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June 2019 Edition

The Shire of Sandstone Hack St, Sandstone WA 6639

Ph: 08 9963 5802 Fax 08 9963 5852

SUNRISE AT SANDSTONE

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PG 2 Contents

PG 3 Emergency Medical Assistance

PG 4-5 From the desk of the CEO

PG 6 Environmental Health Officer details/ TIP

PG 7 Bush Fire Brigade meeting.

PG 8 Piano concert in Town Hall

PG 9 Murchison Dental Service

PG 10 Visitor Feedback PG 11 Flu Vaccines

PG 12-13 1080 poison dog baits

PG 14 Astro Dome now Operational!

PG 15-17 Heritage Museum & Visitor Centre PG 18 Water Park visitors

PG 19 Update from The Nationals

PG 20-21 Mt Magnet Pottery Group

PG 22 Property for sale

PG 23 History Corner

PG 24 Community Bus travelling to Mt Magnet

PG 25 KANOPY movie downloads

PG 26 Black Range Tearooms

PG 27 Community Craft Group

PG 28 Soy candles for sale

PG 29 Unique signs for sale

PG 30-31 June Horoscopes

PG 32-33 Recipes

PG 34 Mental Health notice

PG 35 Business advertisements PG 36 Public Notices PG 37 Directory of Services

PG 38-40 Community Bulletin Board

PG 41-45 Health Services/Calendar

PG 46 Events Calendar

Front Cover— Thanks Kim Moon for sending in the beautiful sunrise pic.

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Sandstone Emergency Numbers for Police and Fire 000

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Shire News Shire of Sandstone

Hack Street SANDSTONE WA 6639 Phone: 08 9963 5802 Fax: 08 9663 5852

Email: reception@sandstone.wa.gov.au

From the Desk of the CEO Works Supervisor David Holland has settled into the position well and while he has only been here a few weeks his experience and expertise is already being noticed in decisions and suggestions he has made. Applications have closed for the Gardener/Handyman position with interviews to be carried out soon. There were several good applicants and I am optimistic that the towns gardens will be in good hands moving forward. At the May Council meeting items discussed included the Objectives and Reasons for charging differential rates in the shire. This document is required as part of the process of getting ministerial approval to charge higher rates on properties used for mining activities than are charged on residential and pastoral properties. No information had been received from Horizon Power on the electricity requirements for the proposed units at the caravan park so that item was left on the table. Information received since the meeting has revealed that the excessive cost of a power upgrade may make the proposal unviable however other options are being considered. Other items discussed were the compliance issue of the annual review of the delegations register which delegates certain decision making powers to the CEO and sub delegations to the Works Supervisor from the CEO. A late item was introduced to the meeting regarding a request from film maker Jordon Prince-Wright for sponsorship of his latest World War 1 film based on true events. Council resolved 4/2 to offer sponsorship of $20,000 plus in kind support and in return quite a bit of filming will be done in Sandstone and the shire will be promoted at various functions and screenings of the movie plus our shire logo will be included in the credits at the end of the film. It is anticipated that this sponsorship and the exposure of Sandstone at promotional events will increase tourism to the shire. The community will be invited to get involved in the making of the film through helping out with things like catering for the crew and actors. Residents would have noticed that the installation of the long promised bowling green at the community centre was undertaken in late May with the new facility providing new recreational opportunities for locals and visitors to town. There will be a little bit of work required to be done by the shire to finish things off when the installers leave before the green can be used. Keep an eye on notice boards for details of when the facility will be available for use and planned bowling events. Harry Hawkins Chief Executive Officer

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Shire News Shire of Sandstone

Hack Street SANDSTONE WA 6639 Phone: 08 9963 5802 Fax: 08 9663 5852

Email: reception@sandstone.wa.gov.au

The shire’s new Caterpillar Grader, which arrived on 14th May.

This will be used by our Maintenance Grader operator to maintain our roads and keep them safe for us all to travel on.

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Shire News Shire of Sandstone

Hack Street SANDSTONE WA 6639 Phone: 08 9963 5802 Fax: 08 9663 5852

Email: reception@sandstone.wa.gov.au

The Environmental Health Officer for the Shire of Sandstone is Dave Hadden. Dave’s contact details are:- Principal EHO/Building Surveyor Shires of Leonora, Laverton, Menzies & Sandstone. Phone- 9037 6044 Mobile- 0428376044 Email- healthbuilding@leonora.wa.gov.au ___________________________________________________________________

RUBBISH TIP

When taking green waste to the tip, PLEASE place this in the appropriate

sign posted area, NOT in the household waste area.

Thank You

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Regular Fire Brigade meetings/training will be held at the fire station

on the fourth Thursday of each month, commencing at 5pm.

The next meeting will be on 27th June 2019

New members welcome!

For further info contact

Sandstone Bush Fire Brigade Captain

Vic Taylor on 0407 845 379

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Once again, Roman is coming to Sandstone to play for us. Last time he was very well received and we look forward to his visit on

25th June in the Town Hall. 6pm start, Free entry, please bring a plate for supper afterwards.

Biographical Sketch

Roman Rudnytsky is an American concert pianist of Ukrainian background whose performances take him all over the world. A graduate of the famous Juilliard School in New York, he has as of 2017 played in about 100 countries. Born in New York into a family of professional musicians, Roman Rudnytsky started the study of piano at age four and gave his first recital at age seven. He is a prize winner of ten national and international piano competitions, including 2nd Prize in the International Leventritt Competition in New York- at that time, the most prestigious international competition for piano and violin in the USA. He has been soloist with many orchestras around the world, playing with them over 45 different works for piano and orchestra. He has also played many concerts in over 35 countries since 1984 through the auspices of US Embassies and has also played recitals on about 70 cruises of P&O and Cunard ships to and from the UK. His most recent performances (in 2018) were on the islands of Guam and Saipan, in Chile (ninth tour), in the UK, and on four cruises of P&O and Cunard ships (including the Queen Mary 2). 2019 concerts so far have included performances in the state of Ohio in the USA (January), Guam and Saipan (February), and his tenth tour in Chile (April). In May, he played two recitals in the Boston area. Later in 2019, he will be playing recitals on three cruises of P&O and Cunard ships and seven recitals in the UK in-between. Roman Rudnytsky has come to Australia for concert tours every two years since 1979 and has played about 600 concerts there in that time - more than in any other country he has travelled to. These have ranged from the Sydney Opera House to many small country and Outback towns in every State and in the NT - for many local arts councils, at many regional performing arts centres, at universities, and as soloist with several orchestras. Mr. Rudnytsky gave the Australian premiere performance in 1993 of the then-recently-discovered Liszt Concerto No.3 in E Flat for piano and orchestra as soloist with the SBS Youth Orchestra in the Sydney Town Hall. The SBS broadcast this concert through its TV network as part of its documentary on this concerto, called "Discovering Liszt". He also served twice as Artist-in-Residence at the Univ. of Melbourne Faculty of Music and once at the Univ. of Wollongong School of Creative Arts. Roman Rudnytsky is also currently "Professor Emeritus" of the Dana School of Music of Youngstown (Ohio) State University, where he served on the piano and music faculty for 39 years. His 2019 Australian is his 21st there and will go from mid-June to mid-September, with 22 concerts to play. This recital in Sandstone is his second one here.

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The below feedback was received via email from one of our Sandstone visitors. My husband and I (plus 2 friends) visited Sandstone for the first time on the weekend of 11/12th May and we were immediately impressed with the neatness of the town. The locals we met were friendly and welcoming. I picked up a copy of May 2019's "Bush Telegraph" at the Alice Atkinson Caravan Park and I have to say I was most impressed with that too. I note you have asked for donations for future issues so I thought I would contact you. (I have been responsible for putting together newsletters etc in my past life and I know how difficult it is to come up with items that are refreshing, new and interesting and how hard it is to get stories together for the next issue. Very few people volunteer items and it usually means you have to "twist arms", chase people up and maybe take your own photos.) I would like to commend you on the way you have put the May issue together. It must be difficult in a small town to find enough interesting items each month but you have done that well and creatively, illustrating advertisements with appropriate and sometimes fun pictures. Well done you!!! It is obvious that the residents of Sandstone are proud of their town and that is very commendable. Look what you have achieved by pulling together!! For me our visit was an unexpected pleasure and I would like you to convey to the people of Sandstone that their efforts are noted and appreciated. Keep up the good work! You are a beautiful and precious jewel in the outback's crown. With much appreciation Carol Cocks Mount Barker, SA 5251 PS I will send you a photo and 3 recipes which you might be able to use in a future BT issue. Editors note : Recipes will be in following editions.

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Come and experience the amazing view of the night sky Sandstone provides.

You can get a closer look with our now operational Astrodome. Viewings are by arrangement, bookings can be made at the Heritage Museum & Visitor Centre, cnr Hack and Oroya Streets,

Sandstone. Phone 9963 5861.

ASTRONOMY DOME NOW OPERATIONAL!

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Moving the glass display case from the Shire office to the newly revamped Heritage Museum and Visitor Centre was a three man job!

The case contains memorabilia from the ‘Remembering Them’ display. If

you haven’t seen the display it is worth a trip into the Visitor Centre to have a look, Vickie and Kim will make you very welcome.

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Our Water Playground has been getting a bit of a work out lately, even with the cooler weather.

These ‘youngsters’ had a great time!

You don’t stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing.

Our Visitor Centre has only been open for 4 weeks, but we’ve had some lovely feedback already. Some of the comment from our Visitor Book include:- “Best kept little museum we’ve come across” “Pretty town, lovely bougainvillea's” “Great staff” “Nice tidy place” “Beautiful little town”

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Updated 10th May 2019

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HISTORY CORNER— An excerpt from the book

“Sandstone—from Gold to Wool and Back Again” by Sally L Senior

SPORT—pg 269-270

As in all early goldfields towns, sport played a very big part in the lives of the residents, in particular the men. It was their way of forgetting their worries, and of ‘letting off steam’, but most of all it was for companionship. Although many of the men worked on the big mines in the early days, there were still a very large number who mostly lived and worked alone. This has continued into modern times, when many still work alone for most of the week, and the getting together with others to play a sport is their one luxury—a time of comparing notes and general talk, as well as a ‘good cold beer’ afterwards. The first sports mentioned in those early years in the life of Nungarra were those that did not require any extra equipment. Most men owned a gun of some description, for shooting game for food if nothing else, so a rifle shooting club was naturally one of the first to be organised. Many owned bicycles as their means of transport, so cycle races were popular, and horses were widely used for both riding and wheeled transport, so it was inevitable that horseracing would develop. For team sport, football and cricket were popular, and with the different mines and settlements getting together their own teams, great rivalry soon developed. As among men the world over, boxing was a popular spectator, and sometimes participator, sport. To give some indication of the sporting activities in the Black Range/Sandstone area over time, each will be dealt with separately and in alphabetical order, not the order of which started first. Badminton Badminton was introduced in the 1960s, then the shire used moneys allocated to it for sporting facilities to purchase sporting equipment for the district, including badminton racquets, a net and shuttlecocks. This was played in the Shire Hall, which was suitably marked out. It enjoyed great popularity to begin with, then faded out. It has been recommended several times since, but has never really ‘taken off’. Boxing Although it was inevitable that there were boxing matches held in and around Nungarra and Black Range, there are no records of organised fights before the main population moved to Sandstone in 1907. From then onwards, organised boxing matches were quite common between local pugilists and visiting boxers, and usually for a stake. The stake money may not seem high by today’s standards, but considering most would be lucky to be earning more than 5pd per week, the amounts were well worth fighting for. One of the first recorded was a twenty-round match for a stake of 50pd between Jock O’Donoghue and Ike Murphy, in the new Australian Workers Association Hall in 1908. O’Donoghue won. In May of the same year, a match between Smith (from Victoria) and Lynch (local) of 15 rounds for 25pd stake money was held. The winner was also entitled to take the gate takings. The match was won by Smith. This was followed by a re-match of Ike Murphy and Jock O’Donoghue for a stake of 30pd, but it was not said who won. Matches were usually well attended, and for the winner to make anything from the match, he frequently kept the door takings as well as the stake, so it was imperative that there be a good crowd. This was not the case when in October 1908 O’Neil beat O’Shea in a boxing match that was poorly attended. The year 1911 was a busy one for boxing in Sandstone, with many matches, including one between Sampey and Connolly on 30th August. Sampey won. No further mention of boxing is made until 1915, when in January Mick Brady appeared on the boxing scene in a fight with Tom Triat at Youanmi. However, the fight was stopped by the police, and Triat declared the winner. …../ to be continued

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COMMUNITY BUS TAKING PASSENGERS TO MT MAGNET The Sandstone Community Bus will be travelling to Mt Magnet each month for Shire business. If anyone needs to travel to Mt Magnet, we usually have available seats. We can take a maximum of 6 passengers so please book - please be aware that we adhere to a strict time schedule. The bus will leave from the Sandstone Shire Administration office at 10am and will leave Mt. Magnet at 1.30pm for the return trip home. Please book your seat by contacting either Rhonda or Margaret at the Shire office ph. 9963 5802

The next bus will be Wednesday 26th June 2019

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Ingredients

3/4 cup coconut flour

1/2 cup tapioca flour

6 eggs

1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled slightly

1 Tablespoon honey

1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar

1 teaspoon baking powder

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F and spray a bread pan with nonstick cooking spray. In a small bowl, combine dry ingredients. Stir to combine. In a large mixing bowl, add eggs. Use a hand mixer to beat eggs until slightly frothy. Slowly beat in butter, vinegar and honey. Gradually add dry ingredients into wet while stirring. Pour batter into greased bread pan and smooth evenly. Bake 30 minutes. Use a butter knife to loosen edges of bread from pan. Flip over to release bread and cool 20 minutes. Slice and serve.

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White Chocolate and

Raspberry Scones

Ingredients

3 cups (450G) self-raising flour 1 cup (250ml) chilled lemonade 600ml thickened cream 150g frozen raspberries 150g white chocolate, finely chopped

Method

Step 1. Preheat oven to 220C. Line a baking tray with baking paper

Step 2. Place flour in a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Pour in the lemonade and 1 cup (250ml) of the cream. Add the raspberries and white chocolate. Use a flat-bladed knife to stir until a soft, sticky dough forms.

Step 3. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and lightly knead until just smooth. Press into a 3cm thick disk. Use a lightly floured 5cm pastry cutter to cut disks from the dough, re-rolling dough if necessary. Place the scones, side-by-side, on the lined tray.

Step 4. Meanwhile, use an electric mixer to whisk the remaining cream in a bowl until soft peaks form.

Step 5 Serve scones warm or at room temperature with whipped cream.

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Pastoralists and D.E.C. in the Sandstone and

surrounding Shire’s have an ongoing wild dog bait programme. Please be advised

BAITS WILL BE ON THE GROUND ALL YEAR ROUND

Also just a friendly reminder to keep your dogs locked

up, or on a leash if out walking.

To avoid being

penalised all dogs and cats must be kept in your yards or on leads at all times. Please clean up after

your dog!!!!!

All dogs must be registered. If your dog is not registered, or if you

are unsure when the registration expires,

please contact the Shire office.

The RANGER is making more and more frequent

visits to Sandstone.

When was the last time you

visited your local library?

We don’t just have books,

there are DVDs and Audio

books as well, so next time

you are passing the office,

pop in and have a look.

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JPB Contracting

Paul (Scruffy) Bennett

Ph: 0427 841 888

Please note this is NOT a service provided at the Shire of Sandstone so please call for an appointment .

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Mount Magnet Post & Lotteries

Gifts, cards, stationery, art supplies.

Passport photos and much more Drop in and browse

Check out the website www.mtmagnetpost.com

SANDSTONE LIBRARY Open Monday—Friday 8.30am—4.30pm

Casual memberships welcome

• Interlibrary Loans • Audio Books • Internet access • DVDs • Fiction and non Fiction books

Dog registrations are due by the end of October

each year. Please check your dog’s registration or contact the Shire office to check if your dog’s registration needs

renewal

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YOU MUST CONTACT THE SHIRE OF SANDSTONE PRIOR TO

DISPOSAL OF ANY ASBESTOS MATERIALS

Phone 9963 5802 Mondays - Fridays

8:30 - 4:00pm

LEGAL ACTION WILL BE TAKEN FOR

NON-COMPLIANCE

We are always after articles for the Bush Telegraph so if you have a story, a photo

or maybe a birthday, or perhaps there is something

you would like to see in your newsletter please

contact Rhonda at the Shire office on email -

finance@sandstone.wa.gov.au

ROTARY CLUB We are the very first Rotary Club

that is based purely online in WA. This enables people living in remote/regional areas the op-tion to still provide a service to their local community by joining Rotary E club of E.WA. It’s a

new and vital Rotary Experience.

We meet via online webinars

and the use of Facebook, both open to the public and private

sessions.

Name: E-WA Rotary Address: www.ewarotary.org.au www.facebook.com/ewarotary Ph 0408 802 490 Community Group Name : E-WA Rotary—Kerry O’Shea rotaryewa@gmail.com We’d love to hear from you :)

Westcoast Seafood

Email: sjoppo@katel.net.au Contact Stan to see when he will be in

Sandstone next

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Looking for Gold? Want to Prospect near Sandstone?

Please contact the Mt Magnet Office of the Department of

Mines and Petroleum, Cnr Hepburn and Richardson

St

Telephone (08) 9963 4509

Heritage Museum &

Visitor Centre

Now open 7 days a week

Ordinary Meeting

of Council

The next meeting of Council will be held on Thursday 27th June 2019 at 12.30 p.m.

The Agenda is viewable at the Sandstone Public Library and on-line at

www.sandstone.wa.gov.au once prepared.

Alice Atkinson Caravan Park 08 9963 5859 Main Roads - Road Conditions 13 81 38

(24 Hr Customer Contact Centre )

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Mt Magnet Police 08 9963 3222

National Hotel 08 9963 5801

Outback Accommodation 08 9963 5869

Sandstone Museum &

Visitor Information Centre 08 9963 5061

Sandstone Nursing Post 08 9963 5808

Shire of Sandstone Office

Useful Sandstone Phone Numbers

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Sandstone Nursing post Irvine St Sandstone

Nurse - Lana Lefroy 9963 5808 or 9963 5831

MEDICAL SERVICES AVAILABLE IN

WILUNA

The following medical services are available from visiting specialists through the Wiluna Medical Centre. These services are free of charge and are available to Sandstone residents and the travelling public.

To make an appointment for visiting specialists, contact Wiluna Medical Centre 9981 8600

Dental (Monthly) Gynaecologist

Audiologist Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)

Cardiologist Respiratory

Health and Well being services

Child Health Services, Paediatrician

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Sandstone Nursing post Irvine St Sandstone

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Sandstone Nursing post Irvine St Sandstone

Nurse - Lana Lefroy 9963 5808 or 9963 5831

TELEPHONE HELP LINES

Mental Health Emergency Response Line

(formerly Psychiatric Emergency Team)

Perth WA 6000 Tel: 08 9224 8888

RuralLink

Tel: 1800 552 002

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Sandstone Nursing post Irvine St Sandstone

Nurse - Lana Lefroy 9963 5808 or 9963 5831

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Sandstone Nursing post Irvine St Sandstone

Nurse - Lana Lefroy 9963 5808 or 9963 5831

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If you would like your event to appear on the Community Planner please contact the Shire of Sandstone Phone: 9963 5802 Fax: 9963 5852 Email: finance@sandstone.wa.gov.au

JUNE 2019

Internet is available at Sandstone Library in the Shire building

Monday—Friday 8.30am—4.30pm

We don’t have public WIFI but you can use our computers to access the internet