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Axe Creek – Eppalock Newsletter
Incorporating news from the Eppalock Primary School, Axe Creek Fire Brigade & the Axe Creek Landcare Group.
Welcome to the Winter Issue
All of a sudden winter has arrived!
Time to rug up and enjoy all the cooler season has to offer - Footy,
Netball, Soccer. For those avid gardeners, now is the time to plant
your bulbs in readiness for a colourful spring.
The cooler weather is also a great time to stay indoors, if you haven’t
visited the Imagining Ned exhibition at the Bendigo Art Gallery - time
is running out.
July will see the Sheep & Wool Show again highlighting food, fashion
& farming for 3 days.
Please take note of the fire safety reminders provided by the local
Brigade as they highlight more deaths occur through house fires than
bushfires.
We’d love to hear your feedback on our publication. Good or bad,
this newsletter is for the locals, so tell us what you think via email to
[email protected] .
Until next time,
Sam Spence
Edition 47. Winter 2015
Welcome
Community Notice Board
CFA News
Eppalock PS Update
Axe Creek Playgroup
Landcare’s Latest
Church News
Community News
Kids Corner
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Thank you to this issues
Contributors
John Wells - Axe Creek Fire
Brigade
Marie Mannes - Eppalock PS
Cathy Watson - Axe Creek
Landcare
Gillian Wells - Axe Creek Land-
care
Steve Weickhardt - Anglican
Parish
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Community Notice Board
Emergency Contact Numbers
Fire, Police & Ambulance 000 (life threatening or time critical emergencies only)
SES Flood & Storm Emergency 13 25 00
Bushfire Information 1800 240 667
Information & advice about significant fires, total fire bans
Burn Off Notifications 1800 668 511
Poisons Information 13 11 26
Wildlife Rescue Service 0419 356 433
Useful Websites
CFA www.cfa.vic.gov.au
DSE www.dse.vic.gov.au
Vic Roads www.vicroads.vic.gov.au
School Terms
2015
Term 1
29 Jan – 27 Mar
Term 2
13 Apr – 26 Jun
Term 3
13 Jul – 18 Sept
Term 4
5 Oct – 18 Dec
Local Churches
St Stephens Anglican & Strathfieldsaye Uniting
Church
920 Wellington St, Strathfieldsaye
Combined Service - Sunday Mornings – 9am
Family Service - Saturday - 5pm
St Joseph’s Catholic Church
Cnr Axe Creek & Strathfieldsaye/Eppalock Rds.
Sunday Mornings – 9am
All Welcome
Axe Creek CFA
Captain Neil Irving-Dusting
5439 6388
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CFA News From Axe Creek Brigade
A CAUTIONARY TALE... A couple of months ago, while helping at a public event in Melbourne, I witnessed a mishap
that could have developed into a nasty situation.
It was night time. A small outdoor stage was lit by half a dozen small floodlights—the sort com-
monly used for domestic security lighting—clamped to a timber frame.
During a lull in proceedings, while our attention was directed elsewhere, one of the floodlights
fell from its mounting and landed upside down on the power cable. The heat from the lamp
melted the insulation, causing the live wires to short, and the dry grass underneath caught fire.
Fortunately an onlooker noticed the fallen lamp, kicked it away and extinguished the flames by
stamping on them.
Had the grass been longer, and the fallen lamp not noticed, the fire could have grown to a
dangerous size.
I was reminded of a house fire in Bendigo last winter that started after somebody moved a box
of papers on top of a connector in the power cable to an electric heater. The householder then
left home, only to return to find the house badly damaged by fire and smoke. The slow build-up
of heat in the power connection had been sufficient to set the paper alight.
The take-home message!
Lights and heaters, and even power cables, can get hot enough to melt plastic insulation, and
ignite nearby fuel. Make sure all appliances are stable and secure, and keep power cables un-
covered so they cannot overheat. Remember, too, to keep clothes and towels at least a meter
away from any kind of heater.
...AND ANOTHER!
This is from a recent story in the news section of the CFA website:
A woman can thank a brave neighbour for alerting her to a fire in the dining room of her
home.
Two smoke detectors fitted to the house failed to sound the alarm due to flat batteries.
The neighbour suffered cuts to his foot after kicking in a window and using a garden hose to
fight the fire.
Three CFA crews were quickly on scene, managing to contain the fire to the dining area in
around five minutes.
It’s believed a candle started the fire.
The Morals
1. Maintain good relations with your neighbours.
2. Make sure all your smoke alarms are working. Test them regularly.
3. Call 000 immediately if there is a fire.
4. Don't leave candles unattended.
By the way, did you know each year there are around 3,000 house fires in Victoria? And that more people die in house fires than in bushfires? Let's try and improve the statistics!
It's believed a candle started this fire.
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WE INTERVIEW THE BRIGADE CAPTAIN
Neil Irving-Dusting has been Captain of Axe Creek Fire Brigade for five years. Before that he
had been Secretary for 14 years. I first asked, When did you join the CFA and why?
"I grew up in a CFA family, where firefighting was a part of our lives. (My father was a member
for 63 years, and one of my brothers has served almost 50 years.) I joined the Queenscliff bri-
gade as a junior—in fact I was the brigade's first junior member, and the brigade rules had to
be changed to allow it."
What is the biggest change you have seen in your time with CFA?
"In the 1970s volunteer brigades were pretty much left to do their own things, seeking direction
from paid staff when needed. Now everything is monitored and controlled from the centre. In
some aspects this is good, but in others it isn't."
Can you tell us some of the highlights of your service with CFA?
"As a member of a strike team sent to the 2007 alpine fires I was one of the last people to sleep
in the Mt Buffalo Chalet: it closed after we left.
"For several years I was Secretary of the Region 21 Council of the Victorian Rural Fire Brigades
Association, which represented the interests of volunteers to the CFA. (It later combined with
the volunteer association for urban brigades to form Volunteer Fire Brigades Victoria.) Region
21 included the whole area surrounding Bendigo, but not the urban brigades.
"When the CFA amalgamated Region 21 and Region 19 (to the west of the Loddon River) we
had to work hard to persuade the brigades in the two old Regions to join together to form a
single regional Council of the Association.
"Axe Creek brigade area used to extend into what is now Strathdale. In the 1990s we realised
that the impending rapid growth of Strathfieldsaye was such that a separate brigade would be
needed. I am proud to have helped to establish the Strathfieldsaye Fire Brigade. Our two bri-
gades together serve the community much better than a single brigade could do."
As well as your Brigade and Region responsibilities you represent volunteers at a State level.
Can you tell us about that?
"I am a member of the Joint Communications and Technology Committee—this is where volun-
teers can talk with with CFA officials about applications of technology, such as the State com-
munications systems. Recently the CFA radio network and pagers have been upgraded, and
as a result most brigades are better able to respond to emergencies, but some of the changes
could have been implemented more effectively. It's important for volunteers to have input into
the decision-making processes, so that further developments meet brigades' needs more
closely."
Just what is the role of the brigade Captain?
"The Captain has certain legal obligations, delegated from the CFA Chief Officer, such as a re-
quirement to ensure that the brigade is ready to respond to emergencies, members trained,
equipment maintained and so on. But the main job is that of a coordinator, organiser and
scheduler. The Captain also acts as a direct link between the brigade and the CFA organisa-
tion. That entails many meetings phone calls, emails, etc., dealing with all kinds of issues."
Finally, what are the biggest issues facing Axe Creek Fire Brigade?
"Locally, we need more active members so that we can maintain our protection of the Axe
Creek community. The building boom in Strathfieldsaye means that more and more we'll be
called on to support Strathfieldsaye brigade at fires in buildings. There is the potential for major
losses, especially with the expansion of the shops, schools, service station and other large com-
munity facilities.
"Statewide it is likely that smaller rural brigades are likely to be left behind as resources are di-
rected more to meet growth in the larger populations centres, such as outer metropolitan Mel-
bourne, and regional cities. The Brigade greatly appreciates the support from our community,
and hopes that will continue!"
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Here is a rather sad story from 1897. I cannot help feeling there was more to it than the
newspaper report tells us.
Bendigo Advertiser, Wednesday 22 December 1897
FATAL FIRE AT AXE CREEK.
A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.
EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF A GIRL.
About 7 o'clock on Monday morning a fire broke out in the dwelling of Mr. W. Barber, farmer, at
Axe Creek, and an eight months old baby, which was sleeping in a bedroom, was burned to
death, despite the efforts of its grandmother to save it.
According to the evidence which was adduced at an inquiry held before Mr. T. Somerville, J.P.,
at Axe Creek, on the afternoon of the fatality, it appears that the fire was caused by Mary Bone,
a girl 13 years of age, who on Thursday last was boarded out to Mr. Barber from the Industrial
Schools. The girl stated at the inquiry that she had occasion to get out of bed early in the morn-
ing, and when she went to sleep again unwittingly left a lighted candle on a dressing table.
When she awoke, just before 7 o'clock, it was still burning, and she proceeded to dress herself
aided by its light. In dressing, however, she knocked against the table and the candle fell over
and set fire to the curtains at the window. It is difficult to account for the girl's subsequent strange
behavior, for, so runs her story, she left the burning room and went outside to lace up her boots
and wash her face and hands. During all this time, and while the flames were gaining a strong
hold in the girl's bedroom, Mrs. Barber and her mother (Mrs. Charlton) were preparing breakfast in
the kitchen. A crackling noise was the first sign of approaching danger given them, and when
they went to seek the cause they found the girl's bedroom and the bedroom in which lay the ba-
by in flames. Mrs. Barber rushed to her husband, who was working in a distant part of the farm, to
obtain his assistance, and it was then that she saw the girl Mary Bone standing near the stable
watching the flames, which were now clearly visible. The grandmother, while her daughter
sought her husband, ran to save the child, but before she could gain the bedroom the thick
smoke overpowered her, and she fell across the passage. Just as she was losing consciousness,
as she herself has related, she felt herself dragged from the building into the open air. Her rescuer
was Frank Drayton, about 17 years old, one of the farm hands, who on the alarm being given
had sought to obtain entrance to the child's bedroom from the front of the house, and who had
while making his way to the infant's room come across the prostrate form of its grandmother. All
efforts to save the home were now unavailing, and the child perished with its parents' belong-
ings. Mrs.Charlton, the grandmother, was severely burned in her courageous attempt to rescue
her grandchild, her face and ears and her arms from the fingers to the elbows being badly
scorched, while the hair was singed off the back of her head. In her old age the injuries and the
attendant shock are serious matters, but her medical adviser, Dr. Cook, expects that she will re-
cover.
The girl Bone fled in the direction of Bendigo as soon as the fire was discovered. She was fol-
lowed on foot by a boy for some time, but as he was unable to overtake her he procured a
horse and came up with her after a journey of six miles.
The house consisted of seven rooms and was uninsured. Mr. Barber estimates that £300 will not
cover his loss. Mrs. Charlton was driven to the residence of her son, Mr. M. W. Charlton, Rowan-
street, during the afternoon, where she remains confined to her bed.
As mentioned above, a magisterial inquiry was held at the farm on Monday afternoon before Mr.
T. Somerville, J.P., Mounted-constable Bowden being present on behalf of the police, and a ver-
dict of "accidental death" was recorded.
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Eppalock Primary School
EDUCATION WEEK was celebrated with many activities including visits from local kinder
groups, grandparents / special persons’ day and morning tea, school information sessions as
well as a visit to the Bendigo Art Gallery and the new Ulumbarra Theatre. At the Art Gallery
we explored the Imaging Ned exhibition seeing Ned’s armour, the Jerilderie Letter and his
shotgun. We learned a lot about Sydney Nolan’s art and we made our own contemporary
art. Following the Art Gallery we had a guided tour of the Ulumbarra Theatre. We got to go
into the cells of the old prison and hear about some of its history. This provided a wonderful
opportunity for us to see and explore the brand new Theatre complex and we were allowed
back stage and even onto the stage!
TEAM CHINA Eppalock Primary School is one of 15 schools involved in the Team
China program. Two students, Abby (Grade 6) and
Joe (Grade 5) along with staff member, Mr Harvey
left on Thursday 28th May for China on an Overseas
Learning Experience. During their travels, our Ep-
palock ambassadors will visit many tourist attractions
and attend school. Our student ambassadors have
participated in two pre-departure sessions along
with the other members travelling. During these ses-
sions students participated in activities to prepare
them for the experience.
Mr Harvey, Abby and Joe were very much looking
forward to immersing themselves in Chinese culture
and practising their Mandarin language skills whilst in
China.
Grandparent / Special Person morning tea
LIVING GREEN PROGRAM
Students were engaged
making beautiful terrariums for
their mums for Mothers’ Day.
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Anzac Day Service
On Thursday the 23rd of April Abby and Jazz joined students from schools across the State to
represent Eppalock Primary School at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, for the
schools’ Anzac Day Service.
Below is their report …
We were picked up at 7:30am by
a bus at Strathfieldsaye Primary
School. There were a few other
schools on the bus like Axedale,
Strathfieldsaye, Kalianna, Golden
Square and Inglewood. We arrived
in Melbourne at 11am. While trying
to find our seats we were all given
a sprig of rosemary—rosemary was
one of the first plants/flowers that
grew back after the war. When we
found our seats we were told that
a group of fighter jets were due to
fly over us at any moment.
Watching the fighter jets fly over us
was so awesome! We then listened
to a couple of speeches and lis-
tened to a poem called ‘All the
blooming way’ and we heard a
young girl named Laura Benney
read her poem she made about
personal sacrifice. She had re-
ceived The Victoria State Legacy Junior Public Speaking Award. We then listen to Melbourne
High School and Mac Robertson Girls High School sing ‘We Are Australian’. We then listened
to the Melbourne High School Choir sing ‘Waltzing Matilda’.
It was then a wreath was laid by the Governor of Victoria and Melbourne Legacy President
Ian Harrison. The Piper played lament and two students from each school laid the schools
wreaths. After everyone had returned to their seats the Legacy President recited The Ode ...
“They shall not grow old,
As we that are left grow old;
Age will not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning we will remember them”.
Afterwards we listened to the bugler sound the ‘Last Post’. We then had one minute silence
to pay respect.
Following the ceremony we went for a walk in the shrine, looked around the gardens and
took heaps of photos. We also looked around the statues near the shrine as well as the Eter-
nal Flame.
Overall we had an amazing time and hope students next year also get the chance to at-
tend the Schools Anzac Day Service.
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On Friday 24th April we held our own Commemora-
tion Ceremony which was very moving. Special
thanks to Nathan Tate (Levi & Amelia’s dad) who
joined us and showed and explained the medals he
was wearing. John Jones also brought along his Ar-
my Uniform and medals and explained the signifi-
cance of them. All students received a Rosemary
plants (the
herb of re-
membrance)
to take home.
ENROLMENTS 2016
Enrolments are now being taken for the 2016 school year for all grade levels.
Please contact the school if you would like an information pack
We welcome enquiries and personal school visits can be arranged.
Contact us on 5439 6366 or check out our website: eppalockps.vic.edu.au
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Axe Creek Community Playgroup
When Friday Mornings 9am - 10.30am
Where Eppalock PS – Old School Building.149 Patons Road Axe Creek
(just a few minutes from Strathfieldsaye) Playgroup is a place for you and your child to interact with other mums, dads, grandparents and care-
givers and their children. Playgroup provides opportunities for play and learning. Your child will develop
new skills and gain confidence by interacting with other children. No child is too young for playgroup. All
children from 0-5 years, including babies, love new experiences and benefit from developing sensory,
social and communication skills through activities at playgroup.
Morning Tea & activities provided.
Gold Coin Donation
For further information please phone (03) 5439 6366
email: [email protected]
http://www.eppalockps.vic.edu.au
All Welcome
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Latest from Axe Creek Landcare
The Axe Creek Landcare Committee meet at Eppalock Primary School,
in the old staffroom on the first Monday of each month
at 8.00 pm during daylight saving period
or at 7.30 pm for the rest of the year.
We have two or three public meetings during the year, generally with a guest speaker.
Topics in the past have included weeds, pest animals, sustainable soils, gardening, ani-
mal husbandry, grasses. We also hold field days, working bees and excursions.
Members of the community are always welcome to attend any meeting!
Maintaining Remnant Habitats - project of the Axe Creek Landcare Group
Background: The Axe Creek catchment has a long history of clearing and modification. The
rural area is essentially re-growth forests or cleared private land. Both areas are seriously lack-
ing in understory plants which have been destroyed by forest densification and large con-
trolled burns.
Our Group desires to restore plant diversity so as to assist in mitigating the chronic impacts on
food-webs of the forest destruction. Land close to Box Ironbark forests will be used to introduce
plant varieties known to promote invertebrate diversity.
Through planting key understory species on private properties, and at Eppalock School, it is
hoped that a broader range of invertebrates, especially moths, beetles and butterflies, will be
sustained. It is hoped that the plantings will address the improvement and stabilization of food-
webs that have suffered over the years.
The expected increase in invertebrates in the understory will support the increase of insecti-
vores amongst our local native birds and small animals such as the grey crowned babbler and
Phascogales.
Success will be measured by monitoring of moth populations across the Axe Creek Catchment
and the active involvement and maintenance of planting by community members. The pro-
ject will build skill and knowledge in the local community through a training night with guest
speakers on planting techniques,, encouraging bio-diversity and care of local plants. Planting
days will be held at Eppalock Primary School, private property and Stony Crossing Reserve. in
Axe Creek Road.
Material will be provided that provides information on selecting suitable local plant species
and identification of invertebrates and insectivores.
Members are patiently waiting until the plants are ready and then we'd like some rain! Mem-
bers will have the option of receiving approximately 100 plants for their property.
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CHANGING LAND USE IN AXE CREEK
It’s an interesting thing that, if you compare aerial photographs of our particular part of the
world taken 50 or 60 years ago with photographs of the area taken recently, you will notice that
there is more tree cover now than there used to be.
We might feel that is a comfort when we think about the deforestation that is going ahead in
other parts of the world.
As Landcare members – or, at least, nature lovers – there are some things to think about as we
consider this growth in tree numbers.
Around Axe Creek, what I call ‘proper farming’ is giving way to other land uses: more recreation
and conservation areas, hobby farms and lifestyle properties. In all of these there is a trend to-
wards more tree cover. The forests which were repeatedly harvested during the 19th and first
half of the 20th century continue to regenerate.
With the additional trees there is the potential for more wildlife – and indeed there are many
more kangaroos now than there were 60 years ago. However, trees alone do not make for a
rich diversity of life. Small plants, medium sized plants and big ones all contribute to that.
Mature forest has a range of big trees, smaller trees, shrubs and ground cover and supports a
range of fauna. We don’t have much mature forest around here. However not all creatures
choose mature forest. The old regrowth forest, the revegetation areas and the remaining open
paddocks each provide habitats for different populations of animals.
It seems that, in some cases, the regrowth of trees doesn’t mean greater diversity of flora and
fauna. It may well mean less. When trees regenerate in cleared areas, they can do it with a
vengeance! We often see hundreds of skinny trunks, crowding together and outcompeting un-
derstory plants that could have provided habitat for a range of insects, birds and animals.
While these densely treed areas
will eventually thin themselves, it is
likely that will take a very long
time. In the meantime the trees
can’t grow as quickly or develop
those features beloved of wildlife
such as big boughs and hollows.
They pose an increased fire risk
and are more vulnerable to in-
sect attack.
It would be easy to say that
dense patches should be
thinned, but I’m not sure that the
issue is so straightforward. In
many circumstances, though,
thinning the dense growth, by
opening the ground up to sun-
light and reducing the competition for nutrients and water has resulted in more understory veg-
etation. (It might be native vegetation or it might be weeds! That depends on the seedbank in
the soil.)
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Church News
From the Rev’s Desk
When was the last time you were thirsty? Really thirsty from hard work under the hot sun? How
refreshing was that cool drink afterwards? Did you feel your core temperature drop as your
body absorbed the hydration and coldness?
Dehydration is unpleasant, isn’t it? It causes disorientation, weakness and becomes very
dangerous if untreated. When we are thirsty, our bodies are already well-dehydrated. We
need to constantly be re-hydrating our bodies even when we aren’t thirsty in order to fully live.
Jesus spoke to a woman at a remote water well after a long, dry, dusty walk under the hot
sun. His friends (disciples) had gone to a village to find some food, and possibly liquid refresh-
ment (may have been a skin of wine!).
He asked her for some water. Now this isn’t too strange to us – she probably had the
equipment to draw up water that Jesus didn’t. But it was strange in that time – she was an
unknown foreigner, from a people that were hostile to Jesus’ people, the Jews. However Jesus
knew that this woman was thirsty, and not just for the cool, refreshing water in the well they
stood next to.
She was thirsty for life, real life that refreshed and energises. Jesus spoke to her about ‘living
water’, a source of life that invigorates and enlivens those who find it. She leapt at such an
idea – who wouldn’t! Her thirst went much deeper than rehydration of her body, her soul was
spiritually parched. Her people tried to worship the living God of the Jews but were blocked
from the place of worship (the Temple of Jerusalem). Now here was a man who said that a
time was coming where she could worship this God at any time, in any place – and in fact this
God was present right before her!
You can find out yourself what happened next, and how this woman and her whole
community was transformed, just from a chance encounter by a well on a hot, Palestinian
day. To make it easy, you can go to www.biblegateway.com and type in “John 4” in the
search bar, and read it for yourself.
Many are thirsty in our world today due to constant busy-ness, social commitments,
responsibilities and relationships. We find ourselves addicted to screens and social media, over
-committing to a broad range of groups, or seeking an ‘escape’. Our souls are thirsty and
need constant rehydration to stay lively and energetic.
For Christians, the living water for our souls is the Holy Spirit of God, promised through faith in
the man-of-God who stood at the well on that hot day, and died and rose again because of
the obstruction of our souls from the living God. We invite you to hear the words that the
woman at the well heard, and to be transformed through Jesus, just as she was, amongst the
people of the Strathfieldsaye Community Church. You’re invited!
Rev. Steve Weickhardt.
Minister – Strathfieldsaye Community Church
Check out our new website! www.strathfieldsayechurch.com.au or ‘Like’ us on Facebook.
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Community News
Community Gamelan group Mugi Rahayu is your local gamelan (Javanese music and dance) group. We are from Eppalock and we practice weekly and perform at various cultural events and fund-raisers around the district. No experience required and it’s free.
New members Welcome
Practice every Sunday 2:00 pm at 101 Carneys Rd, Eppalock.
Contact Nita or Aaron phone: 54392678 email: [email protected]
Poo Pile!
Need manure for your garden! Bags available from out the front of
125 Axe Creek Rd at $2.00 each or phone
54393144 for a trailer load at $10-$15.00 per load.
email us at [email protected]
The Strathfieldsaye Community Church has a hall available for hire for small to
medium size groups with heating, kitchen facilities and toilets all under the same roof,
and plenty of parking.
Contact details are on the sign on the front of our Church at 920 Wellington Street,
Strathfieldsaye. Please note that no alcohol is permitted.
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Virtual hide and seek
Kids will love this game because it's so fun
to imagine hiding in places they normally
wouldn't hide in. Great game to keep the
kids entertained.
Activity:
In this imaginary hide and seek game, your
children pick a place inside your house to
hide, and imagine they are there.
They can imagine hiding anywhere in the
house no matter what size it is.
The others in the car ask questions that can
be answered with Yes or No.
When someone guesses where the imagi-
nary hiding place is, the game finishes and
they start again.
via Kidspot.com.au
Q. Using only addition, how can you add
eight 8's to get the number 1,000?
A. 888 +88 +8 +8 +8 =1,000
Q. The ages of a father and son add up to
66. The father's age is the son's age re-
versed. How old could they be?
A. There are three possible solutions for this:
the father-son duo could be 51 and 15
years old, 42 and 24 years old or 60 and 06
years old.
Q. What weighs more - a pound of iron or a
pound of feathers?
A. Both would weigh the same - come on,
a pound remains a pound, irrespective of
the object!
Q. If a rooster laid 13 eggs and the farmer
took eight of them and then another roost-
er laid 12 eggs and four of them were rot-
ten, how many of the eggs were left?
A. Roosters don't lay eggs!
Kids Corner
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Photography nature hunt for kids
This nature hunt is full of great ideas for a photo nature hunt. Kids will be amused for ages, off on
their photo nature hunt. Using their camera, iPod or phone to capture images as part of the
nature hunt challenge.
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