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Lake Wendouree with The Dereel Walking Group
Walk around Lake Wendouree with the Dereel Walking Group on Tuesday 18th July. All welcome for long or short walk and coffee afterwards. The group are meeting at ‘Piper’s on the Lake’ at 9am, and that is also where they will be having coffee. For more information, please contact Lorraine Ellis.
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Hub Cafe and Colouring
Hub Cafe is on again today at 2pm with espresso coffee, filter coffee. hot chocolate and chai all on offer. So if you feel like a cappuccino, latte or long black, come on in and say ‘Hello”, We have soy milk as well as full cream milk. Carol and Glynis are running a colouring-in…
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Walk the Karuc-a-Ruc Trail
Sent by Jacinta Walsh, Trailblazers Walks Our next walk is Thursday 1st June 2017. We will meet at Hesse Health, 57 Ferrars Street, Rokewood at 10am and be dropped off at the Corindhap Hall to start the walk. We are walking 6km along the Kuruc-a-Ruc Trail, from Corindhap to Rokewood, on a good gravel track. This includes…
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Colouring at Hub Cafe
“Colouring In” returns to Hub Cafe on Saturday 27th from 2pm to 4pm – everyone welcome. Bring your pencils, pens and other materials and chat. If you draw or do other forms of art, please join in. The Hub Cafe will be operating as normal, so if you just want to call in for a…
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Dereel Maths Help Group
by Erin Gallagher Are you, or your student needing some help with mathematics? Maybe the Dereel Maths Help group is what you need? Recently released research indicates that over 45% of parents feel uncertain helping their children or young people in their care with mathematics homework, whilst a staggering 75% of students wished they had…
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Dereel Wellbeing in May and June
From Lucy Oswin, The May/June edition of the Dereel Wellbeing Newsletter is now available. View it here. Note the Christmas in July event on Tuesday 4th July: more information about this coming soon.
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Hub Cafe on Saturday
The Hub Cafe is on again this Saturday from 2:oo pm to 4:00 pm. We have freshly brewed coffee (long black, latte, cappuccino etc) hot chocolate or chai. Drop in and catch up with friends and neighbours for a chat.
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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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Art In Dereel : Organic Theme
The next Art In Dereel gathering will be on Saturday 3rd June at 1:30 pm. This month’s theme is ‘organic’ so bring something creative to show and tell us about it. It can be your own work or a work by someone else that inspires you in some way. Our process is simple: we…
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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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Hub Cafe Cancelled Saturday 22 April
Unfortunately we cannot run the Hub Cafe on Saturday 22nd April as our volunteers have family commitments. The next Hub Cafe will be on Saturday 29th April from 2 pm to 4 pm. Please come along and support us.
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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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Coffee and Chat: Hub Cafe Today
There are no activities happening today, but the coffee, hot chocolate and chai will be brewing and that leaves a lot of time for chatting! Drop into the Dereel Community Centre any time between 2pm and 4pm. Everyone welcome!
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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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Art In Dereel: What Inspires You?
Local artists and crafters interested in building an active arts community in Dereel, agreed to meet on the third Saturday of the month at the Community Centre. In the first of these gatherings we’ll discuss inspiration. What inspires you? How do you use this inspiration in your work? The discussion starts at 1:30pm on Saturday…
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Trailblazer Walks: Schedule
The Trailblazer Walks are on again in 2017 and Jacinta has sent Dereel Spokes the schedule from March to June. The walk will be in Dereel on Thursday 6th April, commencing at the Dereel Hall at 10:00am. The full program, including contact details, is printed in this brochure: Trailblazer-Walks-March-July-2017.
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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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Maps of Dereel
Our own Pam Bailey is leading the Maps, Signage and Publications component of the community plan. Last week, Pam invited Golden Plains Shire’s Mick Cosgriff to Dereel to discuss two new maps. The first map is part of Golden Plains Shire map updates, and is not part of the community plan. This map is aimed…
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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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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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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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