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MEDIA RELEASE from Great Southern Development Commission

Weekend sport makes a strong contribution to sustaining regional towns, and Borden is ensuring that it is well placed to meet residents’ recreational needs.
Supported by $140,000 of Royalties for Regions funding through the Great Southern Development Commission (GSDC), the Borden Pavilion Committee is developing a $967,000 sporting precinct to encourage community building through recreation.

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In today’s life, when worry and tension all around, it can be challenging to maintain a positive attitude. What can we do?
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I have received my Japanese Maple seed.  All I need to do with these to get going is to trick them into thinking they are going though a cold northern winter.  This “stratification”  can be achieved by soaking the seed for 24 hours, allowing them to drain well, then placing them in a ziplock bag with some very slightly damp  peatmoss, or sphagnum peatmoss  (you need to squeeze out all the water as tightly as possible with your hands after wetting it).  This you place in the non-freezer section of your refrigerator for a couple of months (be patient!).  If you like tulips, now is the time to look for the new season bulbs, and put those in the fridge too (but never near ripening fruit).
Silver Birch do not need this “chilling” treatment.
I have found some seedlings under a Birch tree, and these I am going to put into my Bonsai pot now. Flywire over the big holes in the bottom of my very shallow bonsai pot, in go two of my little trees with bonsai potting mix.  The mix needs to mounded up out of the pot, and this will remind you to water very, very gently.    When my bonsai grows it’s first leaves, I am going to pull them off (gently), then the next flush of leaves will be smaller and in better proportion to my new miniature landscape.
Until next week
Cheers
Angela

As luxury accommodation providers, our aim is to give our guests the ultimate experience while in Albany.  We like to recommend places to eat, so we are trying the many restaurants in Albany.

Tonight we headed off to the ‘new’ Rustlers Steak House. The minute we walked through the door we were immediately impressed by the gorgeous surroundings. Rustlers have chosen their colours wisely and used the space well of what used to be a Health Club. (more…)

We went on long beach walk today from Ledge Beach to Gull Rock.Gull Rock Beach named of course, because of the large number of Gulls found on the rock just off shore, one of whom Captain Kalgan thinks might have been Jonathan Livingstone! Gull Rock is 26k East of Albany. The water was a turquoise colour and we were tempted to jump in. Albany has some of the most stunning and pristine beaches in Australia if not the world. There are beaches for fishing, snorkelling, swimming, surfing and body boarding. Stay at HideAway Haven while in Albany and enjoy some time at the beach. We have facilities for washing bathers and towels at the end of a day at the beach.

Ledge Beach

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I can’t resist telling you all about the latest success of our Ringwould Cendre, it has won a Gold Medal at the Royal Melbourne Show!!

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Probably in my case it’s more exciting, and it has been going on for months.

Can you imagine what it is like to get all these little bags, some not so little bags and boxes, given to you on a regular bases, well I do, and it is very exciting.

Majority of people will think I am strange, different or straight out crazy, yes some of it is true, but I don’t mind as I continue to collect all my treasures given to me so generously. (more…)

The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Seminar was held on the 7th October 2009 in Mount Barker. The seminar was designed to provide land managers, local councils, small business operators and residents with the latest information and background on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, which may have a major impact on and opportunities for the local economy in the Great Southern. (more…)

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