July 2004 - Chewton.net

SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL PARK
Thank goodness for the rain! Our oval is playable again
so there have been soccer club matches on (wet and drizzly)
weekends and a school tournament on June 11.
Our June meeting was taken up with concerns about
expensive plumbing works we need to have done and
moving light switches from the soccer change room
switchboard to the wall of the kitchen.
We were pleased to welcome the proposal from Bruce
Newman for the Chewton All Stars Committee to include
Ian McMillan, Jack and Marg Finning, Shirley Ann Hughes
and Mick Sundblom. They will work with the Soccer Club
to move all Tigers’ memorabilia into the room nearest the
kitchen which is the old Tigers’ Room.
When Brian Smith, the former President of the Chewton
Pool Committee, rang me to tell me the Chewton Pool
was about to close, I checked with Cr Jim Norris and was
reassured when he told me that, on the contrary, no pool
in the shire would close as pools are now Core Business.
At the same time we understood that Bettie Exon would
follow up with council to find out why there was no money
in the budget for the Chewton Pool.
There is further evidence of council’s support for its
community pools in its efforts to get industry support for
its local swimming pools policy and to seek a two-tiered
lifeguard award to acknowledge the different training needs
of swimming supervisors in regional areas. The landmark
meeting of the Victorian Aquatic Council in Castlemaine
on June 22 gave additional credit to this policy. Only a
council that is deeply committed to maintaining its
community pools would act in this way.
At the Community Forum on Monday, June 21, Cr Norris
explained that a $60,000 roof over a changing area at
Newstead had mistakenly been given priority in the budget
over the filter and pipes at Chewton because the officer
“believed the [Chewton Pool] would make it through the
season while it seems that it would not even make it INTO
the season!” He assured the meeting that funds will be
allocated more appropriately before the budget is adopted.
He also confirmed that council will soon begin to build the
Shared Facility, the showers and change rooms to serve
both the Park as a whole and the Chewton Community
Pool. As Jim put it, if it is to be a multi-purpose change
room, we have to have a swimming pool!
This Committee of Management is conducting our Annual
General Meeting on Wednesday, July 14, at 7.30 p.m. in
the George Archer Pavilion. Everyone is invited. Cr Norris
will chair the election of Committee Members. This will
be followed by our Committee Meeting.
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FRYERSTOWN CORNER
The rogaining was held on the weekend of the 19th and
20th of June. The number of people are turned up was
unbelievable. Our 6 and a 1/2 acre back paddock at the
hall was full of cars, as well as those parked on the streets.
It really must be doing the whole area a lot of good, tourist
wise, to have so many people here for the weekend.
One of our old miners' cottages in Fryers, with a two peak
roof has had a room added and is now a three peak roof.
It looks very good.
Our next film night is on Saturday the 24th of July at 7:30
p.m. in the Fryerstown Hall. Screening will be “Captain
Blood”, a 1935 film starring Errol Flynn and Olivia
deHavilland. Also screening will be the sixth episode of
Flash Gordon.
Rainfall for June in Fryerstown (to the 21st of the month)
was 95 and a 1/2 millimeters. The total for the year so far
is 145 and a 1/2 millimeters. Pat Cubeta.
LUCKY BLOKE!
Lucky Bloke was a passive volunteer at a recent working
bee at the Entrance to Chewton. Lucky is the latest
creation by Rocky - remember Rocky's Man who
entertained us on the trip to Castlemaine?
Watch for Lucky making regular appearances in and
around Chewton - and in and around the Chewton Chat.