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Upper South Coast of NSWUpper South Coast of NSWUpper South Coast of NSWUpper South Coast of NSW

Serving the communities of Kiama,

Gerringong, Jamberoo, Kiama Downs,

Minnamurra and Gerroa

Congratulations to

the Class of 2014 p3

They call Kiama

Home p 3

Help build a rotunda

at Jamberoo p3

Bright start to the

K.I.S.S. Arts Festival

p4

Inside this issue

A delicious way to eat on a summer’s evening.

Changing multicultural menu of plates to share.

Fridays and Saturdays in January, from 6pm* Bookings advisable

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Win a Family Pass to the Show To win, answer these questions to show you have been paying attention:

♦ How many years has the Kiama Show been going?

♦ How many classes are there?

♦ Where is the Kiama Show held?

♦ Who is the President of the Kiama Show Society?

♦ When is the Show on?

Name: Ph:

To enter, either cut out this voucher and post it to The Bugle,

4 Tingira Cres, Kiama OR email the answers to emailthebgle@gmail.com,

with Family Pass in the header. A winner will be drawn from the correct

entries on Monday 19 January.

The good news is you’ve

still got time to consider

what you are going to enter

in this year’s Kiama Show.

The on-going success of

the Show, now in its 167th

year, is dependent on the

enthusiasm our community

continues to put into it.

Its Schedule has over 1000

classes of exhibit, spread

over the Arena and Pavilion

sections. So no matter what

your interests there is no

excuse not to be involved.

The displays in the Pavil-

ion are described as the

best on the Coast, in recent

years boasting over 2000

exhibits including: vege-

tables, fruit, jams, cooking,

knitting, tapestry, crochet,

sewing, patchwork, craft,

art, floral displays, roses,

homebrew, photography,

porcelain and pottery,

spinning and weaving,

woodwork and the NSW

Dahlia Championships.

There are classes for all

ages and all levels of exhibi-

tors. Everyone is encour-

aged to enter.

The traditional Arena

events include woodchop,

cattle showing, and dress-

age and showjumping.

The Arena also hosts

a rodeo and camel races

amongst other things, with

no experience needed.

Apart from the tradi-

tional farmyard nursery

there will be the opportu-

nity to pet native creatures

including possums, croco-

diles (!), bearded dragons,

snakes and an owl .

Other entertainment has

been organised, as well as

sideshow alley and the

fireworks finale.

Kiama Show President

David Young says that the

Society always welcomes

new members to help keep

tradition alive.

Details: The Kiama Show is

on 23 and 24 January.

Entry forms for all Pavilion

sections (bar some flowers)

must be lodged at the

Pavilion by Tues 20 Jan,

with exhibits to be brought

in by particular times on

Thursday morning.

For full entry details,

see the Schedule.

www.kiamashow.com.au

t 4233 1597

4 Tingira Cres, Kiama t 4232 4990 * Excludes Sat 10 Jan

Summer Tapas Nights Back by popular demand!

Make this the year you enter the Show

Mick and Mark (right) with the trophy-laden crew

Locals do well in Sydney to Hobart Two long time Kiama residents, Mark Bakewell and

Mick Linhart, had a memorable inaugural race in

the Sydney to Hobart, with the boat they were on

coming 4th on the overall handicap rankings, 1st in

their division and 33rd across the line out of 118.

They were crew on the forty foot yacht After

Midnight, owned by brothers Mark and Glen Tobin.

The excellent performance was unexpected, as

most of the crew of ten had limited Sydney to

Hobart experience.

They completed the course in three days, one

hour and five minutes. Luckily the really bad wea-

ther came after the race, delaying the trip home.

You can leave it until the last minute to decide whether you want to compete in the Camel Races.

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What’s on?

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Editorial:Editorial:Editorial:Editorial:

Cathy Law

t 0412 415 101

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Steve Law

t 0428 662 499

Or email us at

emailthebugle@gmail.com

Disclaimer: Every effort has been made

to ensure the accuracy of the information

in this publication, but we are only human.

4 Tingira Cres, Kiama 2533

Every Wednesday

Kiama Farmers’ Market

Kiama Harbour 3-6pm

On weekends

Live music at The Sebel,

Kiama Leagues Club,

The Mecure, Jamberoo

Pub and other venues.

Thurs 8 Jan

Twilight Jazz & Blues

Concert, Hindmarsh

Park, 6-9pm

Kiama Bush Dance

Community Centre,

Hindmarsh Park,

7.30-10pm $5; $3 conc

9-11 Jan

K.I.S.S. Arts Festival

see p 8

Steve Smyth

Local singer songwriter,

Jamberoo Pub, 8pm

Tickets $15

Sat 10 Jan

Shimano Children’s

Fishing Comp

Kiama Harbour from 8am

Kiama Show Ball

Kiama Leisure Centre

Tickets $35 (BYO food

and drinks) from

www.kiamashow.com.au

Sun 11 Jan

Biber’s Basilica

Shaun Warden plays

the historical violin

Kiama Presbyterian

Church, 3-4pm, $25

Sat 17 Jan

The Wicked Dragons

Kiama Bowls Club from

6.30pm. Dinner and

show, $40

Backsliders

Blues’ legends at the

Milton Theatre

15-18 Jan

Illawarra Folk Festival

See right

17-18 Jan

Rotary’s Antiques, Art

& Retro Charity Fair

See p 4

Sat 17 Jan

Gerringong Market

In and around Gerringong

Town Hall

Sun 18 Jan

Kiama Seaside Markets

Kiama Harbour

Sat 24 Jan

Gerroa New Year

Market see right

Kiama Produce Market

Kiama Harbour

Sunday 25 Jan

Jamberoo Art & Craft

Market Reid Park

First Summer Outdoor

Movie: The Castle

Black Beach,

8 for 8.30pm start.

Gold coin donation

Monday 26 Jan

Australia Day activities

throughout the region -

more detail next edition

Three bands in the

Pub Beergarden

Jamberoo Pub 4-8pm $30

If you would like to list

an event in What’s On,

send the details to

emailthebugle@gmail or

phone 0412 415 101

Get in touch Let us know if there’s

an event you’re

organising. Just

email the details

to emailthebugle

@gmail.com

Blowhole Point: My Kind of Icon

by Graham Mackie

Kiama's history, centred on

the Blowhole Point

Now for sale at Kiama Library & Kiama Visitors Centre

or, for a signed copy, email grahammackie@bigpond.com

or post your order to 3A Braunton St, Bicton 6157

($30 posted).

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• Microsoft Office

• iTunes

• Photo management

• Cloud computing

• Apps

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(aka Fat Albert) can help you learn to get the

most out of your electronic devices

(Apple a specialty).

Available for sessions 8am-8pm.

t 4236 0638 or 0434 611 674

fatalbert@exemail.com.au

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$65 per hour

No solution,

no charge.

Opportunity

for artists A call has been put out

for artists, performing

arts, poets and stall-

holders to register

their interest in being

involved in Mercato

Arte, an art market

being held under the

stars at Scarborough in

late February.

For more details contact

info@fostered.com.au

t 9331 7532 or download

an application pack from

matthewgillettgallery.com

During January, the Arthur Boyd Estate at Bundanon will

be open on Saturdays as well as the usual Sundays.

If you haven’t been down to this special place yet, then

take the time to drive down to the Shoalhaven River one

weekend soon.

You can bring a picnic lunch, see Arthur Boyd’s Studio

and various exhibitions, or go bushwalking.

On Sunday 18 January you can contribute to the

Bundanon Big Draw - the spirit of the day is to encourage

as many people as possible to think about drawing and to

take a risk and have a go. Materials provided.

Details: Open 10.30-4pm on weekends in January.

$12 entry fee. www.bundanon.com.au

Illawarra Folk Festival set to be a pearler The Illawarra Folk Festival is celebrating

its 30th (Pearl) anniversary this year, so

they’ve decided to run with this theme

throughout the four days.

While there will be pearl-themed

events all weekend, Artistic Director

David De Santi expects the Pearl Ball

on the Friday night (16 Jan) to be one

of the festival highlights.

"We'd love people to dress up for the

night in anything connected with pearls

- from pirate gear to burlesque to

royalty," he says. "We'll have a costume

shop hiring all kinds of things to help

people get into the spirit of the event."

Entry to the Ball is included in the

festival ticket.

Fittingly, the milestone sees the big-

gest line-up of international, national

and local acts in the Festival’s history.

10,000 people are expected to attend

the Festival, to create a family friendly

village with superb music, a colourful

array of food stalls, craft stalls and a festival bar.

Camping sites are available.

Advance Season Passes are available until mid-

night on 14 Jan for $145 (full price $180).

Details: Go to

www.illawarrafolkfestival.com.au

to buy tickets (many options available)

and view the program.

Raising funds the old way Gerroa's New Year Market

is more along the lines of

good old country fete, set

up and run by volunteers of

the Neighbourhood Centre

to raise money to help

maintain the community

hall and provide outings for

older residents, as well as

make other projects.

Like all good fetes, there

will be craft, a great cake

stall (with lamingtons, of

course), a huge book stall,

raffles, trash 'n' treasure,

sausage sizzle, what are

tantalisingly billed as

‘legendary’ curry puffs,

Devonshire teas, face

painting and much more.

Details: Saturday 24 Jan,

8.30am–12.30pm, Gerroa

Neighbourhood Centre

37 Stafford St

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New year’s resolution to keep your mind active? Kiama U3A has announced an interesting program of

talks and courses for the coming term.

In addition to the always popular courses on Tai Chi,

Mah Jong and Tap Dancing, there will be an encore of

What's in the News, a lively debate on current events

(referee included), and Armchair Theatre. This term

introduces a number of new course topics including

The Scandinavians, an Introduction to Philosophy,

The Marlboroughs, and a three week course on Trails

of Evidence (Forensic Science).

This Term’s members only excursion will be to the

Fleet Air Arm Museum, Nowra (9 March) with lunch

at the Flight Deck Cafe followed by a visit to Meroogal,

a Sydney Living Museum historic home. Transport will

be by coach and there will be guided tours at both venues.

Term 1: Monday Talks Non-members are welcome to U3A’s Monday Talks

(2-4 pm) three times for a gold coin donation,

after which membership is required. Members may

attend for free.

Feb 2 The Front Comes Home: Broken Soldiers

of World War I Our speaker examines the

cases of veterans who returned psychologi-

cally damaged with a lack of appropriate

ongoing treatment.

Feb 9 Bundanon Trust: Arthur and Yvonne Boyd's

Extraordinary Gift of their Art Collection

Feb 16 Talking About Elder Abuse (TEA)

What is it, what are the signs?

Details: Enrolment Mon 26 Jan 2-4pm and

Tues 27 Jan 2-3 pm at North Kiama Neighbourhood

Centre, Meehan Drive, Kiama Downs.

Yearly membership is $25 and

courses only $10 for 8 weeks.

For more information contact Sharon Parker 4237 8422.

Eighteen students from Kiama High’s Class of 2014 achieved 40 of the prized Band 6 grades in their HSC

results. Conor McCammon was Dux with three of the top bands, just pipping Caitlin Hall who also had

three Band 6. Congratulations and best wishes to all of Kiama’s high school graduates who are embarking

on an exciting new stage of their lives.

From left: Patrick Wilcox (Band 6 Geography), Caitlin, Jessica Cook (Band 6 Hospitality) and Daniel Vicary,

who was given early entry to the Australian Institute of Music, help Conor relax a little.

Activities to commemorate

the 100th anniversary of

ANZAC continue to grow

locally, with the Jamberoo

Valley Ratepayers and

Residents Association

receiving the go-ahead from

Council to erect a Rotunda

in Reid Park.

Council has allocated

some funds for the project

and will assist in site prep-

aration, leaving the Assoc-

iation to raise the remaining

$36,000.

The Rotunda project has

the support of the Kiama

and Jamberoo RSL as well

as the CWA, the P&C, Red

Cross, Combined Churches,

Scouts and other groups.

Apart from its historical

significance, it will be

an asset for the community

by providing a facility for

use with events such as

Carols by Candlelight,

weddings, family gatherings

and artistic performances.

Grants have been applied

for, but as the plan is to

unveil the Rotunda on or

about ANZAC Day 2015,

the fundraising is off to a

flying start.

Financial contributions are

welcome at Elders Real

Estate, as are offers of assis-

tance with building the kit.

In addition, the first fund-raising event has been or-ganized: a Grand Golf and Croquet Rotunda Benefit Day. The golf will be a four person Ambrose event catering for golfers of all standards, including begin-ners. The Croquet Club will have members present to introduce the game to

beginners.

Details: Sun 1 Feb

Golf $30 from 8.30am

Croquet $25 from 9.30am

Refreshments available

Celebration of Kiama available soon With photography being such a

competitive business, it’s heartening

to see that mutual respect and a

love of our region can bring about

a collaboration to produce a beautiful

love child.

Well known photographers Peter

Izzard and Phil Winterton both call

Kiama ‘home’, and their new book

showcases what touches them about

our region.

It brings together their two different

perspectives and the best photographs

they have taken of the Kiama region

over a number of years.

As they say in the book, “Home is

not just an address, it’s a feeling.”

The book will be available for sale

for $50 at the end of the month at the

Kiama Visitors Centre, Council Cham-

bers and shops around town, and will

make a great souvenir or gift.

Council plans to give copies of the

book to new citizens on Australia Day.

You can also get the book directly

from the photographer’s websites.

Memorial rotunda for Jamberoo

This design has been selected

to the project, although it will

be raised off the ground for

better viewing. The colours

will match in with the planned

Council improvements to the

Jamberoo streetscape.

Photographers

Phil Winterton

and Peter Izzard

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Our Antiques Roadshow Just a reminder that you

can have your antique and

collectable goods valued

for $5 per item, or have

the Rotary Club sell your

items on commission,

at their annual Antiques,

Art & Retro Charity Fair.

The Fair is the primary

fund raising event of the

year for Rotary Kiama.

Those interested in sell-

ing their goods should

contact John Worstencroft

on 0419 002 655.

Details: Kiama Leisure

Centre. Sat 17 Jan, 10-5pm

Sun 18 Jan, 10-4 pm.

Entry fee $10 or

$7 concessions. Kids free.

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Enquiries: 0407 751 038

Free healthy habits coaching service just a phone call away You can give your New Year’s resolutions a kick-start

with the assistance of a free proven phone-based coaching

service.

The NSW Government’s ‘Get Healthy Service’ is a six

month program where healthy lifestyle information and

ongoing, personalised support is delivered to help people

make lasting lifestyle changes.

It encourages people to form healthy habits through

better food choices, increased vegetable and fruit con-

sumption and higher exercise levels, and has already

helped over 250,000 people in NSW make lasting im-

provements to their diet and fitness.

On average participants who have completed the pro-

gram lost 3.8kg in weight and 5.1cm off their waist and

some people even lost more than 30 kilograms.

Details: Call 1300 806 258 or

go to www.gethealthynsw.com.au

Share your films locally Council’s community-

driven website, Kiama

Connect, is up and running

to provide a platform for

collaboration and sharing

of video content amongst

the local community, and

promote the Kiama region

to the rest of the world.

The idea is that everyone

has a story to tell. Film

making is now a creative

medium that many can

easily utilise for this pur-

pose, through their phones

and other digital cameras.

To celebrate the launch,

you have the chance to

enter Kiama’s version of

Tropfest (Australia's most

prestigious short film

competition).

The theme for the com-

petition is ‘what you love

about Kiama’. Winners

will be screened at the

first of Council’s outdoor

summer movies, with an

ipad the major prize.

Details:

kiamaconnect.com.au

Competition entries close

Fri 16 Jan with winners

notified by the following

Friday.

Get them on their bikes If you’ve got someone

learning to ride a pushbike

in your family, then you’ll

be interested to hear a new

State Government funded

Learn to Ride Bike Track

has opened in Shoalhaven

Heads, just near the pool.

It provides a great place

gain confidence and skills.

The K.I.S.S. Arts Festival

is including a novel way

to help with the fund-

raising necessary to give

Kiama’s iconic Daisy,

the Decorated Dairy

Cow, a much needed

full fibreglass makeover.

While Kiama Council

is putting in $5000 to

achieve this, more is

needed to meet the full

cost.

Over the period of the

Festival, the organisers

have persuaded Daisy

to pose for ‘selfies’ for

the cost of a gold coin

donation.

Photos sent to

louisec@kiama.nsw.

gov.au will be printed

and joined together to

form a ‘Daisy chain’.

Help build a Daisy Chain

The first day of the Festival

saw a free workshop by

internationally renowned chalk

artist Ulla Taylor.

The result was a wonderful

serpent, slithering along the

foreshore. Much better than the

red bellied black snakes that

are so common at the moment.

If you love Daisy but selfies aren’t your thing, you can also leave donations at the Old Fire Station

Community Art Centre or donate online: www.gofundme.com/kiamacow

First taste of the K.I.S.S. Arts Festival

Tamara Campbell with the winners of Council’s Busking Competition

Right: The Festival’s directors Dave Evans and

Tamara Campbell start the Kiama Farmers’ Market

by ringing the bell in their own special style.

Mitre 10 sold The Bugle has heard from

impeccable sources that the

Simmons brothers’ prime

Terralong St Kiama Supply

Co (Mitre 10) property has

been sold to Kiama Council.

The property adjoins the

land Council already owns,

which has long been earmark-

ed for development as a shop-

ping centre. This purchase

adds access to the main street.

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At the Made in Kiama Night Market December’s market was a big hit

as shoppers vied to buy great

locally crafted items for Christmas

(and themselves). The number

of stallholders shows how many

talented people are basing their

businesses in our area.

At the Christmas Parade By all accounts, 2014 was the biggest turnout ever

for Gerringong Sunrise Rotary’s Christmas Parade.

There were a record number of floats and big

crowds, which stayed on for a great market day.

They thank the businesses and organisations that

helped to make it such a success.

The Gerringong Rural Fire Service always leads the Parade

The Kiama Pipe Band was one of four pipe bands playing

Residents of Mayflower enjoyed stepping out with

the good sorts from Gerringong Lions Rugby League Club

The crowds enjoyed a perfect market day. Gerringong Rotary

runs the market all year to raise funds for their projects.

At the special Christmas Kiama Farmers’ Market Santa arrived by boat, delighting the large

number of children lining Black Beach while their

parents enjoyed buying local food for Christmas.

Santa even saved the day for a group of children,

who had missed him at another venue in town,

by going to visit them in Hindmarsh Park.

He had such a good time he turned up the follow-

ing week, that time escorted around the Market

by an elf in a golf cart. Only in Kiama!

The Bell to open the Market was rung by Holly and Alex Rudd

Grant and Deborah Clark from Clark Oysters

Right: Congratulations and thanks to the initiators and

organisers of the Made in Kiama Market concept,

Kelly Bennett and Fiona Griffin-Rudder

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The Bugle Crossword

Margot Law is our regular crossword compiler.

Last issue’s solution Cut out the middlemen and buy direct from farmers and makers

Every Wednesday 3 - 6pm, Kiama Harbour

www.facebook.com/kiamafarmersmarket

Across

1. Employer (4)

3. Purple summer flowering

tree (9)

8. Sail boat (5)

9. A plant with fiddleheads

and fronds (4)

10. Serpent poison (5, 5)

13. Scratching (7)

14. Russian king (4)

15. Town on the Southern

Coast of NSW; Adam and

Eve’s garden (4)

16. To bulge downwards

under pressure (3)

18. Begin (2)

20. People from the Nether-

lands (5)

22. To overview, measure or

describe something (6)

25. Humpbacked ox (5)

26. Roman Emperor who

started a fire which

destroyed most of Rome (4)

29. Electricity derived from

water (5, 5)

31. To bring about, pro-

duce, or cause (6)

33. Call to attract attention

(2)

35. Loom worker (6)

36. People of a seven island

Mediterranean Country (7)

37. South American flight-

less bird (4)

38. Focus of an earthquake

(9)

39. Reduce to finite parti-

cles (7)

Down

1. Bewildered and confused

(7)

2. Making everything in time

(7)

3. Hex (4)

4. Forming into a crust or

compact mass (6)

5. Wild party (4)

6. There are sixty billion in

a minute (10)

7. Take affection to (6)

11. Classic Queen song –

“Bohemian ______” (8)

12. An extended perform-

ance after audience

applause (6)

17. To pledge money as

part of an agreement (9)

19. Away from or not in (3)

21. A framework containing

basic assumptions (8)

23. A disrespectful laugh (7)

24. Unfixable (9)

27. A disease with no cure

that affects the legs;

a vaccine was produced in

the 1950s (5)

28. Pig meat (4)

29. Robbery or hold up (5)

30. Birds with bills (5)

32. Twenty eight (6)

34. Purple and yellow

flower (4)

35. Smell on the wind (4)

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Queenstown, Tahuna in Māori, some-

times gets labelled as "too touristy"

and there are certainly a lot of world

travellers enjoying the souvenir shops

as well as the skiing and a mind boggl-

ing array of adventure sports.

And then there is the food. We side-

stepped the huge crowds queuing to

buy a 'best in the world' burger at

Fergburger and popped into the bakers

next door for a jaw dropping selection

of savouries and cakes, yum! We had a

great evening meal at Fishbone (guess

what it specialises in?) and possibly

the biggest slice of chocolate cake

we've ever seen at the Bathouse Cafe

looking out over the lake.

While walking off the cake round

the harbour area, we stopped to

read David Eggleton's Wall Poem

(Waipounamu) sandblasted into 100

metres of the jetty wall by sculptor

Stuart Griffiths.

Queenstown's Lake Wakatipu is

framed by the stunning Remarkables

Range and Mt Earnslaw, which reaches

over 2,800 metres. The lake rises and

falls about 10cm every half hour due,

in Māori legend, to the heartbeat of

the giant Matau.

The TSS Earnslaw, shown in the

picture, was built in Dunedin for NZ

Railways transported to the lake,

assembled and launched in 1912.

It was almost scrapped in 1968 before

being rescued and lovingly refurbish-

ed. We took the steamer up the lake

and had a great day. You can watch

the stokers shovelling a tonne of coal

per hour at full steam ahead, instru-

ments clanging, steam rising, engines

whiring - excellent.

Oh, and the views across the lake

to numerous valleys and snow-capped

mountains are simply, Wow!

The rugged remote beauty of NZ

is all its said to be, but don't skip

Queenstown, we'd love to come back.

Ros & Trevor Brooks

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