noticed

the pool having 2 life guards rostered on during open-

ing hours, well this has come about due to the

YMCA’s new policy ‘Safeguarding Children and Peo-

ple’. Therefore we would also like to welcome Ruby

Hill and Temika Gay to the Life guarding staff.

The committee would like to congratulate the Mor-

gan Family for winning the amount of their member-

ship back. Every year the committee hold a member-

ship drive and by purchasing your membership before

Christmas you go into a draw to win the amount of

your membership. If you haven’t bought a member-

ship there is still time to do so.

The pool has just finished 2 weeks of VicSwim

which was well utilized with 28 children participating.

It has been reported that we have had visitors from

not just Macarthur but from other areas such as

Hawkesdale, Koroit, Heywood and Hamilton and this

is due to our great facilities eg slide and the hospitali-

ty from the community and staff. We are currently

doing a lap challenge to see if anyone can swim to

either Hamilton (1,480 laps) or Warrnambool (2,840

laps) and there is still time to join in.

The pool committee would like to thank the com-

munity for their generous donations which have as-

sisted in the purchases of inflatables and large pool

mats.

We hope the school has good weather for their up-

coming swimming lessons and sports day.

Keep an eye out for other future events either on

our Facebook page or at the pool.

Macarthur Pool Committee

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MACARTHUR & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Inc.

END OF YEAR BREAKUP – 2016

Twenty four Society members and partners from Macarthur & Port Fairy travelled by bus and car to the end of year gathering at

Kirkstall Hotel for a hearty lunch, then to St. Brigid’s Church, Crossley on Sunday

11th December. On arrival at “St. B’s”, a very interesting

and informative tour took place in which the efforts of local community to save the marvelous old church and associated

structures were described, together with a detailed account of the history of the com-

plex as well as how it continues to serve the local community to this day.

This was followed by another most interest-

ing stop-off at Koroit to inspect and appre-

ciate the Koroit Historical Society’s rooms and collection in the old School House,

followed by a most enjoyable and welcome afternoon tea.

All those in attendance had a great day, and look forward to further such excur-sions in future, gaining additional ideas

about how best to improve and display our own growing collection of memorabilia in

the Court House.

The next meeting of the Historical Society

is tentatively planned for Thursday 16th

February so please keep this date free. The

secretary will contact members directly if

the date has to be changed.

Bernie Warren

Hon. Secretary

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Macarthur and District Lions Club

News

Members of the Macarthur Lions Club hope everyone

had a great Christmas and look forward to a fabulous

2017.

We would like to congratulate Joe Mooney on being

presented an Alan J Holding award from District Gov-

ernor Terry Heazlewood for his community work. Con-

gratulations Joe and keep up the good work.

Our club is starting to get busy with Australia Day

(which will have been and gone by the time this news-

letter goes to print). We are again catering for 2 days at

the Macarthur camp draft as well as helping at the Port

Fairy Folk Festival for 4 days, which we thank people

outside of Lions for their continued help and support

for these two big events.

Our members are attending and catering for our Lion’s

district cabinet meeting to be held in Macarthur at the

beginning of February.

Coins for Kids will once again be held with the help of

Macarthur Primary school children, more info when we

have dates organized. Challenge Cancer Kids Hamilton

camp will again be held during the April school holi-

days: our club hosts the group of kids for a day.

Our club has again given financial help to two families

in need in the last few months, we all hope that this has

been helpful to the families.

Christine Duyvestyn

Secretary: Macarthur and District Lions Club macar-thuranddistrictlionsclub@gmail.com

BIG MACARTHUR WEEKEND

The weekend of the 3rd, 4th and 5th March has

turned into the BIG MACARTHUR WEEKEND!

Apart from the Music in the Vines, the Macarthur

Camp Draft is being held at the Rec Reserve all

weekend. AGL will be organizing a bike ride on

the day, so be sure to follow the website/ Face-

book page for more information. On Sunday,

Wendy Black’s Art Gallery will be open, along

with the newly renovated Court House and the

Men’s Shed. The Hamilton and District Veteran

Vintage and Classic Car club will also be visiting

to show off their cars on the Sunday. The Macar-

thur Bowling Club will be open for Barefoot

Bowls and morning tea.

A large number of volunteers will be required to

make sure that all of these events run smoothly.

Please consider offering your services. If you are

not available to help on the weekend, please con-

sider helping set up for Music in the Vines.

Macarthur will be a hive of activity, so tell all your family and friends to come along and enjoy a fabulous Big Macarthur Weekend!

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Macarthur RSL News

Members are advised of the next

meeting being our ‘Annual General Meeting’

to be held in the club rooms on Tuesday 14th

February 2017 @ 8pm

NEW MEMBERS WELCOME

Shed members are advised of our next

‘general meeting’ to held at ‘The Shed’

on Thurs 9th Feb. 2017 following 12 noon BBQ

Macarthur Bowling Club Men

Twelve teams contested our men’s section’s

‘Alexandra House Open Fours’ tournament on 15

January. Four games each of 10 ends were played.

The winning team consisted of Cynthia Holmes

from Grangeburn, Enid Jenkins from Macarthur,

Ray Corbett, Grangeburn, and Owen Ross,

Grangeburn with four wins. Runner up team was

Dennis Ollie, John Page, John King and Barry King

all from Penshurst with three wins and 29 points.

Other three game winners were teams from Koroit

and Portland. Our next tournament is the Macarthur

Rural Supplies Open Fours on March 18th.

Weekend Pennant has resumed after the Christmas

break. At time of writing Division 2 were 5th on their

ladder and Division 4 were 3rd on theirs, each with

three rounds of ‘home and away’ games to play.

Ladies

Happy New Year everyone! Hope it will be a good one.

Congratulations to Division 2 Ladies on winning Friday Pennant.

Thursday 19th January, Ladies 4s Tournament, spon-sored by Ern Polack & O'Keefe & Schroeder.

Visitors came from Balmoral, Coleraine, Heywood,

Dunkeld, Grangeburn, Hamilton, Koroit, Penshurst, Port Fairy and Portland.

Winners: Portland. Skip Betty Scott, 3rd Heather Burgess, 2nd Jo Calder, Jenny Garner lead.

Runner/up: Hamilton. Skip Diane Brody 3rd Marg Kerr, 2nd Wendy Arnold, lead Fay Geybit.

Phantom Draw: Lead Bev Bourke, 3rd Caroline Schurman 2nd Marg Mibus, Skip Jan Hamblin.

Raffle winners were Lyn Hamblin and Jenny Garner.

Club News.

Congratulations to our Club Champions: Carole Dunn defeated Mary Millard and Lance Burland de-feated Barry Sharrock. Good luck to both when they play off in the Champion of Champions at the end of January.

Division 4 had a win at Pennant last Saturday 14/1/2017 defeating Coleraine. Division 2 had the bye.

.Winners of social Bowls 12/1/2017 were Barry Sharrock, Bev Bourke, Carmel Jasper.

The Corporate Cup series is filling fast. Entries may be in teams of three, or two or individual entries and

the club will make up the team. Entries to Nan Shar-rock 5576 1269, Carmel Jasper 5577 5266 or Mary Millard 5578 7264. Come along and try our new

sets of Barefoot bowls and junior sized bowls.

Broadwater Tennis Club Inc.

Junior Tennis Coaching

Saturday – 11, 18 & 25 February and 4th March 2017

at Broadwater Tennis Courts, commencing at 9.30am.

6-7 year olds – half hour lesson – maximum 5 in group

8-9 year olds – half hour lesson – maximum 6 in group

(half hour sessions for the above groups is due to concentration spans in the age bracket)

10 years plus – one hour lesson – maximum 8 in group If children are capable of hitting a ball they will be placed in a higher group which will be determined on the first day. If all groups have maximum numbers: Approximate prices will be: $10.00 half hour lesson $14.00 hour lesson

All groups must be filled before we can lock in coaches. Warrnambool Indoor Tennis are suppling the coach and all equipment. If groups are not full the prices will increase.

THIS IS A FOUR WEEK PROGRAM AND COMMITMENT FOR THE FOUR WEEKS IS A MUST. ALL MONIES TO BE PAID ON THE FIRST

MORNING OR BEFORE.

Broadwater Tennis Club are unable to subsidise this program.

Numbers needed by the 3rd February 2017 to Leonie Dyson 0438586762 or email ljdyson@westvic.com.au or Sarah Shearsmith 0411 707 637 sarahshearsmith@hotmail.com

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DAMS, ROADS,

DEEP RIPPING,

DRAINAGE,

STONE CLEARING

ROLLING, SAND, SOIL

or GRAVEL.

COWLAND EARTH MOVING

Brian Cowland

5576 1075

0407 528 608

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Broadwater Community

Reserve Inc.

IS AVAILABLE TO THE COMMUNITY FOR

FUNCTIONS Birthday Parties

Meetings

Social Functionsll

enquiries to: Leonie Dyson 0438586762

PROPOSED CHURCH TIMES FOR

NEXT TWO MONTHS FOR

MACARTHUR

These church times and venues are only tentative and may change, so it would be a good idea if you intend going to any of these services to check, we do try to let people know if there is a sudden change.

Phone numbers of respective Churches are at the bottom of this notice.

February 5th Uniting Church 9am

February 12th Gospel Service 9am @ St.

Johns Port-Fairy (jazz festival on)

February 19th 3 in 1 Catholic Church 8.30am

February 26th Uniting Church 9am

March 5th 3’n 1 Anglican Church 11am

March 12th Anglican Church 9am

March 19th Catholic Church 8.30am

March 26th Uniting Church 9am

The 3’n 1 services are Ecumenical each

Church has a turn at this.

ANGLICAN CHURCH

JODIE ANNETT 55784223

CATHOLIC CHURCH

COLLEEN HILL 55761161

UNITING CHURCH

SYLVIA LUKE 55761000

Eumeralla Property Services

Home handyman, small ren-

ovations,

property maintenance, gardening

services.

Licensed Pest Control Technician.

Labour hire (High risk licence)

0419389022 55775220.

Email: eumerallaserices@bigpond.com

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MACARTHUR NEWS

Editor: Merilyn Cook.

Layout: Carole Dunn

Printing: Moyne Shire Council

Published by MADA

Advertising Rates

1/8 page $10 Yearly $60

¼ page $20 Yearly $100

½ page $35 Yearly $150

Once off: Full page $50. Full back page $60

Advertising to: cassadunn4@bigpond.com.au

Articles & reports: pmcook@bigpond.net.au

Enquiries: Merilyn Cook 5576 1113

All articles and ads must be submitted by 21st of each month.

Articles for Macarthur News

Articles submitted for inclusion in this paper should be sent as a Word document using Times New Roman, font size 12.

Articles should be emailed if at all possible as this reduces the work required to prepare the paper for publication.

Septic tank cleaning

Portable toilet hire

Grease Trap Cleaning

Excavator 8Tonne with 300, 450 and

600mm Augers

Septic tank installation,

Septic treatment system installation

and effluent drain replacement

Servicing all areas

Parfrey Plumbing

0355761102

Fox & Lillie Rural would like to advise that

the Macarthur store will be open Fridays only.

Trading Hours will be from 9.00 am to

4.30pm or by appointment.

For any wool buying, receivals and general

inquiries please contact

Colin Petersen 0427 528 126

Macarthur store 55 761394

Hamilton Store 55 724445

Main office and store will be situated at 86-94

Lodge Road Hamilton. Colin, David, Mat,

Graham & Mark will be able to help you with

any inquiries in regards to receivals of clip lots

and oddments.

Broadwater Playgroup

Recommences Friday 10th February 2017

1.30pm-3pm

(AT: Broadwater Community Reserve (Old school) Hamilton/Port Fairy Rd,

Broadwater - (14km south of Macarthur)

Come and have a cuppa and a chat and watch the kids make new friends. Bring food for your children. Cuppa supplied

All inquiries: Leonie Dyson 0438 586762

MACARTHUR PUB

HIGH ST

MACARTHUR

Pub News

Happy new year to you all, looking

forward to a big one!

Evening meals Thurs / Saturday.

Live music on the 19th Feb /

Nanci Schipper from 3 pm. .

Follow us on Facebook page Macarthur

pub for all updates on events

ROUND BALING

& SILAGE WRAP-

PING

Glenn (Cotton)

Baker

Rolling — Mowing

Raking & Teddering

Spraying — Sowing

Phone: (03) 55784246

0419 836 784

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GRAMPIANS

Screenprints by Wendy Black

MacBlack Print Room

24 Heckfield st

Macarthur March 4 & 5 10 – 6

macblackprintrooms@gmail.com

#macblackprintprintroom

For Sale

Antique wash stand with

marble top and dark blue

tiles on back. $275

Singer treadle sewing

machine (intact).

Base is fairly plain. $150

Timber trunk, good for

storage cum coffee table.

($150)

All in good condition.

Phone 5576113 or 0418 593466

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Macarthur Community Gym

Membership only $50:00 per year.

All new members will have a free induction to the equipment with our

local fitness instructor Jodie Nicholls to get you started. You can then

choose to participate in Jodie’s twice weekly circuit classes which are

only $5:00 per class, and/or secure a key from the health centre so you

can go whenever you like.

Membership forms are available from Macarthur Community

Health, Enquiries 55522000

McLeod Transport

Livestock & General 45’ 2 x 1 Stock Crate Trailer 45’ Drop Deck Trailer

David McLeod

1127 Condah Road, Macarthur 3286

03 5578 4200 0428 527 264

SAM CAMERON PLUMBING Lic. 46663

Roofing & Spouting Wood Heater

Drainage & Sewerage Installation

Hot & Cold Water General Plumbing

Hot Water Units & Maintenance

Call Sam on 0419634972 today!

Land Plane

Raking

Disc Ploughing

Track

Formation

Field Span

Draining.

Hay Baling

Air Seeder

Mouldboard Ploughing

Power Harrow

Mowing

Offset Disc Ploughing

LACHLAN & WALLACE HILL

AGRICULTURAL CONTRACTORS

Lachlan: 0418 761113 Wallace: 0419 591971

:

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Keatings Caremore Pharmacy

Scripts Giftware Dry Cleaning

Every month we have two weeks of great specials

Need help? Call in and talk to Helen or Bev

G. HILL CONTRACTING

AGRICULTURAL SOLUTIONS

3 X 3 & 4 X 3 Square Baling. Disc & Mouldboard Ploughing.

Power Harrowing. V & Rotary Raking.

Self Propelled Mower. Conditioner & Windrower.

Silage Wrapping. Hay Cartage & Stacking. Harvesting.

Rotary Hoeing. Crop Rolling. General Cultivation.

Air Seeding of Cereals.

Direct Sowing of Small Seeds. Grouper Available.

Hay, Straw & grain Sales.

Phone George: 0427 053 488 Gary: 0427 761 302

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Parfrey Plumbing Macarthur

Your local Elgas dealer

Please contact us about the Elgas Seniors

Discount Promotion for existing

Elgas customers.

Phone: 0355761102

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