Tuesday February 13th. Tom will officially launched the "Dunolly a Great Little Town" DVD.

Dunolly is a small country community 45 minutes from Bendigo in Central Victoria. With funding from the State Government's "Make it Happen in Provincial Victoria" program and the local Central Goldfields Shire, film maker and resident Philip Ashton  produced the DVD to entice tourists, new residents and business people to the relaxed lifestyle of the old gold town.

The whole town photo taken during last years celebrations to commemorate 150 years since the first local gold rush

I was up in the Sunshine coast doing a big breakfast, a community thing, that was sold out. There were people sitting on the floor! While I was up there I was asked to do a fund raiser lunch for Lifeline.

I was there with 9 other people and we had a beautiful meal in one of the top restaurants in the Sunshine coast,  a top chef – seven course meal, not big but wonderful. The ten of us talked about life, living and opportunities and talked a lot about Lifeline.

At the end of it all they brought out this massive oversized cheque out and they got me to sign it. The luncheon raised a thousand dollars. It was quite a mix of people a minister, a lawyer, local Lifeline manager, an electrician – all different sorts of people who were willing to put their hands in their pockets for Lifeline. I’m always pleased to promote the good that Lifeline does because I wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for Lifeline.

Lifeline link 

The Beechworth Bakery Award
Swinburne University of Technology, Lilydale

The Beechworth Bakery Award is an award to build recognition in the community of learning difficulties and to celebrate the contribution to the community of those who have learning difficulties.

The award was launched in collaboration with  The Beechworth Bakery and Swinburne University, Higher Education Lilydale, Learning Difficulties Project.