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Welcome to Inglewood  - there's more than you think!

Gold, blue eucy, history and architecture, exercise or just some time to relax!   

Things to see and do! 

 

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 Autumn - Preparing for the crops.

 

 

 

 Home and Business Security

 

Unfortunately  there is an active thief operating in the surrounding towns and Inglewood with break-ins to businesses and homes.  Cash money and valuable items and tools have been stolen.

It is very important to secure your valuable possessions, put tools away,  lock your house and sheds and report any suspicious behaviour to Crimestoppers. If you have dead locks installed,  then use them.  

Inglewood Police:   5438 3200

Crimestoppers:    1800 333 000    or     http://www.vic.crimestoppers.com.au/cs/home.jsp

 Emergency               Call 000 

 

Vic Police are  investigating and we hope the person(s) is apprehended very soon. 

   A bit of a laugh!   check this out.

This is a great video. To launch a new TV channel in Belgium, they put a red button in the middle of a quiet town square with the words "Push to add drama". Someone did.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316AzLYfAzw>

 Flood Support Program 

A program for the support of those impacted by the Victorian Floods.

Inglewood and Districts Health Service Flood Support program is designed to support people suffering the long lasting effects of floods in the Loddon Shire. The   program provides support for individuals, families, business owners and farmers.  This program is still being run as people can still be suffering the long term effects from the floods.  Recent rainfall around the Loddon Shire can also be a trigger that can cause people to feel distressed or anxious.

Please do not hesitate to contact an IDHS Flood Support Worker for assistance.  We can assist you to access any type of advice: personal, financial or business. 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Check out the brochure that provides

 

 Australia Day Awards

Congratulations to Loddon 2012 Citizen of the Year, Mr Paul Haw of Boort.   The award was announced at the various Australia Day events throughout the Shire.

Paul is actively involved in numerous community groups in Boort and the surrounding district.             

It may not be widely known  that Paul assisted the  Inglewood Eucy Museum project by growing the seedlings for the blue eucy plantation.  These are now becoming really established and getting up to good schrub height.

Our congratulations to Paul!

 

 Youth support

Some kids can be under a lot of pressure!  Decisions about the future, school stuff you may not know about,  holiday boredom or struggling to find that perfect job!    A fantastic new site is up and running for the 16-25 year olds. 

Tune In Not Out  is 24hr TV for life's challenges, such as alcohol, drugs, mental health, exams and relationships.

 Check it out!  Pass it on!  Spread the word! 

It may help someone you know, and you may never know how.   

  TINO  and thanks to the team that put it together!!

About Inglewood

 

Situated 199 km from Melbourne on the Calder Highway, this historic gold mining town presents a vision of the past. Inglewood forms part of the famous ‘Golden Triangle' which encompasses some of the richest alluvial goldfields in the world. The last great Victorian gold rush occurred here in the 1860's, bringing prosperity and a burgeoning new life to a rural community, clearing the land of mallee scrub and producing wool for the young colony and for export to England.

Gold was like a magnet and miners flocked to Inglewood from all corners of the globe. A few miners' tents rapidly became a tent town of thousands. Inglewood became known as ‘the city in the scrub'.  In the third year of its existence Inglewood became a municipality, the Borough of Inglewood. Such was the wealth taken from the earth and rock, that the tent town became a community of substance, buildings of timber and brick; imposing structures, several of which stand today.

The gold was eventually extracted to economic limits and the miners departed. A new, though less profitable industry helped the town survive. Eucalyptus oil, first recognised for its wide ranging qualities from the earliest years of colonial occupation, was produced in quantity in the district. The Blue Mallee, locally known as 'Blue Eucy ', which produced an oil of exceptional quality, grows in abundance in the area.  These days Inglewood is a service town for the surrounding rural districts and smaller communities.

Stay a while and you will be able to explore the town with he range of activities listed on the link below.  These can bring the history to life .

Have an enjoyable time and come back to visit Inglewood again.

           

Gold, blue eucy, history and architecture, exercise or just some time to relax!   

Things to see and do! 

 

What's the weather forecast?  >more 

   

One of the reasons it's called the "city in the scrub".