Welcome to Your Macedon Ranges for the week of Monday, November 29, to Sunday, December 5.
🏃♀️ Campaspe Parkrun resumed in Woodend last weekend after Covid restrictions meant it was paused for a couple of months. Lancefield Parkrun’s return, though, has been delayed. The organisers are hoping it will be back soon. However, they need more volunteers before this can happen. Interested in joining either Parkrun? Find out more about Campaspe Parkrun here and Lancefield Parkrun here.
📋 I’ve tweaked the what’s on guide to make it easier to read. Exhibitions have been removed from the daily listings and placed in a section of their own.
Here are the events and activities happening in the Macedon Ranges this week:
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Tuesday, November 30
Quiz Team Trivia Challenge: Topical and fun questions plus some games. Gisborne. 6.30pm-9pm. Free.
Wednesday, December 1
Craft Social Craft Group: Enjoy the company of like-minded people while you’re being creative. Woodend. 10am-11am. Gold coin donation.
Singing Woodend Warblers: Community choir rehearsal. Everyone welcome. Norma Richardson Hall, Buckland St, Woodend. 7.30pm. $12.
Friday, December 3
Lunch & Learn Peter Robinson: Hear Melbourne Storm’s player wellbeing coordinator talk about leadership and creating a culture of sustained success. Gisborne. 12pm. $100.
Quiz Christmas Trivia Night: Hosted by Col Cameron. Winning team receives $50 pub voucher. Woodend. 6.30pm. Free.
Music Kim Salmon: Haunted Grooves is Kim’s telling of some of the stories left to him by people he’s collaborated with. Kyneton. 8.30pm-11pm. $25.
Exhibitions
Online Macedon Ranges Art Trail Exhibition: Paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings and mixed media by 26 artists. Until December 9.
Kyneton Buttlejorrk Artists: The group’s 45th anniversary show. Features work by 11 members and six special guests. Until December 6. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat-Sun 10am-4pm.
Kyneton Moments of Being and Everything in Between – Lynka: Explores a woman’s relationship with herself and others, and ultimately her place in the world. Until December 6. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat-Sun 10pm-4pm.
Kyneton A Biodiversity Crisis – Animals and Plants of the Macedon Ranges: Interactive exhibition. Contains taxidermy. Fri-Sun 11am-4pm. Adult $5.10, Concession/student $3.10, Child under 5 free, Family $10.20.
Kyneton Becc Orszag, Jason Waterhouse, Honor Freeman: Until January 9. Sat 10.30am-5pm, Sun 11am-3pm. Official opening: Sat 4.30pm.
Newham Art in the Vines – AV4: Sculptures by 26 acclaimed artists. Until April 25. Every day 10am-5pm.
Trentham Little Gallery Members: Artwork by Rose Wilson, Helen Cottle, Kim Haughie, Ri Van Veen, Larissa Gray, Llael McDonald, Frances Harkin, Liz Archer, Ruby Wilson-Peirce, Sam Bloomfield. Thu-Mon 10am-4pm.
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Saturday, December 4
Exercise Campaspe Parkrun: 5km fun run along the Five Mile Creek path. Campaspe Park, Campaspe Dr, Woodend. 8am. Free (registration required).
Market Woodend Farmers’ Market: Cnr High St & Forest St. 9am-1pm.
Craft Beeswax Wrap Making: Learn to make your own beautiful and reusable beeswax or vegan wraps and sandwich bags. Trentham Neighbourhood Centre, 56 High St. 10.30am-12pm. $40.
Food & Drink American Barbecue Pizza and Wine Pairing: Pulled pork or beef brisket pizzas and five wines. Double Oaks Estate, 104 Ashworths Rd, Lancefield. From 12pm. $50.
Music Blues and Brews: Blues music with Bill Barber. DV Cider, 39 Darraweit Valley Rd, Darraweit Guim. 12.30pm-4.30pm.
Market Gisborne Montessori School’s Twilight Christmas Market: Gifts, arts and crafts, homewares, groceries, and face painting. Gisborne Montessori School, 57 Barringo Rd, New Gisborne. 3pm-9pm.
Music Waterloo: All the hits that made Abba famous. Telegraph Hotel, Hamilton St, Gisborne. From 9pm. $25.
Sunday, December 5
Market Daylesford Sunday Market: Daylesford Railway Station, Raglan St. 8am-3pm.
Food & Drink American Barbecue Pizza and Wine Pairing: Pulled pork or beef brisket pizzas and five wines. Double Oaks Estate, 104 Ashworths Rd, Lancefield. From 12pm. $50.
Music The JB4: Jenny Blake with Rod Hulls (keyboard), Graham White (trumpet) and Peter Cocklin (bass). Plus wood-fired pizzas. Hedge Farm, 124 Three Chain Rd, Carlsruhe. From 12pm. $58.
Coming up
Weather Central Victorian Climate – Today, Tomorrow and the Future (online): Felicity Gamble, a senior climatologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, will present extended and long-range forecasts. Healthy Landscapes Project. December 7.
Books Heather Morris – The Tattooist of Auschwitz Trilogy: Hear international best-selling author Heather Morris talk about her journey in uncovering and writing remarkable real-life stories. Woodend. December 10.
Market Romsey Christmas Illuminations and Twilight Market: Festive lights, food trucks, shopping, music. Market at the Mechanics Institute. Romsey. December 10-11.
Theatre Theatre Restaurant: Enjoy a three-course meal while watching two one-act comedies by the GAB Theatre. Lancefield. December 11.
Community A Christmassy Concert: Local performers, kids’ activities, prizes for best-dressed, Santa, and more. Malmsbury. December 11.
Music Absolute 80s Show: Scott Carne, Brian Mannix and Dale Ryder perform their hits. Gisborne. December 19.
Have a great week!
Richard
P.S. I’ve tried my best to ensure accuracy, but please follow the links above to confirm details before attending events.
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Then & Now
With thanks to Trentham & District Historical Society.
The little weatherboard cottage at 3 Camp St served as Trentham’s police station from 1866 to 1984.
That it remains on the site is largely due to Sgt Jack Burke, who was in charge at Trentham from 1961 to 1988. During the 1980s, he resisted pressure to move or demolish the police buildings, until their protection was taken over in 1987 by the newly formed Trentham & District Historical Society.
Government reviews of the time observed that the complex was a “fairly rare example of a 19th-century timber country police compound, which still retains a large and comprehensive range of early building types”.
When Trentham Police Station opened in April 1866, it is likely the portable single-cell lock-up was also on the site. The double-cell lock-up arrived in 1879, and the stables and tack room were probably built in 1885, at the same time as the officer-in-charge’s residence around the corner in Cosmo Rd (which later made way for the current police station).
Trentham had mounted officers until the late 1950s. It was the last police station in regional Victoria to have them.
The main police building originally consisted of two rooms with a shared chimney but no access between them. On the left was the office; on the right, the constable’s quarters. After 1930, the office and quarters changed rooms – and a door between them was finally added.
✍️ Sue Worthington, curator of Trentham & District Historical Society.
🎙️ Listen to a podcast about Trentham Police Station, from a series by Trentham & District Historical Society called Archive Treasures.
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