Seasons Greetings from Gippsland and The Mallee

Merry Christmas everyone

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To al those people that cellebrate Christmas, I hope your time over the holiday season is relaxing and enjoyable. Spare a thought for those people away from home, perhaps in hospital, overseas as part of the deployed forces or at work in a mine.

Christmas is a time when Christians remember the birth of Christ in a small stable in Bethlehem. Surrounded by animals in a cot with straw, the child called Jesus safe in his mothers arms.

Christmas has special meaning for many people. Two of my favourite places are shown above. The interior of St Paul’s Cathedral, Sale where as a young person I served on Christmas day at the altar. The other is the Uniting Church in Hopetoun where Christmas 2011 will be a special day and I send my best wishes.

Peter F Hughes

East Gipplsand

The Learmonth Mystery

Gatekeepers House Springvale Farm December 2011

http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2010/08/31/2998378.htm

Humanities

In a Microsfoft Word document, answer these questions, produce maps and write a narrative discourse.

What is the History of Lake Learmonth?
Who were the early settlers?
What was life like at Learmonth in 1870 when the Kelly boys were alive?
Why did volcanoes play such a large part in the history of the area?
What evidence is there today of volcanoes in the area?
Map – find a great map of the Pyrennes Region.

Narrative – write an account of life in the early days as a farm hand. Describe the duties you would perform on a property called Springvale Farm, Learmonth.

Yamaha goes to a Wedding

How does my Yamaha handle a Wedding?

It didn’t FAZER.

Goodbye Big ‘Artie’ Beetson – Queensland Legend.

Our Legend of Origin passes away Thursday 1 December.

Farewell to a Murri who change Queensland Rugby League forever.

Gone too young.

www.goldcoast.com.au/…/goodbye-big-artie

Premier Anna Bligh today said it was a sad day for Queensland and the nation.

“Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this time as they deal with his sudden death — which has come as a shock to us all,” Ms Bligh said.

It would be an understatement to say Arthur Beetson was a favourite son in Queensland.

“The man fondly known as ‘Big Artie’ could walk into any pub in the Sunshine State and be mobbed — such was his status.

“Everyone wanted to shake his hand, pat him on the back, and hear his stories.”

Queensland Sport Minister Phil Reeve said: “Arthur Beetson’s football career is the stuff of legend — how Roma’s teenage five-eighth became the greatest creative ball-playing front-rower in the history of the game.

“With a rare creative instinct, a free spirit, a desire to `play the game’, Beetson knocked down the conventional role of the front rower, and rebuilt it to his own rules.

“His opposition team members knew he could make the big tackle, make the great run or unload a great ball, his talents were almost unlimited.

“This larger than life character was a great supporter of the Indigenous All Stars and the recently instituted Queensland Murri Carnival.

“He recently assisted Brothers St Brendons in their bid to recover after this year’s floods.

“I will never forget the day I went to the first state of origin with my father and was overwhelmed when I heard the heard the crowd cheering Artie Artie Artie,” Mr Reeves said.