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Footy Pie Night
Originally posted on Dereel Spokes Newsletter: This Weekend: Saturday 21st September Celebrate the football finals with the community on Saturday evening with a good hot pie and friendly rivalry.? Come dressed in your team colours and show your loyalty. Kids activities, a trivia quiz, door prizes and more. The Dereel Community Hub and Dereel CFA…
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Journal Writing Sessions in Dereel
Journal writing can help with personal wellbeing through reflection on experiences and emotions, among other things. A new free, journal writing group is starting up in Dereel and will run once a month. Clarissa Stein will lead you through journal writing methods using writing prompts. Some participants may volunteer to read out their reflections, enabling…
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Adopt A Bird House
We have a number of gorgeous rustic bird houses to refurbish. These were donated to our community after the bushfires of 2013. Workshop for the Family As part of the Dereel community activities in 2019, we want your family to ‘adopt’ a bird house and refurbish it. This may involve a good brush down, maybe…
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Devonshire Tea! We’re Back!
Happy New Year to everyone! The next Hub Cafe Devonshire Tea will be on Saturday 19th January in the Dereel Community Centre kitchen. Hope to see you there at some stage between 2pm and 4pm. Newspapers also available at retail prices: The Age, the Herald Sun and the Ballarat Courier.
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Food is Free Dereel
Have you heard of the Food is Free global project? Perhaps you have seen the stalls at Food is Free Laneway in Ballarat, or Food is Free Smythesdale. Well, it’s coming to town. Food is Free Dereel will be launching on Saturday 11th March around 2pm. The stall will be set up on a bench…
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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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Dereel Community Garden – News
By Robyn Miles Things are starting to happen around the Hall. You may not have noticed but the Dereel Community Gardening Group have been working feverishly on the next phase and you should start to see small changes. Spring has sprung and we are all in a rush to get our garden beds planted out…
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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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Meet Fiona: Our New Community Wellbeing Officer
By Fiona Robson My name is Fiona Robson and I am the new Community Wellbeing Officer for Dereel. My role is to work with people in Dereel to help us to be healthy and well. We are planning a Community Day on Saturday 10th September. All community groups are invited to be involved and everyone…
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Dereel People: Julie Avery-Donaghy
1 How long have you lived in the area? Since December 1992. We came up from Melton because we wanted to move to the country and have horses. This was the first one we looked at, and it had town water! 2 What’s great about living here? I like the weather and the soil to grow…
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