1. art and entertainment
2. theatre

Covering the Cygnet, Huonville, Grove, Leslie Vale, Franklin, Geeveston & Channel areas
18 December 2014
Phone: 6295 1708
cygtel@southbus.com.au
www.southbus.com.au
No 1360
Students from St James Catholic College in Cygnet cut a dash ahead of their leavers’ dinner last week.
Targa heads back south
The next Targa Tasmania will be
held between 27th April and 2nd
May 2015. Targa Tasmania is
a world-class international motorsport event, now about to enter
its 24th consecutive year.
In the biggest changes for a decade, the Targa Tasmania course
will be getting a major shakeup
for 2015. The changes include
a re-introduction of stages south
of Hobart for the first time since
2007. The ‘new’ southern loop
will include stages in the Huon
Valley, which were a staple of the
event for its first 16 years.
Targa will travel south of Hobart
for its sixth and final leg on 2nd
May, with rallying taking place
in Nicholls Rivulet, Woodbridge,
Cygnet and Longley.
Event director Mark Perry said
the changes made for 2015 are
in preparation for the 25 th anniversary event in 2016, which
organisers have confirmed will
run on the same course as 2015.
“These are the first major course
changes since 2008 when we
moved the event to the north of
the state,” he said.
“We are very excited to finally
bring the southern loop back to
Targa Tasmania and to be able
to do that while not dramatically
increasing the travelling distance
is fantastic news.
“It is important that we keep
the event fresh, and it is time to
return Targa Tasmania to Hobart
with the 25th Anniversary not too
far away.
“The north of the state still gets
plenty, but this allows us to reengage with the south, and it is
important that Targa Tasmania
spreads its economic impact as
widely as possible as well.
“We really want to make the 25th
Targa huge, and we want to be
able to use as many traditional
Targa stages as possible.”
The other significant change is
that the event will start on a Monday, and finish on the Saturday
for the first time in its history.
Targa Tasmania is a tarmac rally
which travels over 2,000 kilometres with more than 40 competitive stages on closed roads for
the true motoring enthusiast,
catering for up to 300 selected
cars approved by invitation.
Targa Tasmania’s heritage comes
from a passionate history dating
back to 1906 in Sicily, where the
inaugural Targa Florio was unveiled. Targa Florio took its name
from organizer Vincenzo Florio.
Each winner was presented with
a plate bearing the Florio family
crest. The Italian word for plate
is targa, hence the name.
Targa Tasmania Media Release
Browse this week’s issue on the Internet:
Crooners,
crackers,
and blues
Music has always been part of
Christmas and New Year’s Eve
celebrations: the classic Christmas
compilation album with the likes of
Bing and Frank and Ella serenades
us through the speakers, followed
by whatever CD has been stuffed
into the Chrissy stocking. But there
is nothing better than great music
being performed live by talented
muso’s and singers, famous or
otherwise, and being immersed in
the good-time vibe.
This Sunday afternoon, 21st December from 2pm, Cygnet’s RSL
will be in celebration mode, resonating with the melodies of classic
crooners and all that jazz, making
the most of the talents of local
jazz musicians Brad Madigan,
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PALS Sport 9.15-9.50am. GP room,
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Peregrine Play Group 9–11am,
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Uthando Project Making dolls for Zulu
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Kingborough Prostate Cancer
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Cygnet Library Storytime 2-3pm.
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Scouts for 11-15yr olds 7-9 pm Burtons
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Strange but true
Santa battles
A German museum has asked that Father
Christmas be added to UNESCO’s list of
Intangible Cultural Heritage to protect his
proudly Teutonic origins, and to distinguish
him from that transatlantic interloper, Santa
Claus. Father Christmas (Weihnachtsmann)
is one of several German traditions – the
Christmas tree, baubles, Christmas markets
– embraced by other countries. Felicitas
Höptner, director of Rothenburg’s Christmas
Museum, fears that the traditional figure, a
stern character, who doled out punishments
as well as treats, and is often depicted wearing green or brown, is now under threat from
the altogether jollier American Santa Claus.
Father Christmas was originally developed
as a secular version of the traditional giver of
gifts, the Catholic Saint Nicholas, following
the Reformation. He began to take his modern
form, with the distinctive hooded coat, in the
middle of the 19th century. Santa Claus, in
contrast, was created by Thomas Nast, a German cartoonist who emigrated to the US, and
popularised by Coca-Cola advertisements
in the 1930s. “Children know only of Santa
Claus, because he’s smiling,” said Höptner.
“They forget their old traditions.”
Zombie Santa for charity
A haunted-house attraction near Nashville,
Tennessee, got into the Christmas spirit last
weekend, with Zombie Santa and his undead
elves and one demonic reindeer going on
the attack for fun and charity. “Instead of
Christmas cheer, we spread some holiday
fear,” said Carroll Moore, who turned his Halloween season Death Yard Haunted Attraction
in Hendersonville into a Yuletide horror show
last weekend.
For $10 and an unwrapped new toy, visitors
could pass through the 1,300m2 warehouse,
northeast of Nashville, crammed with horrors.
For $5 more, the could use the paintball
range just outside to take 15 shots at Zombie
Santa and his friends. Moore said he hopes
his Zombie Christmas attraction will become
a holiday tradition.
The unwrapped new toys went to Last Minute
Toy Store, which operates from a Nashville
church, and gives parents who cannot afford
toys a chance to look for things their children
might want for free. Nita Haywood, who
helps run the Last Minute Toy Store at the 61st
Avenue United Methodist Church said, “It’s
different, but new toys are new toys.”
The ultimate Christmas tree
For those who love Christmas but detest falling
needles and cheap plastic, Japanese jeweller
Ginza Tanaka has created a Christmas tree
made of pure gold, worth a mere $2 million. After making a 24-carat gold horse for
Japan’s young prince, the company decided
to create a solid gold Christmas tree. It is 2.4
metres high and weighs around 12kg. The
luxurious tree, decorated with golden plates,
around 60 heart-shaped ornaments and
covered with ribbon, is the most expensive
object the jeweller has ever made.
Row, row, row your boat
If you’d like to learn how to row a St
Ayles Skiff with your family, friends
or colleagues and be a part of a
worldwide community-based sport
now is the time to get involved.
The St Ayles Skiff is a novicefriendly boat, and doesn’t require
previous rowing experience. Each
of four rowers has one oar, and
a cox is required on the tiller.
You are welcome to come and
try to see how easy it is row these
lovely boats.
The first Australian St Ayles Skiff,
Imagine, was built in Franklin
and is rowed on the Huon River.
Cygnet has now created The
Swan, and Taroona has recently
launched Chiton (pronounced
Kite-on). Another skiff, sponsored
by the Bendigo Bank, is currently
being built in Franklin at the Living
Boat Trust.
The International St Ayles Skiff Regatta will be held from 13th to 15th
February in Franklin. Eight skiffs
are expected from overseas and
the mainland, and with four local
skiffs, it should be an outstanding
regatta over the three days.
For anyone interested in being
a member of a crew or forming
a team and being a part of an inaugural event for the Huon Valley,
contact the Living Boat Trust, visit
www.tasskiffie2015.org or phone
6266 3224.
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Crooners, crackers, and blues
From front page
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Paul Martin, Malcolm Martin and
Paul Fenton, together with ‘Gigs’
Guia and the tuneful vocals of Nic
and Eleanor Meredith. Expect to be
enticed into singing along to those
timeless favourites while enjoying
the atmosphere of good music and
good company. But there’s more...
Come New Year’s Eve, the Cygnet
RSL will throw its doors open again
from 8.30pm to revellers who are
up for a great night’s dancing.
This is the Blues Underground in
full flight. Andrew Krambousanos
will fire up his guitar alongside
Nic Meredith, Andy Koppleman,
Paul Fenton and ‘Gigs’ Guia. And
yet again the band will feature a
horn section with Paul Martin and
Malcolm Martin, giving the band
a classic ‘Blues Brothers’ feel. And
as with last year’s event (which was
a great success), the stage will
be shared with some of Cygnet’s
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opportunity to show off and enjoy
the thrill of playing to a noisily appreciative, and boogying crowd!
So to set the mood for the festive season, come along to our
Christmas Crooners this Sunday,
and then dance into the New Year
with great music and good times.
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Quick n’ dirty boat building
Students from Woodbridge High,
Kingston High, Calvin Christian
School, Tarremah Steiner school,
Taroona High, Friends, Hutchins
and Dunalley converged on
a boat-building workshop at
Howden on 6 th December to
learn the finer points of boat
building, with an emphasis on
safety and teamwork. Their aim
is to win the Quick ’n’ Dirty
Boatbuilding Challenge at the
upcoming MyState Australian
Wooden Boat Festival.
Under the careful eye of renowned sailor/boat builder Ian
Johnston and challenge coordinator Suzy Manigian, 25 students
practiced their newly acquired
skills building a small craft out of
cane, wooden strips, canvas and
cable ties. They may look flimsy,
but these boats actually float. The
demo boat was not only built but
‘test driven’ in North-West Bay
last Saturday.
The workshops were a prelude
and test-run for the Quick ’n’
Dirty Boatbuilding Challenge,
a colourful, and at times hilarious, feature event at the festival.
Teams must complete two laps of
Constitution Dock, one with oars
and one under sail.
Suzy said the level of enthusiasm
demonstrated by the students
was infectious, and although
the event is quite competitive,
camaraderie and teamwork
were abundant.
“The practice the students had
on Saturday will help them keep
their boats afloat during the big
Challenge on Monday 9th February,” Suzy said.
“The actual event has attracted
14 teams from nine schools,
and the challenge for these
young people is to build the boat
and decorate it over two and
a half days.
“Then on the Monday of the
festival it’s into the water to sink
or swim,” Suzy said.
Ian was suitably impressed by the
ingenuity and skills displayed by
the students.
“I only had to demonstrate something once and the kids were right
onto it,” he said.
“And some of their ideas for
their boat designs were quite
ingenious.
“The Quick ‘n’ Dirty really is
shaping up to be a wonderful
event yet again.”
The MyState Australian Wooden
Boat Festival is a free event to
be held on the Hobart waterfront
from 6th to 9th February.
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Seeking Sheltered Passage
For some months now, students
at Woodbridge School have been
involved in an exciting community
film project set to be launched
over the Christmas/New Year
holiday break.
Sheltered Passage is a proposed
series of short documentary films
that share the stories of members
of the Channel community whose
lives revolve around the waterway.
The project, the brainchild of local
educator Ben Rea and film-maker
Russell Hawkins, stems from an
oral history investigation undertaken by Woodbridge students around
the Channel, Bruny Island and
lower Huon estuary that explored
intergenerational connections to
their waterway.
When complete, the Sheltered Passage series will comprise six short
films that visit unique locations, occupations and practices which are
central to the continued wellbeing
of the Channel. The authenticity
of the experiences presented in
each of the films is reinforced by
the first-person narratives of the
custodians of the traditional practices and perspectives, who live
and work towards sustaining this
unique environment. The project is
a celebration of community – past,
present and future.
A grassroots crowd-funding website, donated by web designer Ben
Cashman, has been set up to host
the project and to enable members
of the community to contribute to
the making of the films. It offers
a sliding-scale rewards program to
those who contribute. All financial
contributions will be managed
through the West Winds Community Centre.
The Tasmanian Museum and Art
Gallery is assisting in the development of an educational resource
that will host the films and make
them available to support visiting
students. But while these films have
direct links to various aspects of
the Australian curriculum, they
are designed to be enjoyed by
everybody and to lead to a better
understanding and appreciation
of the special marine and coastal
environment at our doorstep.
To view the Sheltered Passage pilot
(featuring local fishing identity Des
Whayman) and to find out how
you can become involved in and
support this exciting local initiative,
visit the website homepage: www.
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… and what have I done? Put very
simply, this year I had a very enjoyable trip overseas and returned home
safely. In reality this was a big event
for me, the culmination of a couple
of years’ physical training to get my
walking capabilities up to scratch,
preparing for the proverbial trip of a
lifetime, including learning a modicum of basic Spanish. So … I’ve been
away; and I’ve come home. Regular
readers of the Classifieds may recall
my account of preparing my feet, in
order to accomplish the feat that was
the highlight of my journey: walking
the Camino Portugués to Santiago
de Compostella in Spain. Well, my
feet got me through, but at a bit of a
cost – namely blisters, calluses and
toes that, for a while, complained
when required to move in any direction other than straight ahead, on
flat ground.
The why of it
Wikipedia defines ‘pilgrimage’ as “a
journey or search of moral or spiritual
significance.” Typically, it’s a journey
to a location important to a person’s
beliefs and faith. Most pilgrims who
are making their way via any of the
many routes to Santiago de Compostela are aware of the possibility
of a spiritual component. Many are
reluctant, or indeed unable, to define
this and sometimes, when they least
expect it, will be taken by surprise to
discover it. We met a couple on our
pilgrimage, people of no particular
religious faith, making their second
pilgrimage to the same destination. Previously they had walked the
Camino Francés, through France and
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northern Spain. “We were surprised
to realise what a spiritual experience
it was,” they said. And this was no
doubt why they were returning. It’s a
nebulous, hard-to-put-your-fingeron, very personal but very real kind
of thing – which is why people are
shy about speaking of “spiritual
significance”.
The how of it
There are the so-called ‘real’ pilgrims
– the ones who slog it out carrying a
heavy pack, sleep in dormitory-style
albergues and carry little money,
relying on the generosity of locals
along the way. Some of them look
disdainfully upon those, like me,
who have their heavy luggage sent
ahead by the Camino Travel Centre
and carry only a daypack, and whose
accommodation may be modest but
is booked ahead. Some of the ‘unauthentic’ pilgrims shudder to think
of bedbugs, or would be excluded
completely from pilgrimage if they
had to carry all their needs on their
backs. In defence of our group, I
would say that Juan, our luggage
transporter, had regular employment
in a poverty-stricken country; and the
cafés and family run hotels along the
way were similarly glad of our euros.
However, that ‘them and us’ attitude
is actually one I’ve only seen online.
En route, hitting the pavement – or
the cobblestones, the tracks through
vineyards and leafy forests, the rocky
creek beds – all pilgrims are as one.
Stories and experiences are shared.
Some have done it the hard way, and
are doing it again in more comfort.
Some have done it in comfort, and
are trying the ‘authentic’ way.
The who of it
Out of many memorable moments
the people we met and ‘leap-frogged’
along the way, and their stories, stand
out. David, from Ireland, overheard
someone say he resembled a leprechaun. Without blinking, he replied
that in Germany they told him he
looked “like Heidi’s grandfather”.
Gerard and Nicole, an older French
couple on their second pilgrimage,
were walking from Finisterre in France
to Finisterre in Spain. Verena, a slight-
ly overweight Austrian girl struggling
with the heat and hills, joined us for
companionship and support – and
with us chalked up 30+ kilometres,
the most for us in one day. Antonius,
a Belgian man, joined us for the last
few kilometres into Santiago. Despite
this being his fourth pilgrimage he’d
come by a different route and relied
on us newcomers to find the cathedral, the end-point for all pilgrims.
Thomas, Joseph, and Jacobus, were
a trio from Holland. Thomas had
completed one pilgrimage, fulfilling
a promise to his late wife, and had
inspired his friends to return with him
to ‘do it again’. Two women picking
grapes (they can pick their grapes
standing up in Galicia – the people
are short; the good soil allows grapevines to spread on overhead structures) picked and washed bunches
of luscious grapes for us.
The meaning of it
Whoever we met we had much in
common: sore feet, smelly socks,
tired legs; a sense of purpose, a
sense of achievement; loved ones
at home to talk about. Except for
the friends with whom I travelled no
one knew me on the Camino but
despite anonymity, and even the lack
of common language, conversation
was easy. We were all lucky to come
home to warm welcomes from our
loved ones and coming home to
Tasmania was, as always, one of the
best parts of going away. This was an
experience that has enriched my life,
with memories and insights to relive
many times over. This Christmas I’ll
be savouring those memories, recalling especially the people I met on
my pilgrimage. Did they get home
safely? What will their lives now hold
for them? Do they now, like me, know
themselves a little better? And would
they ever think that someone at the
other end of the world cares that
their pilgrimage was all they hoped it
would be? So, this year – what have
I done? I’ve been away; and I’ve
come home. Perhaps your year too
has also been, somehow, in some
way, a little like that.
Judy Redeker
The green, green grass of home
Travelling is a really good way to
appreciate what is great about
home. The most obvious advantage of life on an island, off an
island continent, at the bottom
of the world, is that it has fresh
air, and space. Space! How we
appreciate it, after clutter, clatter
and too many people. Far from
the Madding Crowd, indeed!
(Or, to use a common, but incorrect, paraphrasing of the title of
the 1874 novel by Thomas Hardy,
Far from the naddening crowd).
The term “madding” in Hardy’s
novel meant frenzied, and that is
exactly what I encountered while
travelling. While living life at
a fast pace is thrilling and exciting, stopping, and slowing, is also
good. Here are some very good
reasons for appreciation of life
in Tasmania.
Green grass: who would have
thought that Scenic Hill would
still have greenness, after reports
of our early-onset, dry summer.
Bird noises instead of sirens.
Interestingly, recent guest from
London were shocked at the loudness of the sounds from our birds,
and their unusual calls, songs,
trills, shrieks and laughter.
I love the variety. We record the
bird species living in the valley,
and notice new visitors. A new,
unusual bird gets a lot scrutiny.
We have a visitor to the valley,
a raptor, which took some time
to identify. It looked a lot like
a buzzard, sometimes called
a Buzzard Kite, and could very
possibly have been a Black Kite.
It is not known to have Tasmania
in its range. According to the
Simpson and Day Field Guide
to the Birds of Australia, it is occasionally sighted in Tasmania.
We have not seen it until just
recently in our state. The new
creature may be intruding on the
territory of the pair of Tasmanian
wedge-tailed eagles that hunt
hereabouts. From time to time we
see white-bellied sea eagles, who
stir up the wedgies, so it will be
interesting to see what happens
– territorial air battles, probably.
A common sound in spring/summer is the raucous noise of wattlebirds. Depending on the food
available, wattlebirds can sound
pretty awful, with their choking
call. In the morning, our resident
wattlebird, as he gorges himself
on the prolifically blooming New
Zealand flax, Formium tenax,
sounds a bit like a heavy smoker.
Our wattlebird, however, almost
goes into a trance with the taste
of pollen – he looks stoned!
Our favourite bird, the superb
fairy wren, has peculiar behavioural characteristics: the birds
are socially monogamous and
sexually promiscuous, meaning
that although they form pairs
between one male and one female, each partner will mate with
other individuals and even assist
in raising the young from such
pairings. With a breeding season
from September to March, both
sexes use their distinctive song,
comprising loud, rapid notes ending in a trill, to advertise, defend
territory and keep close together.
What that means is that our local family spends most of its time
picking fights with their reflections
in the glass doors of our home.
Lots of noise, and they are still
pooping on the front veranda
and deck, leaving bird droppings
on the windowsill, the deck and
the furniture.
Mr Fairy Wren, dear little creature
that he is, has taken our prime
M AR K E T
THE
minister’s behaviour to heart.
Our little fellow, with an (apparent) harem of at least three females, does a stylised brag-andboast routine. We see him doing
the equivalent of a Tony Abbott
‘shirtfront’ at his reflection, and
the girls are just as aggressive
and noisy. I hope they leave some
time to get on with breeding!
Black birds are nesting right in
the boysenberry vines, so we can’t
cover our berries. I hope there will
be enough for all of us.
Wallabies are also good to see,
but they are a mixed blessing.
We know that they are eating
the garden, but at this stage,
we aren’t too worried. Sadly, the
downside is wallaby road kill –
too many dead animals, on and
by the roads. To cheer us up, new
calves have made their arrival,
for our entertainment. They lie
around in the long grass, looking
like little brown-and-white scraps
of fabric, then totter about doing
that silly wobbly-leg, new-calf run
that always looks funny. It’s good
to be back.
Merlene Abbott
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Diminishing reserves
Councillor Mike Wilson continues
to go on about what Mayor Peter
Coad had to say during the election
campaign about the state of Huon
Valley Council’s finances (Letters,
27th November). As I recall, what
Councillor Coad was asking was
whether council was going broke.
I don’t remember him saying it was
going broke.
I can see where our new mayor
might have got that idea. Go back
through the council’s financial
reports to the mid 2000s, and you
will observe that it had well over $12
million in cash and cash equivalents
in the annual report for the 2007-08
financial year. Today, it seems that
figure is somewhere around $3
million, perhaps even less. Where
has the money gone? Well, we all
know that about $4 million of it was
spent on less than erudite investments, losses that became apparent
at the end of 2008. That scandal
was brushed under the carpet, and
Robert Armstrong, as mayor, never
offered anything that came near to
an explanation of what motivated his
council’s management to put at risk
so much public money.
The council’s diminishing reserves
are especially worrying given that
we know it has been slashing and
burning on youth, community and
NRM services; and there’s not much
to show in new infrastructure around
the valley that hasn’t been achieved
without substantial state and
federal inputs.
Each year, as the council’s services
have diminished, ratepayers have
had to pay more. I notice that this
year, when Mr Armstrong was still
mayor, he wasn’t bragging, as
he had in previous years, that the
Huon Valley’s rate rise was smaller
than Kingborough’s.
I believe Huon Valley Council’s
books need very close scrutiny
Name and address supplied by a totally independent panel of
I live on a steep bush block up in
the tree tops. My driveway is about
500 metres long and winds up
through the trees.
Every year in bushfire season,
I live with the fear that I might not
be able to get down my driveway
if a fire started down below me in
the valley.
So this year I tried to make fire
breaks on both sides of my driveway. This meant communicating
with my neighbours.
On one side, young saplings were
coming up, right up close to the
side of my driveway. The neighbour
on that side tried to stop me from
getting permission from Crown
Land Services to cut them down,
because he liked that part of
the bush!
Meanwhile, the neighbour on
the other side, who was willing to
oblige by cutting back the bushes
on her side of the fence, was told
by the Huon Valley Council that
she was “not allowed” to clear it
and that it was my choice to live
up there! When I bought my block
the hillside was nowhere near as
overgrown as it is now, and the
regrowth is now coming through
my fence, from her side.
To add to this – I called out the fire
brigade to see if I could get a fuelreduction burn done, to try to make
my access safer but they said it was
too dangerous and that they would
not even come up my driveway in
the event of a fire.
I now feel that my neighbours, the
council and the fire brigade do
not give a damn if I get cooked
alive in a bush fire, and it’s all my
own fault!
Great community spirit here in the
Huon Valley, eh?
I wonder how many other residents
have had similar experiences?
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Green vote plummets
Greens councillor Rosalie Woodruff’s vote at the Huon Valley council
elections held in October plummeted by close to 50%.
Councillor Woodruff polled 664
primary votes at the 2014 election
with her vote plummeting from 1268
at the October 2009 election. If you
add her running colleague’s vote to
hers it only adds another 43 votes
to the total.
Councillor Woodruff’s primary vote
for deputy mayor only dropped by
55, with councillor Ian Paul running
out an easy winner with 58.17%
of the vote compared to councillor
Woodruff’s 41.83%
Robert Armstrong
Cygnet
Road spending
During the Huon Valley election
period there was a lot of misleading
information put forward regarding
our roads program. During that time
it was not appropriate to comment
on this issue. Above right is a list of
our reconstruction and stabilisation
Castle Forbes
Arve Road Stage 1
Arve Rd Stage 2 & 3
Crabtree Road (stage 1)
Crabtree Road (stage 2)
Kent Beach Rd
Lady Bay Rd
Glenbervie Road
North Huon Road
Shield Street
Pages Road
Heron Street
Esplanade Road
Narrows Road
Coleman Road
Lune River Road
Cradoc Hill Road
Coad Street
Ferry Road
Melrose Street
TOTAL
575,000
341,000
600,000
350,000
U3A Kingborough
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510,250
130,000
78,000
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260,000
112,000
212,008
133,925
2,209,250
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READINGS OF
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DID YOU KNOW
Containing sports equipment
inadvertently left next to
the kerb by the Cygnet
Pharmacy/glass shop on
Monday evening, 8th Dec.
I am offering a reward to
anyone who has found
it. Please contact Di
di@pangolin.co.nz or
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BIKRAM YOGA
51 Chuter St, Deep Bay
Mon – Fri 9.30am & 6.30pm
Sat 8am, Sun 10am
Call Ben 0427 651 032
www tranquilpoint.com
HOLIDAY ACCOM.
READING GLASSES
This week’s puzzle
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All levels and styles taught
at studios in City and
Kingston areas.
Ph Roger Southey 6229 4453
EVENTS
Men’s semi-frameless.
Lost around Cygnet.
Contact John 0409 671 675
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Guitar tuition
the guitar school
Now servicing all
lower Channel areas.
Ph 0477 165 583
LOST
SUDOKU 9x9
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ADVANCED
MOORING SERVICES
GARAGE SALE
16 Arve Rd Geeveston.
Odds & sods, bits & bobs,
Japanese maples.
CLASSES
Needs TLC. Make me an
offer. Ph 0429 428 212
Fresh dug local
Ph Lenny 0400 471 683.
pink eye potatoes.
30 Jetty Road, Cygnet. Orders
taken for Christmas also. Garden peas & broad beans.
Local strawberries,
LARGE WOOD SPLITTER
Drivable, pick-up both sides, raspberries & blueberries.
Spray-free local
split forward & back. $7,500
apples
& pears with
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tree-ripened favourites.
CHRISTMAS TREES
All your favourite varieties.
Due to popular demand, last Fresh real free range eggs
chance, cash only. Sat 20th Pure & natural homemade
from 9am until sold out,
jams, maramalades,
come early. Scout fundraiser.
chutney & relishes.
Mitre 10 carpark, Kingston. Also large range of local honey
Ph Peter 0439 995 649
unheated & manuka.
Ye Olde Oyster Cove Store
POTTED ROSES
7am-7pm
Many in flower.
EVERYDAY
Saturday, Huonville market.
See Bluey in the carpark.
LOCAL GOURMET PRODUCTS
Bruny Island Cheeses,
KINGSIZE ENSEMBLE
BISH smoked Atlantic
Sleepmaker Chiropractic.
salmon & trout.
Ex con. $400.
Fresh game meat Ph 6297 6246
wallaby & rabbit.
FRESH PINKEYES
Fresh oysters delivered daily.
Orders taken, deliver over
Cygnet smoked ham & bacon.
Christmas. Ph Creg Coad
Grass fed beef & lamb products.
6295 1579
Free range chicken breast
& thigh cuts.
Beef, pork & fish sausages.
Delivered daily, fresh
sourdough breads, Elgaar
GARAGE SALE & HEALTH
organic milk & cheese products.
SHOP CLOSING DOWN SALE!
Great selection
Nothing over $5 sale!!!
of local Tasmanian wines,
Supplements, herbs,
ciders & honey beers.
essential oils, plants,
Ye Olde Oyster Cove Store
furniture and more…
OPEN EVERY DAY
Sat & Sun 8-4pm.
7am - 7pm Ph 6267 4340
Helms Rd, Gardners Bay
- cnr Channel Hwy, riverside.
SAT 20TH DEC 9AM – 2PM
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Local Weather Forecast
Thursday
Mostly sunny morning.Showers9/21°
Friday
Possible shower
Saturday
Shower or two
10/20°
Sunday
Partly cloudy
10/24°
Monday
Possible shower
12/25°
8/18°
Weather forecast for Huonville from bom.gov.au on Wednesday morning
PUBLIC NOTICE
CHRISTMAS WITH THE
ANGLICAN PARISH
OF CHANNEL AND CYGNET
Sunday, December 21st 7pm,
Community Carols,
Burtons Reserve, Cygnet.
Monday, December 22nd
7.30pm, 9 Lessons and
Carols, Church of the
Holy Spirit, Kettering.
Christmas Eve 8pm,
Combined Carol Service
- Uniting and Anglican,
Woodbridge. 11pm,
Eucharist, St Mark’s Cygnet.
Christmas Day 9am,
Eucharist, SS Simon and
Jude, Woodbridge. 9am,
Family Service, St Mark’s, Cygnet
CYGNET
EX-SERVICEMEN’S CLUB
Monster Christmas Raffle.
Due to the lateness of
sale of tickets and lack
of support, the Cygnet
Ex-Services & Citizens Club
raffle regrettably will now be
drawn on the 31 December
2014 instead of 19
December 2014. Secretary
CARPARK CLOSURE
Mary St, Cygnet. The front
half of the main carpark will
be closed all day Sunday
21 st Dec for the Cygnet
Christmas double market.
ANDREW & BONNY OF
CAFÉ DE PARIS &
PROPER PASTIES
Wish you all a happy festive
season and hope to see
you at this Sunday’s Cygnet
Market with our pasties and
garlic braids.
WATTLE GROVE, STREET /
BEACH PARTY BBQ
7 TONNE CAT EXCAVATOR
Fully equipped. House sites,
roads, general work etc.
$90/hr + GST or quote.
Phone Rohan Gudden 0400
682 099 or Ronny Gudden
on 0418 532 160
GARDENING
POTTED ROSES
Many in flower. Great gift for
Xmas. This Friday & Saturday
9am-4pm. Riverbend
Nursery. 1262 Nicholls
Rivulet Rd, Nicholls Rivulet.
LONGLEY ORGANIC FARM &
NURSERY - FARM GATE SALES
Organic raspberries
only $4/180g punnet,
picked fresh daily.
Help your plants thrive with
our broad range of very
affordable nursery supplies.
Complete organic fertiliser
(for nutrient-dense food),
composting worms,
Wormsol Liquid Soil
Conditioner, biochar,
organic compost,
seed raising mix,
potting mixes...
and our diverse selection of
potted herbs, vege seedlings,
berry plants, seasonal produce,
jams, honey, and more.
Cnr Sandfly & Huon Rds,
Longley, 150m from pub.
Open 7 days.
PROFESSIONAL
TREE SERVICES
Qualified arborist, fully
insured, ethical tree care.
Modern Arbor 0449 150 471
RIDE ON MOWING /
BRUSH CUTTING
Sat 20th after 3pm. Bring
chair, food and your drinks.
Location balloons near
Robin & Ken’s. Ph info
6295 1444 or 0407 273 678
Large areas welcome.
Insured.
Please call 0448 695 429
DEEP BAY FIRE BRIGADE
Plants & seedlings.
Garden mulches – pea straw,
lucerne & grass hay. Barley
straw. Mushroom compost.
Range of potting soils
& animal manures –
sheep, chicken & 3-in-1.
Ye Olde Oyster Cove Store
OPEN EVERY DAY
7am - 7pm Ph 6267 4340
Lolly run, Christmas eve.
Starting 2pm Verona Sands
t h r o u g h t o D e e p B a y.
BOAT HOUSE CAFE
TRADING HOURS
The Boat House Cafe is
currently trading 6 days a
week (Wed-Monday) until we
close for the Xmas break on
Sunday 21 December.
We recommence trading
on Boxing Day and will
then be open every day
throughout January.
We wish all of you a very
Merry Xmas and a fantastic
and safe holiday season.
CLASSIFIEDS
The Cygnet & Channel
Classifieds will be closed
for Christmas and New Year.
Our next edition will be on
8th January 2015. Deadline
for display ads: 5pm,
Monday 5 Jan; classified
line ads: 4pm, Tue 6 Jan.
TRADES
FOR HIRE
OUTDOOR GARDEN
PRODUCTS
PETS & LIVESTOCK
LUXURY BOARDING
PROFESSIONAL GROOMING
Margate Country Kennels
170 Van Morey Road
6267 1148 / 0437 355 856
www.margatecountrykennels.com.au
RANI’S LOCAL, CHEAP,
EXPERIENCED PETMINDING
At your own home. One dog
or an entire farm. Pats, walks,
medications. 0403 642 916
LIVESTOCK TO SELL?
Advertise: 6295 1708
RENDER & TEXTURE COATINGS
By Trowel Art
27 years experience.
Free quotes.
Call 0418 983 659
BOB’S WOOD HEATING
SERVICES
Flue/chimney cleans, gutter
& roof cleaning, other
h a n d y m a n j o b s . Lo c a l
service. Ph 0439 374 880
PAINTER
No job too small.
Call Peter 0417 302 739
CV’s HANDYMAN SERVICE
All home maintenance
& repairs.
Plastering, painting, doors,
windows, re-grouting tiles.
Fences, gates, mowing &
general yard work.
No job too small. Call for
quote Chris 0407 248 450.
Fully insured.
CARPENTER
For all your building needs.
Decks, renos, repairs, etc.
No job too small.
Free quotes.
Ph Warren 0427 442 042
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR
AAA Electrical. For all your
electrical needs large or
small. Lic 1373166.
Ph Anthony 0432 019 914
CARPET CLEANING
Contact Chris from
The 2C’s CARPET CLEANING
Anywhere anytime...free quotes
Phone 6295 1603
PLUMBER
General plumbing,
emergency repairs and
maintenance.
Hot water cylinders and
blocked drains.
Phone 0427 776 456
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR
Electrician Lic No: 944066.
Fast and friendly service.
Call Jamie 0417 363 872.
Jamie@Jbelectrical.com.au
TRACTOR SLASHING
& rotary hoeing.
Cygnet & surrounding areas.
Ph Wayne 0439 951 660
PLASTERER
Walls Ceilings Cornices
Old & New
35 years’ experience
Ph Peter 0412 790 768
CARPENTER / JOINER
30 years’ experience.
Reno’s, decks, pergolas,
handyman, maintenance.
No job too small. Free quotes.
Jason 0414 299 703
HUON VALLEY PAINTING
Interior / Exterior
Servicing Huon Valley area
Call Adam or Kylie
0438 430 805
CONCRETE AND
EXCAVATIONS
Available for shed & house
slabs, driveways, etc.
Experienced with exposed
aggregate & colour finishes.
Phone Andrew on
0407 873 009
andrewgillcontracting.com.au
ANGEL CLEAN
Cleaning ~ Gardening
Carpet Cleaning
Lawns / Pruning / Gutters
Regular/Spring/Bond cleans
Reno/Builders. Police check.
Call Carolyn 0448 779 981
PORTABLE SAWMILLING
With Lucas Mill, on site
and to order. Log handling
machinery available.
Phone Bernt 0402 484 160
SHEDS
DIGITAL TV ANTENNAS
Local supplier of quality
garages, farm sheds and
industrial buildings.
Accredited builder.
0419 309 146 / 6295 1301
www.sissheds.com.au
ROOF PAINTING
COMPUTING
V.A.S.T. free to air satellite TV.
TV Channel Restack Retuning
Homeright Electrical
0419 566 341
6267 9698
Iron and tile roof restoration.
Free quotes. The Flu Pro.
Ph 0407 040 641
MEDIA
DIGITAL TV RECEPTION
Antennas, cabling, new
outlets and equipment set up.
All issues resolved and
guaranteed. 13 years
in the Huon/Channel.
Govt endorsed installer
# 3966. Call Total TV
Tuning on 0428 154 449
MAKE THE CLASSIFIEDS
WORK FOR YOU
Advertising here
and in the Kingston
Classifieds attracts
a discount.
Ph 6295 1708
COMPUTER REPAIRS
FLUE CLEANS
NEW WOOD HEATER SALES
Repairs and installations.
Call The Flue Pro
0407 040 641
GORDON ASPHALTING
and SPRAY SEALING
Car parks, driveways,
footpaths repaired.
No obligation free quote.
Ph 0428 554 439
ACCREDITED BUILDER
Available for work,
new homes, extensions,
renovations. Please call
Steven Gibson 6297 8562
or 0428 978 561
CARPET / UPHOLSTERY
CLEANING
$30 / room. $30 / seat.
Insured / all areas.
Please call Henk,
Detail Clean 0448 695 429
ALL HOME RENOVATIONS &
MAINTENANCE
All renovations - indoor & out.
Carpentry, heritage
restorations, painting, tiling,
plastering. Bespoke timber
furniture made to order.
Decking, fencing & timber
gates made to your design.
Quality workmanship,
cost-effective. Free quotes.
Fully qualified & insured.
25 years’ experience.
Ph Michael Van Heel.
0412 823 925
SERVICES
TAX RETURNS
TO YOUR DOOR!
A home delivery service
for tax returns. We pick
up your papers, compile
your return and deliver the
papers back for lodgement.
If you have a refund due,
then we take our fee from
your refund and transfer
the balance to you.
Bloomfield & Associates tax for busy people! Call
and book your pickup now!
6231 6886
STORAGE
Daniels IT would like to
remind you that Paul is
available to repair your
SELF STORAGE CYGNET
home or work machines. He
has 15 years professional New complex, town centre,
power, lights,
experience in Networks,
24-hour access,
Windows and Linux solutions.
He can come to you, or just secure yard, various sizes,
suit furniture, etc.
drop your machine in. All
results and explanations in End of lane to left of Mitre10.
Ph 0417 714 755
PLAIN ENGLISH! 0428 388 165
CHANNEL PC REPAIRS
Repair call out service.
New and refurbished
PCs and parts.
www.channelpcrepairs.com.au
Phone 6267 4658
CLASSIFIEDS ONLINE
www.southbus.com.au
Read the paper & lodge ads.
FOR SALE UNDER
$100
Single items under $100
$5 for 4 lines. Private ads
only. Cash or credit card
only. Full terms at
www.southbus.com.au
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OPINION
December
Spare a thought for the
local post office
Australia Post is a very large and
complex organisation. One of its
statutory obligations, from which
its management would dearly
love to be relieved, is “to provide
an accessible and affordable
letter service across Australia.”
This remains a core task for Australia Post but the burden falls
largely on the posties, the mail
contractors and the post offices –
nearly 3000 of them. They are the
community face of Australia Post.
The Australia Post retail network
has a number of distinct arms,
including a separation between
licensed post offices (LPOs) and
their corporate counterparts. There
are 4,433 Australia Post outlets
around Australia. Of these, 2,977
are post offices, or 67 per cent
of the network. LPOs may be
run solely as a post office or in
conjunction with another business
such as a newsagency, dry cleaners or convenience store. Some of
them are thriving: we dropped into
Bicheno Post Office last week and
it is part PO, part art gallery. The
operators do not receive a salary
or a retainer. They are, in effect,
franchisees. And as anyone who
has ever bought a franchise will
tell you, it’s not the franchisee that
gets rich. Ask any franchise baker.
Or ex-baker.
So far, so good. But with so large
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an organisation, many things
can go wrong. Australia Post has
a split personality: on one hand
are the corporate high-rise offices.
On the other is the ground level
LPO. Statistically, Australia Post’s
performance, as its website will
tell you, is good. But the Postal
Industry Ombudsman’s office
reflects a different viewpoint: that
of the customer, who too often has
cause for complaint.
There is a considerable difference
between the managerial and
functional stances of Australia
Post which may account for not
infrequent disjunctions in the provision of service. It appears that the
management function does not
talk to the retail function. Management will rewrite or invent policy
without field-testing it or informing
the LPOs, who are left to spend
their own time and money rectifying procedural errors which should
never have arisen in the first place.
These are systemic, rather than
local issues. Don’t take it out on
your local PO manager. An example: in relation to ‘redirection
delivery errors’, Australia Post’s
default response is to blame either
the complainant or the LPO. The
Postal Industry Ombudsman says:
“Contact the tenants at your old
address and provide them with
your new address, asking them to
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Event Diary
Local children’s art exhibition – Huon LINC, Skinner Drive, Huonville
Local children’s art exhibition – Cygnet Town Hall, Mary Street
Christmas Crooners – 2pm, Cygnet RSL
The BIG Blues Underground – 8.30pm, Cygnet RSL
January
9-11 Cygnet Folk Festival
28 Huon Valley Council committee meeting – 6pm, Council Chambers, Huonville
December
Market Diary
20 Huonville Market – 10am-2pm, Huonville Town Hall and surrounds
21 Cygnet Market – 10am-2pm, Cygnet Town Hall & Carmel Hall
21 Woodbridge Village Market – 10am-3pm, Woodbridge Hall
send on any mail they receive by
mistake. Renew your mail redirection before it expires, if required.
If you suspect that your redirection
is not working, contact Australia
Post or the responsible private
postal operator as soon as possible, providing them with any reference number on your paperwork.
If the postal operator is unable to
resolve the problem, we may be
able to investigate to find out what
has gone wrong and whether the
postal operator can fix it…
“Australia Post does not pay compensation for consequential loss
for such things as fines incurred for
non-payment of accounts. It is up
to you to ensure that your accounts
are paid if you anticipate they are
due. This is especially the case with
driver licences, car registrations,
rates notices and the like.”
There are many more quotes
like this on the website. This text
is clumsy and contentious, even
though I have rephrased some of
the denser sections of prose and
generally humanised the style so
as to make it less robotic.
Send your LPO a Christmas card.
They’re working for a pittance
and an unsympathetic franchisor.
They are more likely to keep on
doing this if you treat them kindly.
They deserve our affection and
respect. They are essential in our
communities.
I wish them and you well, and
thank the many people moved
enough by what we have published
this year to write to us. Enjoy your
Christmas: if you see someone
who isn’t, share yours with them,
especially the olds in your life.
Remember The Giving Tree. All the
signs are that 2015 will be a hard
year. It may also be an unhappy
one. May you be granted the
resources you need to deal with it
and still retain and exercise your
inherent humanity.
Cheers!
John Fleming II
fleming@southbus.com.au