History Week this year will be celebrated by the Gumeracha and District History Centre, Inc. by an ‘Open Day’ to be held on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008, from 10am to 7pm. Anyone interested in accessing the Centre’s resources for family or general local history will be welcome to attend.

During the open day Volunteers will be in attendance to assist with enquiries. The Centre is located in Albert Street (Main Street), Gumeracha next to the library. A basic resource for family history research is found in cemetery records and the Centre holds burial records and cemetery maps and photographs of existing memorials for the area.

by Kendrea Rhodes

Silver, silver, silver, silver, bronze, bronze … No, its not the Olympics, but in the beer brewing world it may as well be!

The annual Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA) were held on March 27th in Melbourne and Lobethal Brewers, Phil Jones (right) and Alistair Turnbull (far right), decided to enter with only 10 months experience of brewing at the Lobethal Bierhaus. They certainly didn’t expect the tremendous reception their new venture received!

With the cooler Autumn School holidays here, a tourist attraction at Littlehampton has a special treat for visitors, which is guaranteed to amuse both children and adults alike. Platform 1 Heritage Farm Railway has a sheep called “Big Ears’ (pictured right), that runs alongside visitors whilst they travel on the train.

‘Big Ears” started to display this unusual behaviour as a lamb whilst she was being hand reared by the owner of Platform 1, Mr. Glenn Liebelt. Now an adult sheep, she makes sure that every train load of visitors are personally escorted around her paddock. Visitors can pat and feed “Big Ears” as they travel along on the train.