Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
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Pilates for a cause By Dongyun Kwon A pilates instructor and her client are pulling together to host a special pilates session for a good cause. Yarra Valley-based pilates instructor Vicky Kamakaris and her client Penny Napoleone both have lost a parent to Parkinson’s disease. As Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month (April) is just around the corner, the pair came up with an idea to support Shake It Up, a notfor-profit foundation dedicated to funding groundbreaking Parkinson’s research to slow, stop and cure the condition. Ms Napoleone said pilates is ideal for sufferers of the disease if they can manage it. “Exercise is the only known activity to assist in slowing the progression of Parkinson’s disease,” she said. Ms Kamakaris’ dad passed away from Parkinson’s in 2022 after battling with it for 15 years and she said her family couldn’t visit her dad, who was staying in a nursing home, for the last two years of his life because of the Covid lockdown. Turn to page 8 for more
Yarra Valley-based pilates instructor Vicky Kamakaris (left) and her client Penny Napoleone. (Supplied)
Taking the wheel By Oliver Winn
more people to help support it,” ex-Warburton Waterwheel chairman John Ridley said. The Waterwheel’s current business structure means it can’t apply for government grants, which significantly limits the income it can generate and stops it from reaching its sustainability goals. One potential move flagged at the meeting was to change to an incorporated association which would allow the Waterwheel to apply for grants.
Mr Ridley said the strong show of community support demonstrated the value the community places in the Warburton Waterwheel to the council. “We might be able to persuade council that they don’t need to go to tender, although probably under the regulations and rules that govern councils and their property, they might be obliged [to],” Mr Ridley said. Turn to page 10 to read more
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With the lease of the Warburton Waterwheel set to expire in May 2026, the community of Warburton gathered to discuss the future of the historic monument. With a crowd of just under 90 people turning up to put forward their ideas, Warburton Waterwheel coordinator Michele Ousterhoudt said the response from the community left her
“absolutely overjoyed”. At the meeting, potential goals for the Warburton Waterwheel were identified alongside some problems needing to be addressed. Some suggested the Warburton Waterwheel bring back its guided walking tours, while the need for more volunteers was flagged. “I’m really hoping that out of those 90 people [who attended the meeting], there are some who are willing to put in half a day... because we need
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