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#3 DAISY • Wednesday 10 May – Wednesday 24 May

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for 74 years in this
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place – imagine that.

Deadline for BERYL #4 Byron to Braidwood to Letters
FRIDAY 19 MAY • 5PM Bundaberg What a fantastic detour
from the doom and gloom
for listings & events I live in Braidwood but this So so so good! Wish you could
publication from Bundaberg do it weekly.
Wednesday 24 May – Wednesday 7 June has plonked itself on my FB
Sofia Childs
[email protected] Sarah timeline, don’t know how, Innes Park
bundyecho.com.au don’t know when, but I think
facebook.com/bundyecho The nice one it’s sorta good. There’s lots Cadz Cafe
Sarah: 0408 414 202 Fab-est cafe on Fairymead
Mandy: 0417 659 635 of typos but because of the Road. I am a tradie and
Landline: 4152 1086 great content, that can be trainie and I frequent this cafe
forgiven. I am also a bit everyday. There is always a
Bundy Echo is published the nice one shocked that Bundaberg is queue BUT NOW we can read
fortnightly and distributed heading towards being the the ‘Bundy Echo’ all the way
on Wednesday. See back Mandy new Byron (umm, OMG, I to the steak burger.
page for distributers. the wicked mad aunty just remembered – Mandy,
Michael Blair
**All information provided is the editor of this thing, is my (they call me the Cane
correct at the time of printing, ex-wife). Good god I hope
however we recommend checking Train Man)
with the venue as last minute she can afford a proof-reader No other letters you lazy
changes can happen (and we also soon. bastards but we have heaps
make mistakes – not too many we of comments on Facey.
hope)** Matt Thane
Braidwood, NSW

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Bundy Echo is still an infant and as her mother It was a dark gloomy day. Narney was thinking
I have to indulge a little more, editorial wise. ffs I have to buy ANOTHER fecking iPhone We will always love
This issue ‘Daisy’ is dedicated to my mum (she has a $55 Telstra cheapie). Anyway in Ruth, our first born.
and Sarah’s ‘Narney’ (Narney Banan-ey). a nutshell . . . Sarah was not going to let
Isn’t it great how kids decide what to call the this beat her, she ended up crawling around We also love that
grandparents? Tantitha – ringing the damn thing and at 10pm she stars in our
Daisy is Narney’s mother. Narney reckons she that night SHE FOUND IT under a bush! Fancy logo, we call her
had the best mother in the world but not one that! the ‘Swirly Girly’
woman on the planet is a better mother than I have lovely memories of Daisy, my
mine. grandmother. She was kind and caring and Sarah, my beautiful talented partner of
My family have the latest Apple devices, legit had the bestest listening ears. I really really ‘Bundy Echo’, who is also a poet, left me for
software and a tonne of love all saved up on wanted to call my daughter Daisy but with the about 73 hours of indulgence to make sure
Narney’s pension. She sent her grandson, my surname ‘Thane’ I would have been setting her friend Holly had the best wedding ever.
Harry, off to Africa (for the third time) with her up with a lifetime of teasing, if you get Caleb, her man (pictured far left) looks quite
a brand new lappy, iPhone and drone. Dad my drift. She is much more of Hayley anyway relaxed after a six hour journey home from
(‘Pop-Off’ to the grandkids) is still a techno (Hayley Mills was the best in those St Trinian the mine and had to go scrambling around
wizz at 80 years old. Although, last week on movies – I wonder how many of our readers for Pop-Off’s phone in a field on the way and
the way to the club he said to Narney, “did know that?). then go organising a suit for the wedding the
you just see that big black mouse run across So to conclude . . . Narney is the best (she next day. Sarah is second on the right. Thank
the bonnet?”. It was his iPhone 7 which he has refused to be in a photograph ever since you Caleb, that was epic
realised about two kilometres later. Not a I have known her hahha.). Sarah and I had
mouse. this big discussion about surprising her with
Sarah works full time as well as organising this Daisy edition and fmd Pop-Off saw the
this beast. I rang her after I went to try print out and yelled, ‘number three is all about
and find it. The ‘Find my Phone’ app was Daisy!’ I poked out his left eye.
impossible to assess on Pop-Off’s laptop Families are as weird AF. But what would we
because his passwords are listed in an do without them?
encyclopedia-sized book, each one about 100 More cold beers please Mumma. Mandy X
characters long.

TPalkuentghee WEDNESDAY: 26 April, 3 / 10 May

1.15pm : Disability Social Group

AFTER SCHOOL : 3.30-4.30PM : $5
RECYCLED CRAFTS

THURSDAY: 27 April, 4 May

• 9.30am : Craft Group

BYO Craft or $5 for lesson

• 1.00pm : Drawing Class $5
• 5.30pm : Bible Study

Non-denominational
AFTER SCHOOL : 3.30-4.30PM : $5
CALLIGRAPHY

We invite you to visit our fantastic coffee FRIDAY: 28 April
shop for light lunches, excellent brews, • 9.30am : Social Sign Language
outstanding service and a specialty • 1.00pm : Photography
pancake menu. Enjoy the upbeat energy
or take a class or two. We have a BYO Camera
meeting room with the best hire rates in AFTER SCHOOL : 3.30-4.30PM : $5
Bundaberg.We cater for all events. PHOTOGRAPHY

SUCH A COOL PLACE TO PLUNGE MONDAY: 1 / 8 May
I have never been to a place with such a cool community feel!
Love the wall art and inspirational quotes. Love how you can • 9.30am : Writer’s Group
choose your own cup and that the tea and coffee are served
in plungers. There is a great little area for smaller children and AFTER SCHOOL : 3.30-4.30PM : $5
comfy lounges as well as cool tables and chairs. The staff are ARTS & CRAFTS
super friendly and they cater well for the local home schooling
community. Take the Plunge Café is full of feeling. TUESDAY: 2 / 9 May

~Trip Advisor Review: newlifeontheroad Feb 2017 • 9.00am : Spanish Lesson $5
• 9.30am : Craft Lessons $5

AFTER SCHOOL : 3.30-4.30PM : $5
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gypsy lane BUNDY ECHO ASKS SOME VERY
VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO
SHONDELLE AND JAY

This Bundaberg-based duo and experience into their Who loves you? MORE guitars.
has been performing for performances, and never fail Anyone who can feel the Did you wake up one day
almost a year in the Wide to please their audience of groove and enjoy the music. and think I wanna be a star
Bay. Shondelle McKenzie all ages.’ ~ courtesy Rolling What is your musical or did someone influence
and Jay Furnish answered Stone magazine genre? you to be the star that you
some very very important We would like to know how We play anything from the are? What about Jay ?
questions that the very this duo was formed 60s to now. But Jay has a Stevie Nicks regularly
very important Bundy Echo Jay was in a band that tendancy to make up some appeared in my dreams when
asked. played where I was working. songs along the way which is I was a child. I love her style
So tell us some back­ Didn’t take me long before I always entertaining. and voice. Chrissy Amphlett
ground stuff. Shondelle is bombarded them. I became What’s been your most and The Divinyls also hovered
the talkative one. part of that band but Jay and interesting gig? around my shoulders . . . big
We have years of experience I had a great sound. And then We would have to say that voices, big attitudes, big role
between us. I grew up in our duo was formed! each gig is different. People models. Jay’s main influences
Sydney and have ten million Where have you played, love to interact in the live came from: Eric Johnson,
gigs up my long sleeves . . . where can we hear you? show. We have had Jay table Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton,
(from solo, duo to bands for Our very first gig was at surf while playing the guitar and Jeff Beck. It was Jimi
the past 20 years). Jay has Oodies, we played to a packed to Shondelle and her groupie Hendrix who inspired Jay to
been playing for nine years in cafe! We have also played at back-up singers! pick up the guitar and learn
various guises, similar to me. The Brewhouse, Riverfeast, How often do you get to play. He was watching
Share Gypsy Lane’s fav Bucca Hotel, The Waves, together? ‘Woodstock’ and immediately
review with us Moore Park Beach Tavern, We try to get together once a dashed out to buy a guitar!
‘By melding the ‘jaw Grand Hotel, Spotted Dog, week when the planets align, If you could be any animal
dropping’ skills and amazing The Met, Globe Hotel, Moore or when it is a full moon. in the world, what animal
ability of Jay on his guitar, Park Beach Bowls Club, What are you doing now? would you be and why?
and the beautiful tones, Old Bundy Tavern, TwoCan Adding new songs to our ever Shondelle – to be free as
versatility and power of Yard Bar and Restaurant, growing list and Jay is always a bird and maybe poop on
Shondelle’s voice, “Gypsy Miners Arms Torbanlea, The looking for new ideas when people sometimes lol
Lane” has shown their ability Met, Cellblock Backpackers, he is not slinking off to look Jay - Well I just don’t know?
to compact a vast array Rosedale Hotel and heaps of for more equipment meaning Let me think about it and I
of songs, styles, influence private functions. will get back to you.

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heart of … well … a bogan. seen from outer space. The
To her utter consternation, encounter was mortifiying,
I flicked over to the footy. and I will carry the sound of
A stony silence engulfed Nola’s sniggering with me to
JOHN CAMPBELL us as Nola sat seething the grave. How did Kurtz put
Hits the silver throughout. I could feel rays it? “The horror.”
pillow when of resentment emanating
Yesterday, desperate to
PORTNOY, SWEET­ from her head, while Sweet have her out of the house so
PEA AND nit­ Pea cowered at her feet, that I could just tool around
nervously watching for any
picking cousin sign of Portnoy’s return. doing nothing in particular,
do his head IN. I gleefully offered her the
Neither of us wished to use of my Commodore. She
recall her previous visit when
It takes a lot to upset my your third?”), decided that it was time to hit the sack. wanted to explore the area
cat Portnoy. But he’s got my penne arrabbiata was and do some shopping (Nola
the Edgar Britts big time too spicy (“chilli and pasta I have always been one only puts lactose-free milk on
at the moment – and it’s don’t really go, do they”) and to sleep au naturel. It’s the gluten-free chaff that she
not because he has just was not at all impressed more comfortable than eats at breakfast and rejects
discovered that he’s the only by the chipped salad bowl wearing pyjamas, especially tea-bags outright - “you do
cat in the known universe to (“I’ve never been one to shop in summer, and is vaguely have a pot, I assume?”), so
have not had his photograph at Target, myself”). When reminiscent of a time when as long as she didn’t prang
posted on Facebook. Nor is Portnoy, as is his wont, leapt I actually had what might the thing I was more than
onto the table to scout for loosely be referred to as a
Mi Casa, Tu Casa – No Way!!!
it because I was unable to happy to see her drive off in
buy his preferred litter at the crumbs of Parmesan, Nola sex life. When Nola was last it. Portnoy was delighted, too,
supermarket last week – he curtly shoo’d him off. Portnoy under my roof, I woke up in when he saw that Sweet Pea
forgave me for that offence a glared at her in icy indignation the wee small hours with would accompany her.
couple of days ago. before skulking away with the dry horrors after over-
murder in his heart. A couple indulging in the Valpolicella. That evening, needing to
No, Portnoy’s nose is out of minutes later Sweet Pea Forgetting that she was in the collect an Indian takeaway, I
of joint owing to the presence ran screeching into the room spare bedroom, I headed for was forced to double up like
in his domain of my cousin and bound into Nola’s lap, the kitchen in my birthday a contortionist to fit behind
Nola and her white poodle, trembling pitiably. suit at precisely the same the wheel. She’d adjusted
Sweet Pea, who appears to moment that Nola, in her the seat to accommodate her
have made his way through Adjourning to watch TV, Peter Alexander PJs, decided stubby legs, tuned the radio
life without a brain. Portnoy she regally took control of the she needed to visit the loo. to a station playing some
has taken to swiping him remote and tuned in to the I am able to negotiate the hysterical soprano shrieking
on the snout whenever the ABC (“I do love these British nooks and crannies of my something in Italian and left
whim takes him, meaning period dramas, don’t you?”). house like a blind mouse, so barely enough fuel in the tank
that the peace and quiet of At which point I had to put didn’t bother to turn on the for me to get to the curry
my day, already shattered by my foot down. Nola has never light. Nola did. The sudden shop. And as I spluttered into
Nola’s endless phone calls, fully grasped that beneath my glare would have been the nearest servo I became
is also punctuated by the bogan exterior there beats the aware of an aroma … it’s not
mutt’s shrilly yelps. Which the caveman crud smell with
results in Nola swooping from which I am so familiar … is
the clouds to scold the fast it lavender? Has she sprayed
disappearing Portnoy and the Commie? How long will
harangue me for not keeping it last?
my homicidal cat under
control. The last straw came
this morning. Nola had
She turned up on my put the butter in the fridge
doorstep last Friday, with overnight, so my raisin toast
Sweet Pea under her arm was smashed to bits when
and a bag (she called it a I attempted to spread it,
‘valise’) that weighed a but much worse - the quick
ton in the boot of her taxi. crossword was already
After booking myself in for a completed! All that she’d
remedial massage to repair missed was one lousy word.
the damage done to my back Five down - ‘giving, disposed
when lifting the ‘valise’, I to give.’ Ten letters. I think
snuck into the kitchen and I’ve got it … Hospitable.
hurriedly decanted some
boxed cab-merlot into an Don’t understand the
empty Valpolicella bottle that I title of this page ?
keep for such gala occasions. Take the Plunge

Nola then proceeded to Coffee Shop has weekly
count how many glasses I Spanish classes for just
drank over dinner (“is that
$5 a pop.
6 Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017

Phil and Chris Coad bring a load of music to Bundy
‘Bundy Echo’ loves two kinds of music –
country AND western.’

The joke is as old as the hills, The Coads have a long history 28 May, and if you are not amazing as the big names.
but for a lot of us it is true. that goes back way before there you will be kicking It is about showcasing quality
Ever since the great Hank city trendoids decided to yourself later when you performers, and the Coads
Williams wondered ‘did you jump on the country music hear everybody tell you how have once again put together
ever see a robin weep?’, the bandwagon. Phil and his fantastic it was. a bill of established and rising
truth and earthy poetry that brothers Peter and Trevor This will be one Bundy’s most stars in Australian country
is at the heart of all country released their album, ‘In Ford exciting weekends on the music, but it is also about
music has been irresistible. Country’, as far back as 1979. musical calendar – so bring integrity and belief in what
When you get to hear it live It turned out to be an album all your camping gear – it the songs are all about.
it’s even better. It connects that opened up the door for goes on for a week (the big For further information:
you to all the real things them as a touring family. names are on the weekend) Country Muster Festival
that you feel, and it cuts As musos constantly but the stage is open for all 0419 603 371
through the wankery that exploring and expanding on and sometimes unexpected
makes up so much of today’s the musical tradition that quirky acts can be just as
contemporary music scene. has inspired them, the Coads
Bundaberg is luckier than have been forerunners in the
most regional centres growth of country music in
because we are the home Australia – just as Bob Dylan
town of Phil and Chris Coad’s had done earlier at Newport,
Country Music Muster. The the Coads astounded
loving couple has put together Tamworth conservatives
another multi-talented show when they plugged-in their
for this month – which means instruments and performed
that you don’t have to go to an amplified set, the impact
Tamworth in the sweltering of which, on an unsuspecting
heat of January and be audience, is still spoken about
trampled by those once-a- today in reverential tones.
year dress-up fans to get a Their concerts will be on at
decent, down home dose of the Wyper Park Scout Camp
true-blue live country music. from Friday 26 to Sunday

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Wednesday 10 May ■ WOODGATE CLUB
7.30PM JANE & BRUCE
■ OLD BUNDY TAVERN
7PM TRIVIA NIGHT ■ ISIS CLUB, CHILDERS
6.30PM BAZANOVA
■ QUEENSLANDER
HOTEL 9.30PM Saturday 13 May
KARAOKE
■ THE BREWHOUSE 6PM
■ METRO HOTEL 7PM TODD KEIGHTLEY
MUSIC BINGO
■ GRAND HOTEL 8PM
■ BUNDABERG RETRO NIGHT 80’s &
SERVICES CLUB 6PM 90’s WITH DJ LEE
LEAH BRIGGS
■ CENTRAL HOTEL
■ WAVES SPORTS 9.30PM TODD
CLUB 9.30AM THE KEIGHTLEY +
ELDERINES RESIDENTS

■ BUCCA HOTEL 7.30PM ■ QUEENSLANDER
POOL NIGHT HOTEL 9.30PM
KARAOKE
Thursday 11 May
■ METRO HOTEL 9PM
■ GRAND HOTEL ■ QUEENSLANDER ■ BROTHERS STEFF MAREE
6PM FUN POOL HOTEL 9.30PM SPORTS CLUB 8PM
COMPETITION KARAOKE RETRONOMES ■ GLOBE HOTEL 7.30PM
SMOOTH VELVET
■ METRO HOTEL 7PM ■ METRO HOTEL 8PM ■ EAST BUNDABERG
TRIVIA BRENDAN EGAN SPORTS CLUB 6PM ■ EAST END HOTEL 12-
NEIL 1PM RAFFLES
■ EAST END HOTEL ■ GLOBE HOTEL 7.30PM
5-8PM RAFFLES KARAOKE ■ BURNETT BOWLS ■ SUGARLAND TAVERN
CLUB 6.30PM SHELLY 7PM MISS HAWAIIAN
■ BUNDABERG ■ EAST END HOTEL WATERS TROPIC
SERVICES CLUB 6PM 5-6.30PM RAFFLES
LEAH BRIGGS 6-8PM JAG THE JOKER ■ BARGARA BEACH ■ SPOTTED DOG TAVERN
HOTEL 4PM FREE BBQ 7.30PM MARK DEVINEY
■ WAVES SPORTS ■ SUGARLAND TAVERN + BIKINI WAITRESS
CLUB 6.30PM MARK 8PM 8 BALL AITKEN 5PM RAFFLES ■ ROCK BAR & GRILL
LAVENDER & KATHRYN 6.30PM JAEL
COAD ■ SPOTTED DOG TAVERN ■ SANDHILLS SPORTS
7.30PM DEAN SAUER CLUB 6PM GARRY ■ BUNDABERG
■ BROTHERS SPORTS CARLON SERVICES CLUB 6PM
CLUB 6.30PM ■ RIVERFEAST 5.30PM LEAH BRIGGS
RETRONOMES MARK LAVENDER ■ LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL,
BURNETT HEADS 6PM ■ WAVES SPORTS
■ BURNETT BOWLS CLUB ■ BUNDABERG DERECK F SMITH CLUB 8PM ROMEO’S
7.30PM ROCK ‘N’ROLL SERVICES CLUB 6PM APPRENTICE
CLASSES $3 LEAH BRIGGS ■ AT THE VENUE,
ALLOWAY 6PM DANCE ■ BROTHERS SPORTS
■ BARGARA BEACH ■ WAVES SPORTS NIGHT CLUB 8PM ALEX & A2Z
HOTEL 4PM FREE CLUB 5PM PETER
SAUSAGE SIZZLE 4-7PM KNIGHT 8PM ROMEO’S ■ EAST BUNDABERG
BIKINI WAITRESS 7PM APPRENTICE SPORTS CLUB 6PM
POOL COMP DEBBIE ROBERTSON

Friday 12 May ■ BARGARA BEACH
HOTEL 1-4PM BIKINI
■ THE BREWHOUSE 6PM DRINK WAITRESS 4PM
TODD KEIGHTLEY FREE BBQ 7PM APL
POKER
■ OLD BUNDY TAVERN
4.30PM MATT BLACK ■ SANDHILLS SPORTS
CLUB 6PM GARRY
■ CENTRAL HOTEL CARLON
9.30PM TODD
KEIGHTLEY + RESIDENTS ■ BLUE WATER SPORTS
CLUB, BURNETT
8 Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017 HEADS 6.30PM
KARAOKE WITH
KATRINA NORRIS

■ AT THE VENUE, ALLOWAY ■ EAST BUNDABERG ■ SOUTH KOLAN HOTEL We can’t
6PM LIVE LOCAL MUSIC SPORTS CLUB 12PM 12PM IAN FITZPATRICK promote your
DEBBIE ROBERTSON ‘thing’ if you
■ HIGHWAY HOTEL, GIN ■ HIGHWAY HOTEL, GIN don’t tell us
GIN 8PM ABBY SKYE & ■ BARGARA BEACH GIN 2PM JAM SESH:
BATMAN HOTEL 10-2PM FREE ALL MUSOS WELCOME about your
POOL & JUKE BOX ‘thing’.
■ WOODGATE CLUB 6PM ■ WOODGATE CLUB
NEIL WENCK ■ RICKS @ BARGARA 12PM BRUCE & JANE bundyecho
2:30PM SUNDAY SESH: @gmail.com
Sunday 14 May VARIOUS YOUNG ■ ISIS CLUB, CHILDERS
LOCAL ARTISTS 11.30AM MATTHEW
■ GRUNSKE’S 12PM MUNRO
TODD KEIGHTLEY ■ C5IVE RESTAURANT,
BARGARA 2PM MATT Monday 15 May
■ BUNDABERG FASSO
SERVICES CLUB 12PM NOTHING, STAY ON THE
LEAH BRIGGS ■ LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL, COUCH ??
BURNETT HEADS 12PM
■ WAVES SPORTS MARK DEVINEY Tuesday 16 May
CLUB 4.30PM SAM
MADDISON ■ BLUE WATER SPORTS ■ JANDAS 6-7PM LATINO
CLUB, BURNETT NIGHT: SALSA &
■ BROTHERS SPORTS HEADS 4.30PM MICK SPANISH CLASS
CLUB 6.30PM ALEX BAZLEY
PEDEN ■ BARGARA BEACH
■ BUCCA HOTEL 1PM HOTEL 7PM TRIVIA +
BASANOVA FT: KING NPL POKER
ELVIS & BUDDY HOLLY

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Wednesday 17 May KARAOKE ■ WOODGATE CLUB ■ ROCK BAR & GRILL
■ METRO HOTEL 8PM 7.30PM BRUCE & JANE 6.30PM BRENDAN
■ OLD BUNDY TAVERN EGAN
7PM TRIVIA NIGHT STEFF MAREE Saturday 20 May
■ GLOBE HOTEL 7.30PM ■ BUNDABERG
■ QUEENSLANDER ■ THE BREWHOUSE 6PM SERVICES CLUB 6PM
HOTEL 9.30PM ABBY SKYE BEVAN SPIERS BAZ TONES
KARAOKE ■ EAST END HOTEL
■ GRAND HOTEL 8PM ■ WAVES SPORTS CLUB
■ METRO HOTEL 7PM 5-6.30PM RAFFLES RETRO NIGHT 80’s & 8PM OLD MATE
MUSIC BINGO 6-8PM JAG THE JOKER 90’s WITH DJ LEE
■ SUGARLAND TAVERN ■ BROTHERS SPORTS
■ BUNDABERG 8PM BRENDAN EGAN ■ CENTRAL HOTEL CLUB 8PM SONIC
SERVICES CLUB 6PM ■ SPOTTED DOG 9.30PM RESIDENTS EMPIRE
BAZ TONES TAVERN 7.30PM TODD
KEIGHTLEY ■ QUEENSLANDER ■ EAST BUNDABERG
■ BUCCA HOTEL 7.30PM ■ RIVERFEAST 5.30PM HOTEL 9.30PM SPORTS CLUB 6PM
POOL NIGHT DAN HORNE KARAOKE SHELLY WATERS
■ BUNDABERG
Thursday 18 May SERVICES CLUB 6PM ■ METRO HOTEL 9PM ■ BARGARA BEACH
BAZ TONES GRANT DAVID HOTEL 1-4PM BIKINI
■ GRAND HOTEL ■ WAVES SPORTS CLUB DRINK WAITRESS 4PM
6PM FUN POOL 5PM SG’S 8PM BLACK ■ GLOBE HOTEL 7.30PM FREE BBQ 7PM APL
COMPETITION SNOW BAND ABBY SKYE & BATMAN POKER
■ BROTHERS SPORTS
■ METRO HOTEL 7PM CLUB 8PM SONIC ■ EAST END HOTEL 12- ■ SANDHILLS SPORTS
TRIVIA EMPIRE 1PM RAFFLES CLUB 6PM TONY ‘THE
■ EAST BUNDABERG GOOSE’ SPRUCE
■ EAST END HOTEL SPORTS CLUB 6PM ■ SUGARLAND TAVERN
5-8PM RAFFLES ANNE ETHERTON 8PM WAL NEILSON ■ AT THE VENUE,
■ BURNETT CLUB 6PM ALLOWAY 6PM LIVE
■ WAVES SPORTS CLUB POP UP RESTURANT: ■ SPOTTED DOG LOCAL MUSIC
6.30PM PETE & EVIE $50PP, CALL DARRYL TAVERN 7.30PM TODD
SHOW TO BOOK YOUR SPOT KEIGHTLEY ■ WOODGATE CLUB 6PM
4152 5073 GARY CARLON
■ BROTHERS SPORTS ■ BURNETT BOWLS
CLUB 6.30PM CLUB 6.30PM TREVOR MATT BLACK ROCKS THE HOUSE EVERYWHERE
BARLIGHT GYTON CATCH HIM AT SOUTH KOLAN PUB • 19 MAY
■ BARGARA BEACH
■ BURNETT BOWLS CLUB HOTEL 4PM FREE BBQ
7.30PM ROCK ‘N’ROLL + BIKINI WAITRESS
CLASSES $3 5PM RAFFLES
■ SANDHILLS SPORTS
■ BARGARA BEACH CLUB 6PM TONY ‘THE
HOTEL 4PM FREE GOOSE’ SPRUCE
SAUSAGE SIZZLE ■ LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL,
4-7PM BIKINI BURNETT HEADS 12PM
WAITRESS 7PM POOL MARK DEVINEY
COMP ■ BLUE WATER SPORTS
CLUB, BURNETT
Friday 19 May HEADS 6.30PM PETER
O’BRIEN
■ THE BREWHOUSE 6PM ■ AT THE VENUE,
HAYLOX ALLOWAY 6PM DANCE
NIGHT
■ OLD BUNDY TAVERN ■ SOUTH KOLAN HOTEL
4.30PM DREW 7PM MATT BLACK
FERGUSON

■ CENTRAL HOTEL
9.30PM RESIDENT DJ’S

■ QUEENSLANDER
HOTEL 9.30PM

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Sunday 21 May HEADS 4.30PM DEBBIE HMewuyyaisotBbnosuguunsrmgnnas.lddaott.yyiero.l.eyclrl?cyouhmsion@all
ROBERTSON
■ RIVERFEAST 12-6PM ■ BUCCA HOTEL 6PM
VINTAGE FESTIVAL FT TODD KEIGHTLEY
TWANG ■ WOODGATE CLUB
12PM BRUCE & JANE
■ GRUNSKE’S 12PM
BEVAN SPEIRS Monday 22 May

■ BUNDABERG NO LISTINGS - STAY ON
SERVICES CLUB PM THE COUCH
BAZ TONES
Tuesday 23 May
■ WAVES SPORTS CLUB
4.30PM JOHN ALLEN ■ JANDAS 6-7PM LATINO
NIGHT: SALSA &
■ BROTHERS SPORTS SPANISH CLASS $12
CLUB 6.30PM ALEX SINGLES $20 COUPLES
PEDEN
■ BARGARA BEACH
■ EAST BUNDABERG HOTEL 7PM TRIVIA +
SPORTS CLUB 12PM NPL POKER
SHELLY WATERS
Wednesday 24 May
■ BARGARA BEACH
HOTEL 10-2PM FREE ■ WAVES SPORTS CLUB
POOL & JUKE BOX 9.30AM VANESSA
SANGER
■ RICKS @ BARGARA
2:30PM SUNDAY SESH: ■ BUNDABERG
VARIOUS YOUNG SERVICES CLUB 6PM
LOCAL ARTISTS GARRY CARLON

■ C5IVE RESTAURANT,
BARGARA 2PM MARK
LAVENDER

■ BLUE WATER SPORTS
CLUB, BURNETT

Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017 11

Who are we? BundyAnswer:Seephotos

If you love Volkswagens, old groups in the Wide Bay area. We
or new, then one group you need want to stay true to what Kombi
to be involved with is the ‘Bundy life is all about. We don’t want
Volks’. Born out of a passion for to be organised or structured
the V-Dub, a few of us insaners – we are the ‘free range VW
(you have to be one to own one) Bundy people’, with neither
formed the group in June 2015. treasurer nor committee. Our
The number of enthusiasts group thrives on fun and casual-
who joined instantly was quite ness but we also love to catch
incredible. up with other ‘insaners’ from
Hervey Bay, Gladstone, Mackay
All of our VW owners and/or and Brisbane.
lovers of them, whether on the
road or as a resto in the shed, It’s always a spectacle
want to share their knowledge, when the ‘Bundy Volks’ cruise
experiences (lots of fire stories and tool around Bundaberg.
haha) and help each other. But Sometimes we have up to 25 or
the best thing is the cruise that more vehicles – including early
we try to have once a month. Beetles, Kombis and Beach
It’s so much fun. Buggies as well as later Golfs
and Amaroks. Even if you don’t
Designed by Ferdinand own or drive one but have a
Porsche to be a viable passion for them, feel free to
and affordable form of come along and meet like-
transportation for the masses, minded (crazy) people.
Volkswagen (founded in 1937)
engineered the Beetle and Being a social group, it’s all
promoted it as the ‘People’s free. Volkswagens + beautiful
Car’. Ironically, our vintage cars Bundaberg = fun on a stick. We
are fetching big prices right cruise everywhere. So far we’ve
now. graced the areas of Childers,
Apple Tree Creek, Moore Park
When out cruising, we are Beach, Innes Park, Bucca, Elliott
constantly amazed by how Heads and Bargara, to name
people from every demographic just a few. With an abundance of
take a moment of their time breathtaking local landscapes,
(often it can go on for hours) to it makes for easy driving before
recall their fond memories of all parking and enjoying a sausage
models of Volkswagens. sizzle and chatting all things
VW, and some not so VW, among
But back to us . . . we have friends. GOLD.
900 followers on Facebook,
although our relaxed approach
sometimes shocks other VW

12 Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017

Volks Our next event
We are organising a VW event though. We also enjoy a
called the ‘Benaraby Bug beautiful natural lovely setting
2017’ on June 23/24/25 at with plenty of room to camp
the Benaraby Raceway just and soak in the atmosphere.
south of Gladstone. The aim
is to have an event for us Gates open at noon on
Queenslanders in our region. Friday 23. There will be music
With a drag strip capable of in the evenings – ‘Chill Out’ on
1/4 and 1/8 racing it will give Friday night and a ‘Retro Party’
Volkswagen owners a chance to on Saturday after the drag
experience the thrill. racing. Show ‘n’ Shine will be
on Sunday. It’s going to be a
For the more competitive, full on fun filled weekend.
there are several different
categories to compete. We’ll resume our local
V-Dubbers are travelling from cruises in July.
as far as Cairns. It’s going
to be a spectacle. We have For more information
‘Fillmore’ – the fastest Split check out the Benaraby
Kombi in Australia – coming. Bug In 2017 or Bundy Volks
Petrol heads will appreciate Facebook page.
just how fast this Kombi is as
it hurtles down the 1/4 mile A bit shout out to Shane Chung who,
in under 9 seconds. Compare inbetween a full time job, family
that to the 70’s Iconic Aussie commitments, and working on his own
Ford V8 GTO that does it in resto’s (yes there is more than one),
a tortoise like 14 seconds to organises newsletters, the cruises, the
appreciate just how fast that is! sausages and is an all round fantastic
bloke ~ Ed.
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Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017 13

Art
s
DAISY GRABBED RUTH George Harrison’s ‘My Sweet
Lord’, we laughed out loud. Clinton Cross encourages artists of all ages.
AND OLGA AND WENT TO Have we been wrong about Find his gallery at 4/3 Electra Street.
Marvel all this time? Are the Bundy is so lucky to have him.
A SPECIAL SCREENING AT movies always this tongue-
in-cheek? No, we are not We can’t promote your
READING CINEMA. THE converts yet, and the hideous ‘thing’ if you don’t tell
‘Logan’ is too fresh in the us about your ‘thing’.
OLD MOLLS gossiped ALL mind to think that we will
be any time soon, but there [email protected]
THE WAY THROUGH. they is one other feature that
lifts this above the mire of
are really suspicious monotonous blockbusters – it
is stridently anti-god.
about Beryl (coming
There are a number of
soon to a theatre near secondary stories at play,
dealing with revenge, power,
you) BUT BETWEEN THEM unspoken love and other
human frailties – all acted out
they CAME UP WITH THIS as they were by the ancient
deities on Mount Olympus
VTGREoVhuIlEeaW. .r2GNdoatibalaandx.syof – but it is the conflict with
omnipotent Ego that is at the
If it weren’t for the ear- core of the matter. Ego is the
splitting excesses of the father of half god/half human
climactic scenes, these Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), and
reviewers would have to eat he needs him to help in his
multiple humble pies and grand plan to take over the
concede that the latest from universe. Peter, wanting to
the endless production line of know who killed his mother,
Marvel super-hero fantasies is taken in by Ego’s promises,
is pretty good. We wouldn’t but his close friends are not.
venture any further than
that, but we were pleasantly The effects are stunning,
surprised that we were able the narrative straightforward
to stay the course instead of and Peter’s fellow guardians
leaving early. personable – the relationship
between the giant Drax
For starters, it’s laced with (Dave Bautista) and petite
casually delivered gags that Mantis (Pom Klementieff) is
make the otherwise absurd especially cute. The Big Fight
characters seem easier to at the end is far too long,
identify with. Then there which is a given in this type
is the soundtrack, which of flick, but it’s worth a look.
repeatedly hits a surreal note
when you least expect it –
Glen Campbell, Sam Cooke,
Jay and the Americans add
rich irony and tunefulness,
but when the crew arrive
at the planet of Ego (Kurt
Russell) accompanied by

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14 Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017

B u n daber g Ar t Soci et y I cannot let this issue go without paying tribute to Bob Percival.
The father of this fantastic girl, Gina and best friend of Terri
What 's a nude? Eagle. Bob was (god I hate saying ‘was’) inspired me to pursue
my writing career as he was working on his own (he got his
RSVP by 25t h M ay Exhibit ion feat ur ing Phd) and was a fantastic author. Gina was my Harry’s first
M ar i on Ph: 4155 1630 works by girlfriend and between us all we worked out how to deal with
the teenage love and create safe spaces. Terri has told me that
our t alent ed m em ber s Bob’s memorial service will be held on May 21 at The Writer’s
Centre Rozelle, Sydney in The Patrick White Room. Just so sad.
Opening night by invit at ion only ~ Mandy x.
FRI 26th M ay 6 pm

Op en t o t h e p u b l i c u n t i l 3 r d Ju n e
27-28t h M ay 9-3

& ever y Tu es, Th u r s, Sat 9-12

B u n daber g Ar t Soci et y

What 's a nude?

RSVP by 25t h M ay Exhibit ion feat ur ing
M ar i on Ph: 4155 1630 works by

our t alent ed m em ber s

Opening night by invit at ion only
FRI 26th M ay 6 pm

Op en t o t h e p u b l i c u n t i l 3 r d Ju n e
27-28t h M ay 9-3

& ever y Tu es, Th u r s, Sat 9-12

Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017 15

Art • P ainting without a Brush Are you a poet
s with wildlife artist Gary and know it?
DAISY and Ruth have From the minute that Woodfield. Saturday 20 May Here’s your space!
Joe (Caine) walks lead- @ 9.30am. BYO materials.
had a falling out and footed and expressionless $50. Bookings: 4151 4665. @ yellow
into his bank to be told ArtPlus. Firstly, everything was
Olga sided with Ruth that he is overdrawn, the narrow. Like ‘Alice in
movie is wrapped in an Denizens Wonderland’. I twisted
so Daisy went on her octogenarian fugue. Joe, of the and topsy-turvey-ed to get
who has miraculously not Deep is on display through the front door.
pat Malone to watch lost his Cockney accent, Small windows, tiny stairs
despite working at a at Council‘s Bargara and exciting chairs. I’ve
this tragedy of a film. steelworks for thirty years Service Centre in Hughes been here before.
with Willie (Freeman), has Road and is amazing. The I am greeted by a handful
she ate two buckets of also seen his and his mates’ expert craftmanship of of tiny faces, they are
superannuation moved off- the late Nobby Clark is colourful children.
popcorn. shore, so the only reasonable extraordinary. I blinked and I saw myself,
option for them is to pull a His skilful work with local I am just as small as them.
Going in Style heist and take back from the timbers to bring the reef to A dozen sets of eyes
oppressors of the working life is beyond words. stare into my soul. They
Michael Caine is eighty- man what is rightfully theirs. Have a look for yourself are worried but they are
four years old, and he at absculptures.com hopeful. The Orphanage
looks and acts every day But first they need to learn if you can‘t to get the of Happiness – I have lived
of it in an underwhelming the ropes and tool-up. There showroom. there for decades and didn’t
comedy that is as stale as is so much potential wasted know it was the beginning
last week’s bread. by a dreary script and a cast of my life.
happy to hit the bundy (not The children here are just
To think that he was the the rum – that clock in/clock like me.
toast of swingin’ sixties off thing) every morning for I talked to them, I heard
London and the heroic, the million or so bucks they their songs, I listened
golden haired lieutenant at will have been paid to go to them laugh. They all
the battle of Rorkes Drift – through the motions. wanted to come with me, I
not that Morgan Freeman only have room for one.
comes off looking much I found myself staring at “My name is Yellow, I’m five
better. Out of the three old those weird black freckle- today,” he said to me.
codgers who combine to things that are scattered “Yellow is my favourite
rob a bank, only Alan Arkin around Freeman’s eyes and colour”
appears to be more than hoping for Matt Dillon, an I whispered back . . .
a heartbeat from death’s actor with a subtly honed Hayley Thane
door, and the kindest thing comic skill, to be more (my darling girl) wrote this for
we can say about Ann- involved as Detective Hamer. her first writing assignment at
Margret is that maybe next Braff tries to jazz it up with Wollongong University where she
time she should consult split screen (not a kombi), is studying to be a primary school
Cher’s cosmetic surgeon. collage and a few other tricks teacher after a six year gap year.
of the trade, but a potential So proud. Her tutor gave her top
Zach Braff’s sporadic gem turns out to be a Mary marks too!
career as director includes McFlocker.
the charming ‘Garden
State’ (2004), so it was
a surprise to see how
clunky his new offering
is – the scene in which
the gang pinch stuff
from a supermarket is
embarrassingly bad.

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‘thing’ if you don’t tell
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16 Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017

POTOWHFEER AN EVENING WITH
PETALS ROSIE BATTY
& DR BRIAN SULLIVAN
There is a certain power You are invited to a community forum with and Patron of Doncare Community Services and
in petals according speakers Rosie Batty & Dr Brian Sullivan, The Pride of Australia National Courage Medal Article courtesy of Moncrieff
to hairstylist turned followed by a meet and greet book signing. Recipient.
creative director of
Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should Brian Sullivan completed his doctorate in
Emmaline Grace, Emma have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in counselling and mental health at the College of
Hamilton. a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous Health and Human Services, University of Toledo,
event that shocked not only the nation, but the Ohio in 2000, where he researched readiness
Emma is hosting a workshop world. Greg Anderson murdered his 11-year- for change of court-mandated male perpetrators
teaching people to take time old son Luke and was then shot by police at the of domestic violence. While in the USA, Brian
out for themselves, slow down Tyabb cricket oval. Rosie had suffered years of trained in the Duluth Model of Domestic Violence
and focus on the joy that simple family violence, and had had intervention and Intervention. He has worked intensively with
messages attached to flowers custody orders in place in an effort to protect court-ordered men using the Duluth program.
and the arrangement of those herself and her son. Brian was instrumental in designing and
flowers can bring in our daily developing the Master of Counselling Program
lives. Rosie become an outspoken and dynamic at the University of Queensland, where he
crusader against domestic violence which led to coordinated a course in Violence Issues in
Cut flowers and the ritual her been named Australian of the Year in January Counselling. He is currently teaching a course
of purchasing, arranging and 2015. Since then Rosie has made the most of on Crisis and Violence at the University of
gifting to others in times of joy, her position of influence, campaigning for the Queensland, Master of Counselling Program.
sadness, sickness, celebration necessary systemic and attitudinal change to
and health and the importance address the family violence epidemic. Rosie is He has also provided training for professionals
of the messages people send the CEO of The Luke Batty Foundation and runs in coordinated community responses to
with these flowers is what The the Never Alone Campaign, an online community domestic violence. He has regularly presented
Petal Pathway workshop series of 70,000 Australians who care about reducing at Queensland Police Domestic Violence
is all about. family violence and support Rosie in her advocacy Liaison Officers (DVLO) training. He has trained
and awareness raising. Probation and Parole Offices of Queensland
She is a qualified life Corrective Services annually since 2003. He has
coach who has a history of The Never Alone campaign has contributed reviewed the Queensland Police Service First
producing inspirational hand- to significant wins, including commitments Year Constables’ Domestic Violence Intervention
stamped vintage tableware and for respectful relationships education in every Training Package. In 2008, Brian was appointed
spoons under the Emmaline state and territory, increases in funding for a White Ribbon Ambassador. He has been a
Grace brand and it was while frontline services and increased awareness of member of the Redlands Domestic Violence
spending time stamping the issues within the family law system that put Action Group. He is currently working at YFS,
metalware, the idea of The women and children in danger. Along with the Logan as the Practice Manager of the Responsible
Petal Pathway was born. former Victorian Police Chief Ken Lay, Rosie was Men Program, where currently 5 Men’s
named as the founding members of the Council Behavioural Change groups meet per week.
Fond memories of playing in of Australian Governments advisory panel on
her Gran’s back garden in the preventing violence against women. YFS is a member of the Integrated Service
South of England as a young Response in Logan-Beenleigh, one of 3 pilot
girl, with blue hydrangeas Rosie is now leading a Victim Survivors’ programs throughout Queensland. Brian
remind Emma every day about Advisory Council for the Victorian Government supervises facilitators of the men’s behavioural
the positive power of flowers as a response to the country’s first Royal change program, women’s counsellors and
and she seeks to share the Commission into Family Violence. Fortune women’s advocates in the Domestic and
splendour in even the simplest Magazine has named Rosie one of it’s top 50 Family Violence Program at YFS, Logan. His
of flower picking rituals, like world’s greatest leaders and Rosie was voted understanding of DV is not only as a criminal
daisy chains and dandelions in the most influential person in the Not for Profit justice issue, but a public health and human rights
the back yard. sector on Pro Bono Australia’s Impact 25 list issue where the safety, the freedom, and the
and has been inducted into the Victorian Honour dignity of women and children are under threat.
The Petal Pathway work­ Roll of Women. Rosie is also an Ambassador for
shop is being held on Sunday Our Watch and the Lort Smith Animal Hospital
28 May in the Postmasters
Room at The Generator (above WEDNESDAY 17 MAY @7PM •MONCRIEFF
the CBD Post Office) with a This is a free community event supported by Edon Place
morning and afternoon session
on offer. and Bundaberg Regional Council

Participants in the workshop
will participate in hands
on bouquet making, flower
selection and flower placement,
affirmations and how positive
self-talk can connect you
to your dreams, goals and
encourage harmony into your
life and enjoy a delightful
English tea and treats while
doing it.
Tickets @ Evenbrite
or contact Emma on
0410567796.

Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017 17

The Baldwin Swamp Artists Series

Althea DeeleyThis is one of Althea’s favourite paintings, created in the Baldwin Shelter Shed

BE: It is our understanding that Council back in 1982, with a painting of calendulas
has acquired some of your Artworks. from my garden, is hard to beat simply
Can you tell us about that? because it was the first time that I had
Althea: Yes, a painting that I did of the entered a show. Winning the watercolour
Baldwin Wetlands won first prize in the award at the 1986 Biggenden Rose
‘Champion Fine Art Exhibition’, which Festival was especially satisfying, though,
was part of the 2001 Bundaberg Regional because there were so many well known,
Show. Council purchased it after the successful artists involved. Following
Mayor at the time, Kay McDuff, expressed on from that, I was asked to takeover
an interest in hanging it in her office. It’s the TAFE watercolour class because
now part of the Council’s permanent the current teacher had relocated to
collection. My portrait of Bundaberg artist Brisbane. I accepted the offer and taught
Charles Hazzard won the ‘Mt Perry Fine for a couple of terms, but was pleased
Art Pat Augustine Memorial Perpetual to be able to get back to doing my own
Trophy’ in 2008 and has been donated thing. That painting of the calendulas has
to the City collection, and a still life was been reproduced in the ‘History of the
acquired by the Bundaberg Art Festival Bundaberg Art Society’. It’s something that
Committee and it too has been included I am very proud of.
in the Bundaberg Art Collection.
BE: You are a beautiful person, inside
BE: One of our favourite paintings is and out. What is that ‘thing’ that keeps
one where you didn’t use a brush. What you so energised and youthful, and to
did you use to ‘bung’ on the paint? only see the positive in every situation?
Althea: For my painting of the egret, to Althea: Our area’s unique and beautiful
form the background shapes I dragged environment is always inspiring, and
the paint around the canvas with sticks painting and sharing a love of art with so
and soft plastic. The bird itself was created many wonderful Bundaberg people keeps
by using a squeegee. It was part of an me highly energised. We inspire each
exhibition titled ‘Without A Brush’. I also other. ‘Millaquin Mill Lake Reflections’
did one of gum blossoms, using sticks, a was done when I was working with such
roller, a sponge and an old dish mop. It a group and it went on the win the major
was such fun, and the show was a great prize at the Gin Gin Art Exhibition. I
success. am motivated, too, to be involved in
social activities. At the Turtle Festival
BE: Even though you appear very casual a few years ago, my turtle painting was
about your art. You have been featured in the winning shop window. I find it
in quite a few exhibitions. What was extremely rewarding to be part of these
your proudest moment? sorts of activities and to feel that I have
Althea: I guess the thrill of winning the contributed to life in Bundaberg.
Encouragement Award at an exhibition

18 Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017

Helen Theodora Chang < 1880 ~ 1912 >

LOCAL hystorian M. ANTHONY NELSON SHARES ANOTHER forgotten BUNDABERG story

Dorothy Chang lost her broke out, forcing her to flee To supplement her income, had begun compiling such a
husband Chou to snake bite China with Claude Le Close, she frequently posed for book when she was invited to
shortly after her daughter’s ostensibly a tutor of French at painters, most notably Pablo do a lecture tour of the US.
birth in Bundaberg on the International School, but Picasso. Helen would never
Christmas Eve, 1880. also a busy operative in the forgive him for his depiction With the world at her feet,
Growing up above her opium trade. of her in his seminal ‘Les in 1912 Helen set sail for New
parents’ haberdashery shop Demoiselles d’Avignon’ York aboard the RMS Titanic.
in Phillip Parade left Helen Settling in Le Clos’s (1907), in which she is seen Sadly, she was one of its
with a lifelong love of sewing home city of Avignon, Helen at the front right. Writing more than 1,500 passengers
and needlework, but it was at soon found work teaching in her diary (she was a that perished when it sank in
St Pius’s College For Young English while at the same compulsive diarist all her the North Atlantic.
Ladies (now defunct) that time embarking on a written life), she described Picasso as
Helen’s genius for language account of her experience in ‘a horrid little despot’. Helen’s history of the Boxer
came to the fore. Peking. Le Clos, ever at home rebellion (translated into
among the demi-monde, Helen’s memoir of a dozen languages) would
Studying Classics, she made contacts with and acted Peking, ‘The Boxer; A Short become a primary source
won the state-wide Livia as a middleman for suppliers History’, was published by for the 1963 film, ’55 Days
Drusilla Award for Latin of hashish in Morocco, MacMillan in 1910 and, to her at Peking’, starring Charlton
composition (1897) and, after but was fatally stabbed surprise and delight, it was Heston and Ava Gardner
leaving school, fascinated by by unknown assailants in an immediate international who, by poignant serendipity,
her Chinese heritage, Helen a café in Tangiers (1904). success. Leaving Avignon, shared Helen’s birthday of
accepted the position of Helen remained in Avignon, she took up residence in December 24th. One can’t
governess at the household of however, where her exotica Bloomsbury (London) and help thinking that this would
a British merchant in Peking - she was regarded as a rare became a great favourite have pleased the girl from
(1899). Eurasian beauty - appealed of Virginia Woolf, who Bundy no end.
greatly to local artists and encouraged her to write of Image: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Les
Shortly after her arrival, socialites. her youth in Bundaberg. Helen Demoiselles d’Avignon’.
however, the Boxer Rebellion

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Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017 19

TheTaribelang
Taribelang Aboriginal
Bundy Echo met with Nikkinoo Tiger and Byron Broome and Dance Group of Arts
discovered some fascinating history of our traditional owners.
They loaned us Bundaberg: From Pioneers to Prosperity, a fantastic As we are the Traditional Owners of the Bundaberg region,
book written by Neville Rackemann. We will include extracts on a we have created a Dance Group to be recognised by the
regular basis. community as the first Taribelang dance group to be formed
for the first time in 126 years! We are proud and honoured to
Where did the Taribelang come from? be involved in the community sharing and performing Our
way and dance of life. We would appreciate your support in
During the last Ice Age, rocky headland to the south. being hired and to have the opportunity to show you our
what is now the Australian As these people left no performances that have been passed
continent was joined to the written records whatsoever down from generation to generation.
island of New Guinea. The and as the Taribelang are Our performances provide:
islands we now know as Java no more, only one feature • Traditional Dancing
and Borneo were part of the can now be identified by its • Traditional Dancing Lessons
Asian mainland. Between original name. Along its upper • Story Telling • Traditional Arts
these two landmasses, and reaches the river was known • Face Painting
in most cases fairly close as borrall-borrall; along the Call Byron or Nikkinoo 0447 953 681
together at 100 to 120 lower reaches the Taribelang or visit the website or Facey.
kilometres apart, were a referred to the stream as
number of islands. Aborigines birrabarra. Today it is known Byron explains that these dancers are not in traditional dress but
from South East Asia, using as the Burnett River. it represents our skin colour. The dance that the girls are doing is
crude watercraft, made their a women’s dance and it pays respect to all women.
way across to the southern Remaining identification FINAL AUSTRALIA DAY AWARD RECIPIENT
continent by ‘island hopping’. must come from a name HONOURED
bestowed by white men. The 21 Feb 2017
This is now accepted as beach is Mon Repos and the The final 2017 Australia Day Spirit Award was presented at
the earliest evidence of sea unnamed rocky headland the Council’s Ordinary Meeting this morning with Byron
navigation by man. This to the south separates that Broome accepting the Creative Spirit Award.
migration occurred during beach from Nielson Park
the Pleistocene Age, 40,000 beach. It was among the sand Byron was unavailable to attend the official awards
to 70,000 years ago. Ever so dunes behind Mon Repos presentation held last month.
slowly, small family groups beach that the Taribelang
– ‘tribes’– made their way established their semi- Mayor Jack Dempsey said Byron is a lead dancer with the
south into this new land. permanent camp. (As a Taribelang Dance Group and through his art and cultural
One tribe of Australia’s first migratory people they built no awareness he is sharing his skills and knowledge with the
people eventually arrived permanent shelters, nor did region’s young indigenous.
at a 5-kilometre-long beach they till the soil)
located between the mouth To be continued . . . “The Taribelang Dance Group perform at many regional
of a river to the north and a community events and it is this exhibition of traditional
© Neville Rackemann, dance that provides the wider community with an insight into
Bundaberg City Council aboriginal culture,” said the Mayor.

“Byron has a passion to ensure the younger generation is
involved in learning indigenous art and culture with the result
they become the keepers of the knowledge.”
Photo: Byron Broom pictured receiving his Australia Day
Creative Spirit Award from Mayor Jack Dempsey and Cr Judy
Peters.Article courtesy of: http://www.bundaberg.qld.gov.au/

20 Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017

A helping hand for
elizabeth In our search for the rare and unusual around Bundaberg, we stumbled

upon an exclusive gentleman’s club in Mon Repos. We coaxed, with
daring promises, one of the Club’s fabulously wealthy roués, Horatio
Bitemark, to record for us the weekly epicurean adventures of the idle
rich. Now and then a spot of leather and whips creeps in:

Horatio Bitemark

Bizzy Lizzy, the Club’s collage: mandy thane
dominatrix-on-call, sat
weeping uncontrollably upon whiphand’s neighbour, buy butler Sanders remove her electricity through the chairs
the edge of the dining table. the property at a reduced rate by way of the laundry chute, soon fixed that. We settled
In the midst of her distress from the distraught relatives a wad of notes in her not our nerves with a pipe of
Bosworth, unrepentant roué, and turn it into an upmarket insubstantial décolletage, opium and ordered up a
was staring down Lizzy’s B&B. Mandrill immediately and returned to the issue at goat kid roasted with bitou
tram conductress costume called Mon Repos Gottago, hand: lunch. Some members bush and a macadamia
in the hope of a glimpse of bespoke assassins to the felt too upset to eat and sauce accompanied by a very
nipple. For his part Club gentry, and the deed was as wanted to push on directly pleasant Hirsute Brothers
manager Achmed Edfed good as done. to the barrel of Frosty’s 1994 Merlot, redolent of
jumped nervously from foot Extra Sweet Gewurztraminer berries and badly burnt toast.
to foot, as it was a strict Having consoled the 1982, but a bolt of corrective
rule that women were not young lady, we had the
allowed within a pheromone’s
shot of the building, and
members in the billiards
room were already going into
anaphylactic shock.

Patting her knee in my best
avuncular fashion, I asked
the Lizter the cause of her
problems. Her neighbour
had Baygoned the wrens
in her garden, she cried,
and the poor little things
had died cruelly among
the roses. We resolved by
majority vote, Abbotsleigh
abstaining because he was
too intoxicated to understand
the motion, to take out a
contract on Bundaberg’s best

ONE OF ‘BITEMARK’S FAVOURITE HANGS

Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017 21

communitystuff
compiled by Sarah Martin

■ BUNDABERG POTTERY CLUB ■ BEACH 365: Fun Friday Social Arcade. One day workshop for
Studio Tour: Every Thursday and Night Games people who would like to become
Saturday 9 – 11.30am. Just ask Friday 12 May practioners $300pp Call Tamar on
a potter at the Pottery Workshop. $10 per person 0413 065 661 or email tamiboas@
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Street ■ TRIVIA NIGHT FOR GIVE ME 5 ■ BUNDABERG VINTAGE & RETRO
FOR KIDS @ Bundaberg Services FASHION MARKETS Riverfeast,
■ BUNDABERG POETS SOCIETY Club, Friday 12 May Bundaberg
This group meets every second 6.30pm $10pp Book your table of 6 Saturday 21 Apr
Saturday to share verse and curse. people on 4155 4333 12 – 6pm Step back in time to
They visit aged care facilities and celebrate all things Vintage
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page, they are fab. AND VOLUNTEER EXPO @ 31 Doblo Street, Branyan (RSPCA
Alexandra Park, Quay Street, Grounds) Sunday 21 May 7am
■ ALLOWAY OBSERVATORY Friday 12 May You and your pooch are invited to
Our nerdy mates who are all 10.00am Come along and join the Million Paws Walk event
volunteers invite all who love to acknowledge the generous in Bundaberg. The walk will be
stare into space, on clear Friday contribution of our nation’s brimming with activities, food, furry
nights, to their well equipped volunteers. friends and more $25 Adults; $15
observatory. Cheap as chips Child; $25 Concession; $55 Family
membership deals. ■ MUMMA’S NEST MARKETS @ (2 Adults, 2 Children)
BRAG Saturday 13 May ■ OIL UP – RECOVER AND
■ SHALOM MARKETS 3-7pm Annual Artisan and Maker’s SUCCEED @ Rock Bar &
Every Sunday Market is Back!! Come and enjoy Grill Sunday May 21 10:30am
7 – 12PM the autumn cool with food and Presented by NEENA LOVE, a
refreshment stalls, designer crafts very experienced body-worker
■ THE PINK HOUSE, MOORE and arts, and live entertainment. and hugely successful in Young
PARK Every Monday - Women’s Living, as well as buddy distance
Activity Group: $2 includes tea or ■ APPLE TREE CREEK MARKETS runner. Neena will share in a fun
coffeeEvery Tuesday - Quilting: Saturday 13 May and interactive way, guided by the
All levels from beginner to expert 7am Live entertainment & a variety participants needs with extensive
welcome $2 includes tea of coffee of stalls. Even bring your car for a knowledge to draw from and many
Monday 22 May - Cappuccino & boot sale. years of training $10pp
Cake Day: Come and join the fun ■ RETIREMENT ROADSHOW
for a $5 donation ■ ALL HOLDEN DAY SWAP & Tuesday 23 May
MEET + FF1 CAMPER TRAILER 5.15 – 7pm @ Burnett Club, 5 Quay
■ GIN GIN WILD SCOTCHMAN DISPLAY Street
MARKETS Every Saturday Saturday 13 May @ Waves Sports ■ BUNDABERG CAREERS EXPO
7 – 12pm @ Historical Society Club Complex TUESDAY 23 May
Ground 08:30am 0-17 $1 18 & over $5 School Session: 9.30 am - 3pm
Public Session: 4pm - 5.30 pm @
■ BUNDABERG ORCHID SHOW @ ■ BUNDABERG PCYC MARKETS Bundaberg Civic Centre
Civic Centre Thursday 11-14 May Sunday 14 May ■ CANE COUNTRY SQUARES
8am 8 – 12pm @ Bundaberg Multiplex, 1 TUESDAY 23 May
Civic Avenue, Bundaberg 6.30pm FIRST NIGHT FREE,
■ FULL MOON DRUMMING EVENT Mordern music, fun and friendship
Thursday 11 May ■ MOTHERS DAY CONCERT @ Rum City Band Hall (Targo
5pm The Esplanade, Bargara Bring Sunday 14 May Street) Contact Matthew:
a chair and instrument or book 2pm Sunday14th May Hosted by 0418 479 814
a community drum. Catering for the Apostolic Church, Ashfield
beginners to professionals. Road. Enrty by Donation

■ HEALTHY WITH HOMEOPATHY ■ RELAY FOR LIFE CHARITY
WORKSHOP: TAMAR BOAS TRIVIA NIGHT Friday 19 May
Thursday 11 May & 18 May 6.30 – 10pm @ Bundaberg Civic
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Arcade. Basic introduction to with light refreshments and tea &
homeopathy, Bring a mum for free coffee included in the cost. BYO
$30pp Call Tamar on 0413 065 661 alcohol. Phone Wendy 4130 4263
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■ ACCESS BAR TRAINING DAY:
22 Bundy Echo May 10 – May 24, 2017 TAMAR BOAS
Saturday 20 May
9.30 – 5:30am Upstairs Target

Scratch your watch or wind your arse

Bruce Noble Bruce Noble
contemplates reckons size does
not matter
Have youtheveewrawteorntdoewreedr
who the people are that get the gigs to Lisbon’s Belem Tower,
make those lists of the greatest this and the by which the intrepid
greatest that? You know, those compilations Portuguese explorers sailed
that appear out of the ether every time you when setting forth on their
go googling and stare back at you from your journeys of discovery, is as
cute as a button, but it is
screen like the commandments of Moses? more like a Disney castle
Well, whoever it was that came up with the than a fair dinkum tower -
fourteen greatest towers in the world (why let’s face it, you’ll never see
fourteen?) didn’t know whether to scratch Tinkerbell trailing stardust
from any of the East
his watch or wind his arse. Either that or
he simply has never been to Bundaberg, Bundy’s windows.
because I reckon our East Bundy Water The CN Tower in Toronto
Tower would be a moral to find a place in is no more than a giant
needle and it surely gets
any true connoisseur’s catalogue. a start thanks to the
We’ve all passed it a million times, standing sympathy vote - what else
has Canada got besides
lonely and a wee bit too phallic for its own Mounties and bears?
good (it goes with the territory, you might - while Afghanistan’s
Minaret of Jam is there
say) over there in Sussex Street, but its owing to the fact that it
modest presentation and utilitarian nature
is the only man-made
should not disqualify it from joining the structure that has not
company of Wikipedia’s glam fourteen. been reduced to rubble in
Designed by James Baillie Henderson that benighted country.
In the end, there is not
(who, as a neat linguistic connection, much point in arguing
also created the water supply system the toss about the
for Bendigo) and erected by Neils Carl fourteen chosen towers -
Steffensen in 1900-02, it is nowhere near Georgia’s Svaneti towers
as old as its more celebrated cousins, have all the charm of
but at least it has been able to keep itself a gathering of brick
upright, unlike that drunken Renaissance
outhouses - but I’m
tower in Pisa. happy to nominate our
Without a precarious tilt, the East Bundy is East Bundy if a fifteenth
spot is called for.
far too perfectly constructed to allow for It is unpretentious
a repeat of Galileo’s gravity experiment and calm, elegant
(he was such a show-off), and with all due and unique, proudly
respect to its aesthetic loveliness, it’s not functional and
likely to knock the Eiffel Tower off Wiki’s unashamedly local.
number one perch. Especially seeing as And so what if it is
how the Froggies have been so successful
at promoting themselves as arbiters of only thirty-five metres
high? Size doesn’t
sophistication and elegance (oddly, it matter when it comes
was one of their own, the writer Guy de to beautiful things.
Mauppassant, who made a point of dining

at the tower every day because it was
the only place in Paris where he could
eat without having to look at the ghastly

thing).

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