Category: Projects
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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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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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Hub Cafe Today
In the Kitchen If you want to reconnect with local people after the festive season, come to the Hub Cafe today. We’ve set the kitchen as a general chat area with our delicious coffee, hot chocolate or chai. In the Meeting Room We also have a separate discussion about the community planning project for the Dereel Swamp/Lagoon…
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Call for Interested People
The first of the seven Community Planning Projects is the Dereel Community Garden, and it is great to see a group of interested and committed people beginning work on this project. DCHI are calling for people interested in working on one of the other six projects to contact us. We envisage putting together six separate…
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Dereel People: Lorraine and Jim Ellis
1. How long have you lived in the area and what brought you here? We have lived in Enfield for five and half years. We had been looking at properties North of Ballarat but six years ago, decided to look to the South. Then we found and fell in love with our property, so retired…
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Community Garden: First Working Bee
The fruit of research, planning sessions and many discussions is looking plump and ripe for tasting in relation to the Dereel Community Garden. If you’ve been waiting for the practical, getting your hands dirty part of the project, it’s about to begin. The Dereel Community Gardening group would love your help for a working bee…
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Info/Intro Session: Orchids in Dereel
Are you interested in learning more about the wild terrestrial orchids which grow in the bushland around Dereel? Emily Noble, Ballarat Field Naturalist and inaugural winner of the Australian Orchid Foundation’s Essay Prize will be presenting the next Introductory Information session in Dereel on Saturday 12 November from 2pm to 4pm. Everyone is welcome. Please…
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Making Good Coffee at Home – Ask Me Anything!
The next Intro/Info session scheduled is ‘Barista at Home’ presented by Richard Emery, coffee roaster. This session will run from 2pm to 4pm on Saturday 5th November at the Dereel Community Centre. Let us know you are coming by sending an email to dereelspokes@gmail.com or clicking on ‘Interested’ or ‘Going’ on the Facebook Event…
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Dereel People – Erin Gallagher
1. How long have you lived in the area and what brought you here? We moved here in June 2015, primarily for family but also looking for a self-sustainable lifestyle with a minimal impact on the environment. 2. What’s great about living here? The quiet – although it’s full of sound, with the birds and…
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Creative Writing Workshop – Saturday 22nd October
Have you ever wanted to explore creative writing but not known where to begin? Keeping a creative writing journal is a great way to start. All you need is a pen and a notebook to take your mind on journeys into an imaginative world, or to explore your own personal history. Led by Lisa Hunter who…
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Reminder: Dereel Community Garden Meeting Tonight
As published in our October edition of Dereel Spokes, the next Dereel Community Garden meeting will be held tonight at 7:00pm in the Dereel Community Centre, 14 Swamp Road Dereel. All welcome. Read about the Dereel Community Garden here.
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Theatre Info/Intro Session on Saturday 15th October
Presented by Kim Stanley – Saturday 15th October, 2pm to 4pm at the Dereel Community Centre. Cost is a gold coin donation to cover room hire. So, how did someone with little theatre experience, zero acting skills with absolutely no ability to remember lines, and a pretty dodgy voice manage to get Captain Cat’s Theatre…
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Saturday 8 October Intro/Info Session: Essential Oils
Essential Oils For Health and Longevity Presented by Clio Ellis-Perez Bookings via Facebook Event Post or email dereelspokes@gmail.com Cost: Gold Coin donation Known for their power since the Pharoahs of Egypt and rediscovered during World War II in helping the wounded. Essential Oils are becoming more and more evident as amazing tools for our health and…
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Dereel People: Lisa Hunter
By Richard Emery 1. How long have you lived in the area? We moved to Dereel in August 2012. Before that I lived in large regional towns or in Melbourne. The move was sparked by a camping trip I had been putting off for 25 years. Came home after being in a National Park with…
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New Program Intro/Info Sessions
The new program of Introductory Information Sessions run by local people for local people is underway. All sessions are two hours in length and are for beginners. The session will give you a brief overview of the topic including things you need to know or equipment you will need to get started. Presenters are all…
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The Dereel Community Plan
Tomorrow, Pam Bailey will present the Dereel Community Plan, launched on 20 August, to the Golden Plains Shire Council. The presentation is to seek approval for the plan and to formalise funding for the proposed seven projects. The seven projects were determined by the community planning process including the Vision Workshop and the Seed Funding workshop. Project…
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Free Community Tutoring
Are you a school student? Do you have a child who is? Or, are you competent in an academic subject at primary or high school level? Would you like to help a school student to learn? If any of these descriptions fit you, we want to hear from you. We are calling for people who…
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First Community Garden Meeting
The first meeting of a DCHI project team, led by Kim Stanley, to plan a community garden at the Dereel Community Centre will take place on Saturday 13th August at 2pm. This first meeting will focus on planning and design. Down the track there will be opportunities to do gardening and landscaping. Updates will be posted…
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Launch and Lunch (Free)
Join us on Saturday 20th August for a free lunch to kick off the Dereel Community Plan for the next three years. Lunch is at 12:30 and the launch is from 1pm to 3pm. After lunch, we will look at the projects included in the proposed Community Plan and you can decide what is most important to…
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Dereel People – Kim Stanley
1. How long have you lived in the area? Almost 18 years, I’m a bush girl. I wanted to have a hobby farm and animals somewhere out in the bush. It’s handy to have easy access to town for work, I hadn’t had a bin service before coming to Dereel! Everything lined up to make…
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Imagine Dereel
The Vision workshop, held on Saturday 23 July, was a great opportunity for us to reflect on what is great about living in Dereel and imagine the best of how our community could be in the future. Participants spent two hours discussing a wide range of topics to flesh out a future vision for Dereel.…
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Dereel People – Ruth Georgalas
1. How long have you lived in the area? For 30 years. I had five kids and I thought it was a great place to bring them up—with sheep, goats, pigs, cows etc. 2. What’s great about living here? The fresh air, it’s quiet at night, and you can see the stars. 3. What do…
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Dereel People – Richard Emery
1. How long have you lived in the area? 3 ½ years. We were living in suburban Ballarat and for my 60th birthday received hire of a camper van as a gift from my family. We were home two hours from the trip when my partner said it was too noisy and she wanted to…
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Participate in Dereel Community Planning
The next facilitated Community Planning meeting will be held on 21st June 2016. At this meeting, information received from the community will be reviewed by the community planning team. The ten questions below aim to identify what is good about living in Dereel and how we can build on that to make it even better. If…
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Dereel People: Ruth Uren
1.How long have you lived in the area, and what brought you here? 17 years. We had friends who had a place up here and we came to visit, fell in love with the area, saw the block in Tantaus Road. About 6 months later we bought it. We built a shed, lived in that…
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Dereel People – Tashkah Lloyd
1. How long have you lived in the area? Officially since January, but we got the house over 12 months ago and have been coming up for weekends whenever possible. 2. What’s great about living here? I am loving living close to nature, and having space. I like the idea of having a community and like what I…
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The Community Planning Program in Dereel
This article was written by Kim Stanley What is the Community Planning Program? Golden Plains Shire started the Community Planning Program in 2000. Before this, it was recognised that many communities had great difficulty in working together to agree on and implement local priorities, whether due to the lack of social networks, suitable communication skills,…
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Dereel People – Rick Olsson
1. How long have you lived in the area? About 3 or 4 years, we were looking for about 20 acres for a reasonable price. It is centrally located for my work with surrounding shires. 2. What’s great about living here? The quietness. It’s good for gold hunting and hunting rabbits. I like the people that…
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Let’s Start Talking
It’s up to us, as a whole community, to decide what we want for Dereel. It’s going to take a lot of talking, exploring ideas and thinking about what is important to us. It’s our town, hence our responsibility – and opportunity – to make of it what we will. We are asking YOU to…
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