General News
7 November, 2022
Paul and Julie retire
PAUL and Julie Davis waved goodbye to the Tarnagulla Post Office last week. Their handover of the business to Mary Wollmering brought a close to almost 28 years in the town. They have moved to Bendigo where Paul will continue his involvement with the...
PAUL and Julie Davis waved goodbye to the Tarnagulla Post Office last week.
Their handover of the business to Mary Wollmering brought a close to almost 28 years in the town.
They have moved to Bendigo where Paul will continue his involvement with the ex-service community assisting veterans and Julie has already volunteered at a community house and op-shop.
Grandchildren duties and overseas travel are also on the list for Julie and Paul who had been actively involved in Tarnagulla orgisanisations.
Both were members of the town’s fire brigade, Paul also serving nine years as secretary.
Paul had terms as president with the school council and Loddon Tourism and was a project leadership group member of resilience action plan project completed in 2020.
The group defined the community vision as: “The Tarnagulla community of the future will be different. Together we will work towards developing and sustaining a thriving town.
“We will have a strong social culture built on a diverse and connected population representing and welcoming peoples of all ages, status, ethnicities and interests.
“We will have a beautiful town with a sustainable economy built on local agriculture, businesses, clubs, organisations and tourism. To be resilient we will have developed the necessary capabilities to confidently address our future.”
Julie and Paul were also members of Inglewood Lions, Paul serving as president and secretary and Julie as treasurer.
And Paul has been a member of Inglewood and Districts Health Services community advisory committee.
In the 1990s, they hosted Lions exchange students for short visits from Japan.
Through the Southern Cross Student Exchange program, they hosted Jan Angerstein from Germany and Asbjorn Neilsen from the Netherlands each for 12 months who would travel daily to Maryborough for school.
Paul said they remained in
regular contact Jan and Asbjorn who had enjoyed their time in Tarnagulla as teenagers.
In recent years Paul has been part of lobbying for improved mobile phone reception and NBN connections in the town.
And this year, he organised the town’s first ANZAC Day
dawn services, something Paul says he will continue to assist with in coming years.
As Paul and Julie headed to retirement last week, there was another changing of the guard - there’s also a new post office dog.
Chase is heading to new digs
with Julie and Paul while Bean has made the trip from Drummond North with Mary who had owned a nursery in Kyneton for six years before coming to Tarnagulla.
“I found this place and fell in love with it,” said the new post office owner.