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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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Updated Dereel Community Health & Wellbeing Program
Lucy has sent us an updated newsletter to promote the Dereel Community Health and Wellbeing Program. This now includes a free session run by the Ballarat Hospice on Tuesday Feb 28th 9:30 am in the Dereel Community Centre Kitchen. Also, don’t forget the Dereel Community BBQ, scheduled for 5pm on Friday 3rd February at the Dereel…
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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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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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BDNH Calendar for January and February 2017
Lucy Osmond, Dereel’s Community Wellbeing Officer, has forwarded the latest BDNH newsletter to Dereel Spokes. Click on this link to open the newsletter in PDF form. dereel-newsletter-janfeb-2017
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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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Hub Cafe is BACK Today!
It’s shaping up for a hot day for our first Hub Cafe of 2017, but we will have the air conditioning on and some delicious coffee, hot chocolate and chai for you. Hub Cafe operates from the Dereel Community Centre kitchen from 2pm to 4pm every Saturday. It’s a good opportunity to meet up with…
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Merry Christmas from DCHI
Merry Christmas to everyone from all of us involved with the Dereel Community Hub Inc. Wishing you all a happy and safe festive season. See you in 2017 The Hub Cafe is taking a break over the Christmas and New Year period. We start up again on Saturday 7th January from 2pm to 4pm at…
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Reminder: Dereel Christmas Picnic on Saturday
Invitation to the Dereel Community Dereel Community Hub Inc. invite you to our picnic to celebrate Christmas. This is an opportunity to relax with your friends and neighbours, and there may even be a visit from a man in a red suit—so make sure you bring the kids along too. We want to keep this…
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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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Farewell to Footy:
Text by Lorraine Ellis; Photos courtesy of Lucy Osmond Thank you to the people in the Dereel community for supporting The Walking Group’s Farewell to Footy Pie Lunch, held at the beginning of October. The company was good, the food good and everyone enjoyed catching up with other locals. Also, a big thank you to…
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Dereel Walking and Chat Group
By Lorraine Ellis It was great to see some new faces at breakfast on Cup Day – there was even a visitor from interstate. It was a fun morning and thanks to the couple of girls who came wearing Melbourne Cup hats – they looked very glamorous ! The Sweep was a bit of fun…
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Dereel Birds
Photograph and text by Caelum Picket Here we have what is known as a Tawny Frogmouth, also known as the Mopoke owl for the call they make. This photo was taken by me at my house down Ferrers Road. The nest was situated up a very old, tall tree. This is a mating pair and…
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November/December Wellbeing Program
Activities for November and December are listed below. A link to the November/December program is here: Walk & Cuppa Tuesday from 8:30am, Dereel Kitchen Come and join the walking group on a Tuesday morning. Enjoy having a chat in the kitchen or going for a short or long walk in the local area followed by…
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A Christmas Picnic!
Invitation to the Dereel Community Dereel Community Hub Inc. invite you to our picnic to celebrate Christmas. This is an opportunity to relax with your friends and neighbours, and there may even be a visit from a man in a red suit—so make sure you bring the kids along too. We want to keep this…
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Dereel History
The final meeting of the Dereel History Group for 2016 will be held on Saturday 26th November from 2pm to 4pm in the Dereel Community Centre. Julie Donaghy has been following up information provided to her by local people, as well as doing her own original research. Many of the leads have proved to be…
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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…
Dereel Spokes Newsletter 