Newsletter 27 October 2024
COMING UP:
- Wednesday 30 October 9.30 am start Working Bee at Ryder Cheshire, 10-14 Donaldson St, Ivanhoe
- Saturday 2 November 9.30 am start Working Bee on Studley Road, outside No 62
- Thursday 7 November 2pm start Meet Up and Make It craft group, in The Dish.
Aniseed Cafe will be closed for the Cup Weekend, reopening on Wednesday 6 November
This Newsletter includes information about changes on the Committee, a report with photos about a Corporate working bee we hosted in early October, some great ideas, a message about reporting things to Council, quite a bit of local history, and of course Dogs of Eaglemont.
One President retires, another is elected.
At Saturday's AGM President Stephen Lake stepped down from being President. He will continue as an active member of the committee. We thank him for steering the group over the difficult months since John Walkley's passing. A message from Stephen is in the link below:
New Office bearers have been elected:
- President: Steve Cullen
- Treasurer: Brett Barclay will continue
- Secretary: Mike Fittall takes over from Steve Cullen
- Other Committee members: Pippa, Liz L, Liz D, Sally
A big THANK YOU to
- All the volunteers from DKSH who came on Friday 4 October and helped us clean up and plant out along Alandale Road. We cleared a lot of weeds, and put in over 100 plants - a combination of the last of those propagated by John Walkley, some purchased with FoEV funds, and some with a CERES voucher very generously donated by a member.
- All the FoEV volunteers who turned out to help on the day, and on the following day for the finishing touches
- And thanks to DKSH for morning tea!
- Thanks also to all those people who work to keep things going (weeding, mulching, watering etc): Special mentions to Brett, Don and Bev for the area between Odenwald Road and Wimbledon Grove; to Sally for regular watering of the new plantings south of Wimbledon; to Brett for all the work he also does along Sherwood Road; to Liz D for keeping the Ashby Grove end of Sherwood Road and up to the substation looking fantastic; to Mike for all the weeding and other things; and to everyone who comes and helps at the working bees.
Can you help us keep the plants going through summer? If you can water a particular area please let us know at eaglemontvoice@outlook.com. Thanks!
Some GREAT ideas (thanks to Mary V for the first two and Jen C for the third):
- op shops get flooded with no longer needed toys AFTER Christmas. A better option with two benefits is for folk to clean out the cupboards during November -- making room for the Christmas influx of new toys, at the same time as stocking op-shop shelves with potential Christmas gift toys.
- Container deposit scheme (CDS) -- many households might be like me -- only having one or two bottles for the CDS every few weeks - not worth trudging to the depot. Eaglemont Scout Hall at Chelsworth Park has a drop-in collection bin -- next time you are walking the dog or exercising there, drop your bottles there and give the scouts a bit of cash.
- Banyule Council will give you a voucher for 10 free tubestock plants - if you purchase 10 plants from either VINC (Fairfield) or Latrobe Wildlife Sanctuary Indigenous Nursery. This is one way you could donate locally indigenous plants to FoEV to plant out along the rail corridor. One voucher per Banyule address, per financial year. Of course, if you'd rather put them in your own garden that's great too. Follow this link to claim your voucher.
Reporting things to Council ... In response to something in last month's report from our President Stephen Lake we received the following statement from Cr Peter Castaldo : Thanks for providing all the great info in your news letters 😊 I have noticed there is reference to snap send solve council is trying to discourage the use of that and to use the “report it” method through the council website … if you go to google and type “report it banyule” it goes to the page or here is the link. https://www.banyule.vic.gov.au/Contact-us/Report-it-to-us
LOCAL HISTORY
A lot of history in this newsletter (most courtesy of our history correspondent Nilss). Scroll to the end for links to items about The Glenard Estate; and Eaglemont Village by Dawn Davis.
The article by Dawn Davis describes Eaglemont of yesteryear - when there was a dairy, a plant nursery, and in Silverdale Rd a newsagency/post office and general store, a chemist, a 'ham and beef' shop, a wood yard, a grocer, a Cake and Confectionary store, a real estate agency, a dentist, a bootmaker, fruiterer, barber, grocery store, haberdashery, milliner, watchmaker, delicatessen and there used to be visits from a travelling circus. How times have changed!!
Thanks to Nilss again ...
Brought to you byABC MELBOURNEPresented byRafael EpsteinThis booklet is available from the Heidelberg Historical Society for $15. Open Sundays 2-5 pm in the Old Court House, Jika St Heidelberg, or call Steven 0438507647.
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