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Girgarre Gazette September 2019 Page 8 Development Group General Meeting - Tuesday 27 August 2019 The vision: To build a sustainable vibrant community and create opportunities to celebrate the achievements of the town. ACM Report - John Hommes reported that they are processing 400,000 litres of milk into skim milk powder and the associated organic butter is on sale at Coles Supermarket at the moment. John said that it is planned to move to 24-hour production, manufacturing 700,000 litres of milk in the next couple of weeks. John also reported that the factory has processed its first load of goat’s milk with more to come. Planning for the new cheese factory addition has passed through the Shire and is now in the hands of the EPA. Resource Resolutions - Ian Bertram reported that discussions are ongoing re bio digester but investors are now drilling down on the project. Ian also flagged that perhaps we should revisit the Robin Fox Light and Sound Show we were proposing in the factory. Micro Solar Farm - Greg Fitzpatrick reported that much activity is taking place on Henderson / Morrisey Road construction site with Power Cor on site and panel construction at rear of block progressing. Solar Farm - Peter Leeson reported he hoped that they are only two weeks out for agreement on grid connections- fingers crossed. The whole process has been complicated by solar farms closer to Shepparton. Peter has people on site now doing initial planning work while waiting for approval to occur. Market - August market was another typical winter market – weather forecast had a huge effect on stall holder numbers and attending patrons alike, even though the day was not as bitterly cold as predicted. It is only understandable that stall holders with goods that could be damaged by inclement weather will cancel. Twilight market is to be held at Gargarro on 29 November– we need to find out what support we have from our stall holders and approach as many stall holders as possible who may consider attending. Hopefully the Twilight market will become an annual event. Place Based Planning - Sam Campi has made contact re an over arching plan that would see an area-based scheme implemented for our surrounding communities. Sam believed that collaboration between the small towns could have valuable advantages for our area. Initial conversations would be around the sharing of assets and services that some of these small towns do not have and ideas that could bring more people into our area. Tennis Club - Duncan Rodrick reported that new executives have been elected to take the Tennis Club into the future - Josh Maudsley has been elected as the new leader of the club. Jigarre Jammin - Continued with its revamped winter program and was again a hugely successful day with around 70 people filling our hall. Campers from the park joined in the day with many joining in at walk-ups and some just dancing the day away at the back of the hall. Three lots of campers were from Tasmania and were making return visits to Girgarre just to be part of JJ which they had stumbled on through the signage at the toilet block. The success of the winter program has encouraged new thinking about how we program for the whole year with some new initiatives being introduced, which will hopefully support our leaders who invest a large amount of time in programming. It is planned that JJ will collaborate with The Cottage re Christmas Carols. Signage Boards - Have contacted Karl Devlin re updating information on boards at rear of the hall. Girgarre Stanhope Rail Trail Walking Track - It is expected that work will start on Stage Three of the walking track to Stanhope in the near future. This will involve clearing, weed control and fencing. Sandra reported that the Annual Meeting for the Rail Trail will be held on 8 October at the Business Centre in Stanhope at 7.30 pm, all welcome. RSL - Rob Axen reported that visitors from the Tatura and Mooroopna Legacy groups had visited Girgarre and had warm praise for both the RSL and Girgarre. Gargarro Botanical Garden - Doc McDonald reported that he had attended a BGANZ (Botanic Gardens Australia, New Zealand) meeting in Mildura at the Inland Botanical Gardens. The next BGANZ meeting is planned for Girgarre in 2020. Doc also reported that TCL Landscape Designers, Lucas Dean and Nuonan Lu, will be accompanied by Paul Thompson one of Australia’s most renowned experts on native plants, who is acting as a consultant to TCL on the Gargarro project and Jill Burnett, a landscape designer from the Cranbourne Gardens, will be journeying to Girgarre this week as part of the Detailed Design element of our Gargarro Gardens. Friends of the Garden – Bernie Ryan reported he had received a letter from the campers who enjoyed the recent camp over and were very complimentary of the facilities, our town and the beautiful meal that Friends of the Garden prepared for campers on Saturday evening. Marlene Rodrick also reported that Friends had held another very successful working bee with mulching of the eastern boundary plantation completed as well as some additional plantings and staking along the Southern boundary. Doc McDonald and George Dibattista were thanked for supplying equipment necessary to complete the project. Marlene advised that the AGM for Friends of the Garden will be held on 29 October at 6.30 at Hall - all welcome. Recreation Reserve - Greg Fitzpatrick reported that the Football Netball Clubs had a successful year with section U17, U15, and U13 all reaching the finals in the netball and the seconds football team also making the cut. Greg reported on two very successful events held by the Footy Club, one being the Vote Count when 135 meals were served and a very successful fund -raising Hypnotist evening. Girgarre Website - Sally Canny, who is an administrator of the Girgarre Website is requesting each group to review their individual pages and provide updates, information or changes they wish to see to ensure our web page can be as amazing as possible. sallycox4@hotmail.com Moosic Muster – Planning is well underway with sponsorship just completed. Concerts for Friday and Saturday nights are fully booked with some old favourites and some new ones attending. Both nights will be very entertaining and of a high quality. Pleasing to have booked a blue grass band as there has been a couple of years since we attracted one to the festival. New flyers are being produced and Jenny will co-ordinate dispatches to likeminded musicians across the state. Contact has been made with the Rec Reserve to again host the ukulele program. Cottage - Duncan Rodrick reported that Kara Canny had tendered her resignation as Bookkeeper to The Cottage and thanked her very much for her much appreciated service – her bright and bubbly personality will be missed around The Cottage.
Girgarre Gazette September 2019 Page 9 Stanhope Girgarre Rushworth GIANTS Presentations. The SGR Giants drew to a close on Sunday 25 August with a Presentation Day and under 14s vote count. All players in the club were presented with medallions. Danny Miller had a great season and took out the under 14 Best and Fairest award for 2019, closely followed by Mitch Wright who took home the Runners Up trophy. It was a tight contest in the race for best and fairest with only a couple of votes between the top three. Other under 14 awards went to Jack Doolan, Harrison Wigg, Kane McLeod and Mitch Wright. Under 12 awards on the day went to Stephan Sutton, Josh Francis, Jack Neyland and Charlie McLean. The SGR major raffle was also drawn on the day with prizes going to; 1st Bridget Tinning, 2nd Jamie Donovan and 3rd Daryl Harrison. GIRGARRE TENNIS CLUB Girgarre Tennis Club is looking for junior and senior players interested in playing Saturday tennis for the upcoming season. We will once again be offering the Hotshots program for children ages 3 and up to learn the basics of tennis before playing competition. Please register your interest by phoning Club Secretary, Fiona Smith, on 0408502274. Girgarre Tennis Club held it's Annual General Meeting, where we elected a new President, Josh Maudsley, and Treasurer, Jo Saunders. We thank Josh and Jo for taking on these roles within the Club and thank outgoing President & Treasurer Duncan Rodrick for all of the effort he has put into the Club over many years. Thankfully, Duncan has been persuaded to stay on the committee but we are always looking for people to help share the load of running the Club, especially parents, so that their children can continue to play the game they love.
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