The piano goes to a new home.

Piano to get a new lease of life!

At the top end of the Hazelwood South Hall there is a small purpose built stage.  On the stage is the old out of tune run down piano.

Today this piano has been removed to go to a good home.  The new owners are not paying anything for the Piano.  Instead they are refurbishing the piano, then getting it tuned.  When it is finished the partner will be playing it as she is a professional opera piano player.

We wish them well in their care of the Piano that has basically sat in the corner for nearly fifty years.




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Equipment finding a good home.

The tents are gradually being upgraded.  The old canvas tents and the light weight tents without poles have been given away to a camp facility.  The new owners will be mending, fixing and using these tents.

We are happy that they are doing the refurnishing and treatment needed to keep these tents in good order.  Especially since neither of the leaders here can breath in the chemicals that are used nor have the actual cash themselves to part with in order to do these things as needed.

At a later date the rest of the old equipment in the camp room will be gone through as well. Most not being suitable for the young girls of today to learn and practice with... according to the years that the Guides have been saying this same thing.



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Things to keep an eye out for when cleaning the inside of the hall.

Using the Hazelwood South Hall means you leave it better than when you found it.

Using an sanctioned cleaning substance for the floor.

Rubbish lurking in corners

Cigarette butts that have snuck in and are hiding.

Cigarette smoke 

Stale air.

Dishes -was dry then put away.

Keys not returned

Decorations and other rubbish not taken home to your place.

Unflushed toilets, glass pieces outside the hall.

Uninvited guests.

Blue tack and drawing pins not removed.

Rubbish not sorted out and taken to your home.

The earth being burnt or dug up.

Tent pets in the ground.

Sticky substances on the wooden floor.

Someones clothes left behind.

Electrical cords or equipment not being replaced.

Broken windows.

Plants being ripped up.

Bricks having been removed or thrown.

loud Music and neighbors complaints

Hazelwood South Hall: Hazelwood Honor Roll

Hazelwood South Hall: Hazelwood Honor Roll.

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Create the meeting with what is at hand

Is the effect what the hall is designed for?

Table setting are a large part of 'creating the atmosphere' .

Intrinsically people behaviour matches the degree of pomp and ceremony that a setting is catering for. The wrong setting effects the atmosphere and thus the outcome.

When I entered a reception hall at Caulfield, Melbourne, I was impressed at the table layouts.  People who came to the gathering did dress 'upwards' to meet the occasion.

When the table settings are average for a higher class of speakers, guests and complimentary meal style the behaviour may tone down but the 'dress' sense carries thought to the behaviour expected.

Although the Hazelwood South Hall has the long tables available the legs are in need of repair. There are chairs and long stools.  The chair numbers are down due to the thief's.   When used in a setting of adults the Long wooden benches are not applicable to adult usage as the adult in the middle has to climb over their seat  or disturb others just to get back to their spot.  Lifting their legs to climb back into the spot vacated is a real lowering of table conversation!

However that said when the setting is for children these social etiquette rules have not been established.  The long wooden benches are

• designed for the children's usage at the tables.
• To be placed around the walls of the Hazelwood South Hall.
• Placed in a herring bone situations for public access at public meetings. 

 Predominately the Hazelwood South Hall is designed for children's use.

Anyone wanting to use the hall for 'other than children' settings must supply their own matching tables and chairs.  Thus the effect that they want to convey will be both effective and efficient. Meeting their needs.





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Seen from the road

Encouraging a more private 'Back Yard" at the hall.

When I am driving along Tramway road [towards Churchill] I glance to my Right and check the shrub growth.  Yes the shrubs appear to be growing.

I have four more shrubs to place along this 'fence' line. Two are Calistomons.  Calistamons apparently draw up more water than the weeping willows.  These two will be idea for this area as it always has been more wet that other areas around.

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Try again with the shrubs for a fence line

.Where did the shrubs I planted go again?.

I knew the grass was getting long.  I was to mow around the shrubs that I had planted on Thursday.  That is as soon as I had time off work and could also get the lawn mower and clippers down to the Hazelwood South Hall.

however I turned up on Wednesday last week to begin raking under the shrubs next to the gun clubs fence line and noticed that the shrubs and grass had all been mowed down.  There were no sticks, plants or anything except mowed grass.  The Calistamon that was so beautifully flowering was gone as well.

The next night at a Gipp's Guide meeting a discussion took place.  I asked for help in lining a next shrub bed with bricks carried over from the "brickery'  I had noted that the earth area that some party goers had lit a fire in was not mowed over.  Instead this eyesore was carefully mowed around.  The Brickery was left too.  Logically If there are bricks the lawn mower man will not tamper with them.  However if there is obviously long grass in one area strip then by all means mow it over.  There could be something of value there! This time I intend to really well bang in the wooden poles deep into the ground.  Lace the area with read and white warning tape [means do not enter this area].  The new shrubs will have already been planted to make use of this rainy period that we seem to be experiencing.

So in two Thursday's time there will be bricks in place and hopefully time to rake up the leaves from the other shrubs and mulch the new shrub area as well.

Creating a fence line

On a boundary fence line we planted.

Between the Hazelwood South Hall back yard and the Hazelwood South reserve there are young shrubs being transplanted.  Three years ago the Farmer planted small shrubs along her fence line.  These are growing beautifully. 

But the problem of water absorption and over enthusiastic Reserve users inhibits the use of the back of the Hazelwood South Hall for anythings that the users of the Hall would like to do.  Traffic from the arterial road [Tramway Road] can look directly into the area.  No privacy is gained here.

So far there are ten little shrubs planted.  Soon to have more smaller growing but bushier types of shrubs  around the other planted shrubs. 

I think there is also a Gum tree within the plantings to go out.  We will see tomorrow.

'of the monument' are tricky little words.

Hazelwood Honour Roll custodians . 

With this tactic in mind the last three words in the paragraph ... "of this monument" bear significant meaning.

"Another agenda item of 'historical' interest concerned the Hazelwood Honor Roll.  CDCA sought advice from local stakeholders abs some of our knowledgeable local history sources regarding the location and condition of this item of historic interest.  We are informed that it is in good condition and on view in the Hazelwood South Hall, where our local Guides act as careful custodians of this monument."

The article that this paragraph that this article comes from is printed in The Churchill  and District News of  Issue Number 81 - 11 MARCH  2010 page 4 - paragraph ten.

Where does the waste go?

To the users of the Hazelwood South Hall please be respectful.

After using either the Hazelwood [South] Hall or the Reserve leaving rubbish around the either is just not on. Cleaning it up takes a longer time than not putting it there in the first place.  So remove the dead balloons, tin cans, tent pegs, plastic bags, cigarette butts and anything else that you happen to see along the way.

If you happen to be just there when the rubbish jumps out at you there are rubbish bins that you may place the rubbish in.

When you use the Hazelwood [South] Hall it is requested that you take your own rubbish home.

The yellow rubbish bin goes out every two weeks on a Wednesday evening for a Thursday pick up.

In regards to alcohol and cigarettes.  Being a Government owned building and reserve there is no cigarettes or alcohol on Crown Land. Therefore why would there be litter? Yeah. Right.

However when you do see these things please dispose of them carefully.  Bottles and tin into the yellow lid bins. Butts into the red bin.





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Recycling the old bricks

The bricks from the external toilet block that  was pulled down at the back of the Hazelwood [South] Hall has had a fair few different uses. Of the uses that we know of the bricks and rubble have been utilized in the making of:-

            BBQ's,

            Pathways,

            Compost holders,

            Garden bed walls, straight ones, round ones.

            Walkways,

            Having under clothes lines so that feet do not get sloshed on while getting in the washing.

Galvanized water pipes.

With very old fragile galvanized water pipes once they are broken there is the major job of finding out where the water pipes go and trying then to find some way of capping them.

Why change the locks occurs

Locked up once again.

Someone/s kept leaving the doors and cupboards open, the toilets a mess and dishes in the sink.

Solution : Change the locks.  So David Ellis went down and did just that.

All keys to the Hazelwood [South] Hall were called in so that a register of keys was taken.  The Small Bore rifle club handed in their key which they had just been issued.  In exchange they received a new key.

The Churchill Soccer Club had their new Pavilion and Club Change rooms.  Both these building had toilets.

Once the locks were changed two things happened.

1. The first being that the Churchill Soccer Club complained of not having access to the toilets for their visitors.  
2. The second was that a spare set of keys mysteriously turned up in the District leaders [Marlene Ellis] letter box.  A previous Hazelwood [South ] Hall booking person was seen opening Marlenes letter box and leaving the keys .  Keys being the only things in the letter box when the letter box was subsequently opened.

The story behind the removal of the external brick toilets.

When you enter some where made of brick and there are large cracks enabling you to see right through the double brick layers you just know not to sneeze or the walls may come tumbling down.  Removing the old brick external toilet should have been easy right?

Think again.

There was no money to pay for do anything of the sort. And there were no people left in the Support Group for assistance.  So the Hazelwood District leader had to wait for donations.

A parent paid for, and was subsequently paid back, the removal of the electric light that shone above the toilet block.

Then a plumber friend of a leaders changed minimal price for the capping off of the water pipes.  Which, with no plans available, no one knew where the water pipes were. The water pipes appear underground, from somewhere, and are about 10 cm away from the Gun Club side of the old toilet block slab. Being made of galvanized pipe and also being fifty years plus old these pipes are fragile.  The plumber warned of not disturbing the clay around them in any way.

For those using the Hazelwood [South] Hall  there was now no need as the extension build in the early 1990's meant that.  Allocated people had the keys and were registered. The small bore (22) Rifle club toilets had been given a key when it was realised they had no toilets of their own.  Instead embers used the dingly old external toilets.

The Churchill Soccer club were annoyed with the change of the Hazelwood [South] Hall keys'
It was concluded that the Churchill Soccer Club no longer needed to use these facilities or the Hazelwood [South] Hall internal toilets as they had two operating sets of their own

The external toilets were finally pulled down by two men and their four wheel drive

The farmer lady behind the hall complained as the stack was not to go near her fence line.

Another three men on day then stacked the bricks up.  Mostly into one big pile.  The job was not able to be completed as the temperature was in the over 45 degree Cel.range.

A week or so later two others went down and were stacking the bricks.

These three actions cost over $1,500.00. and the job was still not done.
The District Leader had some wonderful uses for the recycled bricks.  plans were tentatively drawn up to be presented to the Department of Sustainablity and Environment and the Latrobe City Council. There is so much red tape that the brick were being ignores=d and once again were posing an Occupational Health and Safety issue.

Then came the people who threw down the bricks and generally destroyed all the work that was done to the pile.  Once Churchill Soccer mum came up and apologized as her child was one of the ones responsible.  The reason given for the action was that the father had left home.  He was one who stacked the bricks. Were the bricks picked up..."only if you pay us."


Since that time the brick pile has gone gradually down. People have been assisting with the removal of the bricks for a few years now.

Standards for the clean presentation of the Hazelwood ]South] Hall

A general rule of thumb
when having used the Hazelwood [South] Hall.  Leave the area cleaner, and in better shape, than when you took on the keys.

Smoking. 

The hall is a Federal Government Building.  Therefore no smoking in or around the Hazelwood [South}Hall. for at least five (5) meters. Therfore there will be no smoke butt rubbish to pick up will there!

Alcohol

The hall is not a licenced venue. Guides Australia has very specific Guidelines re alcohol and alcohol around minors.  Follow them.

Rubbish bins.

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  There are two rubbish bins one red lid and one yellow lid.  
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  Remember the rubbish your use of the Hazelwood [South] Hall makes YOU take home with you..
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  Should you be passing the Hazelwood [South] Hall on the Wednesday before the Recycle bin [Wednesday Evening] please place the yellow bin out for collection - if it needs emptying.
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  The red bin has it's own collection pick up different from the general collection days. So this red one stays there.

Entrances

•  Before:


• Easiest access is from the front.  Depending on the reserve ground there is a access via the Reserve side door.  Either via the pathway or by lifting items up a level from a parked car.  Not recommended.  The back door has steps leading directly to the kitchen.  Be aware of the dampness on the ground both behind the kitchen and especially on the Reserve. be careful -Bogging may occur on the reserve.
• During
• All entrances/exits need to be clear of obstructions (litter, bricks, rubbish bins.) at all times.There must a direct easily recognised escape pathway provided.

• After:
• All entrances to be cleared of rubbish, rubbish bins unwanted rubbish and items.

Main Hall

• The Hazelwood [South} Hall's floor is a polished wood surface.  There is to be no scratches or scuff marks made into this floor.
• so lift furniture, boxes - do not drag it.  If the furniture or container is too heavy then have a large piece of carpet (face down) under the furniture / container and move the item that way.
• Cleaning of the floor involves sweeping and then mopping the surface.  No other cleaners are to be used except these :  1 tablespoon Metholated spirits mixed into the water in the map bucket..  No soapy substances allowed.  At all.
• Mop does not have to be wet, wet when going over the wooden floor surface.
• Bucket in kitchen, Mop should be behind the door, Metholated spirits in the first hallway cupboard.
• Leave the mop to dry out so that any residule water goes into a bucket.  Not back onto a floor surface.

Windows

•  Before:
• .Unlock and position hands on the window frame...Not the Glass. 
• Open window carefully.
• C.R.C., or similar, will assist with the window opening ability.
• After:
• These are all to be closed and locked. You may have to push the window frames from the outside of the hall while someone else inside locks the window locks.
• New damage report on any damage straight away.
• Not on usage report any previous damage.

 Curtains.

• Before:.
• Check the condition of these.
• After:
• `Pull over the netting curtains.
• Leave the curtains in a tidy state.
• Report / note any rips, tears or fair wear and tear on usage report.

Toilets

•  Before:.
• Flush all toilets as you check the bathrooms for spare toilet paper availability and hand towels.
• In the males one turn on the Urinal tap for the usage time as the urinal is designed to keep flushing there is a waste of water when not in use.
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  • Have you lined the rubbish bins.
• After:
• Turn off the urinal in the male toilets.
• Flush all touilets before leaving.
• Wash out hand basins and down bench tops.
•  Tip contents of rubbish bin into appropriate bags so that you take the rubbish home to be disposed off.
• Replace toilet paper and hand towels before during and as event requires.
•  Note in usage report the need / quantity of toilet paper and hand towels used.
• Clean walls where necessary.
• Clean floors by first sweeping the mopping them
•  Refer to Floor care section.

Toilet Hallway

•  Before:.
• Sweep and mop down as needed.
• After:
• If cupboard opened and contents used tidy cupboard shelves.
• Not what needs replacing. Put this in usage report.
• Close and lock cupboards.
• Sweep and mop floor.  Refer to floor care section.

Kitchen

• Before
• Are the fridges clean and aired.  Turned on at wall socket ( in hall way) and in kitchen (Above the head level on the Churchill and Morwell side of the Kitchen)
• The urn has been filled turned on and water boiled in preparation for use.
• Have you lined the rubbish bins.
• Benches and table tops clean and presentable.
• During

• Open the swing doors and leave them open.
• As you go along clean, wash and put away the dishes.
• Hot water is in the Urn...when you refill it up.
• All tea towels must be supplied by you.  Take them home please.

• After
• Remove all of your rubbish for disposal away from the Hall.
• Cleaning of rubbish bins should be easy as you have used liners for the bins.
• Benches and table tops to be clean.
• Hot Urn water to be used for mopping of the floor.
• Empty the dirty water away from the kitchen area. 
• Leave no dishes, dirty or otherwise, on any surface.  
• Place all equipment cleaned and away ...where it came from.

Cleaning equipment.

• The cleaning equipment is found in two places.  The kitchen behind the door has the long handled items, bucket and brush and shovel.
• The first cupboard in the hallway has the cleaning supplies, toilet paper and hand towels.

Switch Box/ meter box

• Before:.
• Check the electrical switch box is on. located in the front foyer for easy access.  Keep children away.
• After:
• Turning the switch box off at the end of use.  Turn only the bottom set of switches into the off position.

Cleaning on the outside

• Check all around the hall and on the reserve area that your party of people may have used.
• pick up all stray bottles, cans, smoke butts, balloon and ribbon pieces, pieces of paper, tinscell, decorations and other odd items. Throw these out.
• Is there any thing around the Hall and on the Reserve that may tempt someone to damage or destroy the hall and surrounding area.  Your responsibility to clean it away too.
• THANK YOU FOR THIS 

Return of the keys.

• The keys are not to be copied at all.
• Return and sign for the keys.

Keeping the Hazelwood South Halls exterior maintained.

Hazelwood [South] Hall will always need to be maintained. Maintenance costs both in time and cash. So every little bit of maintenance - both inside and out- has always been aprechiated over the years. So to are the donations, gifts and fundraising done with the Hazelwood [South] Hall in mind.

Raising the publics awareness of this Hall is a major concern. The public need to be aware of where this hall is, the significance of the Hall to the Hazelwood, Yinnar and Morwell Community, (now also the Churchill Community), and of course how to join into the Hazelwood and Churchill Girl Guide District membership enabling them the use of the Hazelwood [South] Hall as per lease agreement.

Orginially Hazelwood [South} Hall was a Community Hall. There was a Committee of Management that had all the users of the premises on board. Over the fifty plus years people have moved on from the area or interest has wained in what they have organised. During the 1990's the lease was altered by the then District Leaader.

General maintenance was completed with regular 'days' allotted. In todays society family members have difficulty allotting more time to external service unless there is something in it for them. This is not being selfish in out look, just reasonable for todays 'singular family Unit' life style.

Combating this should members of the Girl Guides wish to utilize the Hazelwood [South] Hall they must follow the District Guide lines relating to the lease and cleanliness agreements.

During the late 2000's a General Risk Analysis was created for the Hazelwood [South] Hall.

The Latrobe City Council and the Department of Sustainability would like yearly building reports submitted.

Hazelwood and Churchill Girl Guide District Guide lines relating to the lease agreement.

There has been trouble with maintanence and cleaning of the Hazelwood Hall Standards.

• A resolution of intended use must be noted in the Hazelwood and Churchill Girl Guide District minutes.
• Through District Team members reports and meetings.
• Through the Gipps Guides minutes.
• through the Leaders attending the District Leaders monthly Meetings.
• A booking must be made through the Booking person.
• If keys are needed for the Hall use they must be signed in and out for.
• A Risk Analysis must be made for that event.
• available to all using the hall.
• on line
• in folder at time of use.
• must be counter singed by Hazelwood and Churchill District Leader.
• A cleaning check list is to be used.  
• Emu bobs will be necessary both in and around the Hall.
• Any news releases to go via the Hazelwood and Churchill District leader before they are released.
• All photos of youth members at a Girl Guide activity are to be checked by Hazelwood and Churchill Girl Guide District Leader for current registration of that Girl Guide or a signed photo release form to be signed by parent/s or carer before releasing them.
• That when the intended use of the Hall is to raise funds for the Hazelwood [South] Hall all minutes, reports and money matters are to be through the auspisis of the Hazelwood and Churchill Girl Guide District. Therefore all corespondance must be handed to the Hazelwood and Churchill District Leader.

Why change the lease arrangements?

No records are easily found.

No one actually knows why the lease agreement was changed from a management committee to having the lease only under the Hazelwood Girl Guide District. Now known as the Hazelwood and Churchill Girl Guide District on the lease.

It is remembered that the Department of Sustainability and Environment was just one Government Department that had big changes occurring during this time.