Category: Community News
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Dereel Community Gardening
From Kim Stanley – Dereel Community Gardening group. Calling all local gardeners!! All welcome. Don’t forget the meeting this Saturday 20th May from 2:00 pm to -4:00 pm to work out the orchard, vegie patch, garden space and new shed. All ideas are important so come along and let us know what you’d like. It…
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Hub Cafe: Coffee and Chat
Hub Cafe is on again tomorrow at the Dereel Community Centre. The Dereel Camera Crew will be out on an excursion, which leaves plenty of time to just sit and chat over coffee, hot chocolate and chai. Drop in any time between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm. Everyone welcome.
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Daylesford Autumn Leaves Excursion
by Carol Moyse, This Saturday, the Dereel Camera Crew will be going to Daylesford to visit the Lavender farm. We plan to have afternoon tea and then have a good look around the farm, including a great display of Autumn leaves. If you would like to come with us, meet at the Dereel Community Centre at…
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Free Course Starting Tomorrow
Places remain in the free Building Dereel Community Relationships course run by Centacare. This is a three week program designed specifically for Dereel, being offered for free by Centacare. It is appropriate for anyone involved with, or keen to become involved with community groups, projects and opportunities. Program dates: Tuesday May 2, 9 & 16 from…
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Spring Festival Volunteer Meeting Tonight
As indicated in previous articles and published in the print edition of Dereel Spokes, the fate of the Dereel Spring Festival in 2017 depends on the number of new volunteers who are willing to help organise it. If you can help, please come to a community meeting tonight. The meeting commences at 7:30 pm…
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Show Your Support
DCHI events and projects are run by a small but dedicated team of people. We have so many interesting things we would like to do for the Dereel community, and not enough people to put them in place. Sometimes, keeping our regular activities going is a challenge if our team members have family or work…
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Updated: HELP NEEDED! Do You Have These Skills?
Update: The post below is from 2017, but we still need help. Right now our needs are very simple: people who want to be involved with the community of Dereel people who can spare an hour here or there to help in any capacity people interested in working out how DCHI can best function for…
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Seeding Dereel
Are you interested in growing and sharing food? Whether you are inexperienced or have a seasoned green-thumb, we invite you to take part in a project to grow and share food from seed to plate. Each season, seeds that are ready to sow will be made freely available through the Food is Free stall. We…
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Growing, Cooking, Eating and Sharing Food
This article was sent to Dereel Spokes by the Golden Plains Shire Are you interested in growing, cooking, eating or sharing food? Come along to a meeting for all community members interested in food. It is a great opportunity to meet like-minded people, share ideas and experiences and to find out about and become involved…
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Dereel People – Doug Braddy
1. How long have you lived in the area and what brought you here? Since 2000. I used to go prospecting with a mate around here so knew the area and said I would buy land if it became available. When something came up I couldn’t believe it had a house on the land given…
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Open House: The Dereel Men’s Shed
The Dereel Men’s Shed is holding an open house on 25th March 2017 from 11am-3pm at 14 Swamp Road, Dereel We invite you to see what we’ve got; see what we do and see what tool mysteries we can unravel for you. If you don’t know how to change a spark plug, put new blades…
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Youth Services in March
As we get further into the first school term of 2017, students are learning new topics and trying to understand new concepts. If you are, or know, a student who could use some help achieve their best, then come along to Free Community Tutoring at the Dereel Community Centre each Tuesday during term from 5pm…
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Western Bulldogs Youth Leadership Program
This article was sent to Dereel Spokes by the Golden Plains Shire. The Western Bulldogs Youth Leadership Program is coming to Golden Plains. The Golden Plains Shire Council will partner with the Western Bulldogs in 2017 to bring the club’s award winning youth leadership program to the Shire. Established by the club in 2013, the…
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Real Food Festival: Real Coffee Workshop
Dereel is participating in the Real Food Festival by extending the Hub Cafe on Saturdays into a series of Real Coffee Workshops. Each workshop will be structured so you can taste your way through through ten different brewing methods, using the same single origin coffee beans. Also, find out about aroma and flavour profiles, along with the…
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Art in Dereel – How?
Calling Artists, Crafters, and Creatives of all descriptions! How do we develop an arts community in Dereel? Chat over coffee about art and what you want to be able to do here in Dereel: 2pm, Saturday 25th February, Dereel Community Centre What is important to you in your creative practice? Would you like the…
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Community Garden Working Bee and Free BBQ
This Weekend: 11am to 1pm, Saturday 25 February, Dereel Community Garden The Dereel Community Gardening Group met on Saturday 18th February, the first time since the working bee in November. Over the festive season, some of the weeds had grown back. A decision was taken to have a ‘tidy up’ working bee to keep the garden…
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Community Garden Photo Gallery
Next Meeting The next Community Garden meeting will be at 2pm on Saturday 18th February in the Dereel Community Centre. Everyone welcome. Working Bee Photos Thank you to everyone who helped with the first Dereel Community Garden Working Bee in November 2016. Approximately 20 people helped out on 26th November, 2016 to do a huge…
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Learning Games
Games to help develop number sense and aid basic computation Tuesday 21st February 5.15pm. By Erin Gallagher Would you like to help your child to have success in mathematics? Would you like to help your child be confident in basic computations at school? Research suggests that parent/carer attitude towards mathematics can be critical in the…
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Real Food Festival
Dereel will be participating in the Real Food Festival, held in March. If you would like to share your ideas or just help out, please come to the planning meeting: Dereel Real Food Festival Planning Meeting 7:30pm Monday 20th February, Kitchen, Dereel Community Centre Among the ideas to be considered are a local Food Is Free program;…
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iVan Youth Cruiser fortnightly Tuesdays 4-5 pm
Get along to the Dereel Community Centre on Tuesday 14th February straight after school for some fun with the iVan Youth Cruiser. The Golden Plains Shire youth team will be bringing the iVan to the Dereel Community Centre for you to chill out with TV, movies or video games. The iVan will be here every second Tuesday during…
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Free Community Tutoring
The school year is starting up again, so it’s time for the community to pull together to help Dereel students achieve their best in 2017. Every Tuesday from 5-6 pm there will be Free Community Tutoring sessions running in the Dereel Community Centre. Students at all levels are supported; primary school, high school and even some…
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Generations to work together over Tech, Tea and Tales
News from the Golden Plains Shire Golden Plains will be the first Shire in Australia to introduce an exciting new program for youth and seniors called ‘Tech, Tea and Tales’. The program will employ young local jobseekers to provide one-on-one technology help to seniors in the Shire, and to record their life stories and experiences…
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Dereel People – Clio Ellis-Perez
1. How long have you lived in the area and what brought you here? Since 3 months before the 2013 fire. Now over four years. I came back to Australia to spend time with my parents after spending many years abroad. And I came to Dereel after they died to live in the bush and…
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Meditation: Tonight
Clio Ellis-Perez is running a new meditation group on Wednesday nights from 7pm to 8pm at the Dereel Community Centre, 14 Swamp Road Dereel. If you would like to participate, the cost is a donation of a gold coin to cover the costs of the room hire. Everyone is welcome.
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Maps, Signage and Publications Project
The kick-off discussion for the Maps, Signage and Publications project will be on Saturday 28th January at 1:30 pm in the Community Centre Meeting Room. This will begin the process of determining the allocation of $1000 SEED funding to specific community projects. If you have a view and would like to be part of the…
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Rokewood RSL Market on Australia Day
Come to the Australia Day RSL Market in Rokewood. Australia Day, Thursday 26th January from 10am to 2pm at the RSL, Ferrars Street, Rokewood. Stallholders welcome. For more information, please contact Gwen Mills on 5346 1450 or Ruth Uren on 5346 1012.
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Monday: Knowledge Sharing Project
Continuing the series of Community Planning project discussions, the Knowledge Sharing project will be the focus of discussion on Monday night. SEED funding of $1000 has been allocated to this project as part of the Community Planning process. Some knowledge sharing initiatives have already been trialed in Dereel, such as the Homework Hub on Tuesdays…
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Today: Pop-Up-Shops Discussion and Hub Cafe
Pop-Up Shops Discussion: Community Centre Meeting Room at 1:30pm Are you interested in exploring how we can have Pop-Up Shops in Dereel? As part of the Community Planning process, $1000 of the SEED funding has been allocated to this exploration. Today we begin the discussion about how to proceed with this project. Meeting begins at…
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Tai Chi Dates for 2017
If you’re looking to include some physical activity in your week in 2017, why not consider Tai Chi classes in Dereel? Suitable for all levels of fitness and beginners are welcome! Tai Chi classes coincide with school terms. In 2017 terms 1, 2 and 4 are scheduled on Thursday’s from 7:00pm to 8:00pm. Please note:…
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Baby Change Table
Zali and Stephen O’Dea have donated a baby change table to the Dereel Community Centre. This is situated in the wheelchair accessible toilet near the meeting room. At the moment there are no nappies, wipes or covers, so please bring your own. There are a few extra soft toys in the storeroom too – again thanks…
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