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🌟 Exciting News for Mount Helena! 🌟

The Mount Helena Residents and Ratepayers Progress Association Inc is thrilled to announce that we've secured a $1939 grant from the Community Bank Mundaring - Bendigo. This generous funding will be used to purchase three flag poles for Elsie Austin Oval.


These flag poles will play a vital role in enhancing our ANZAC Day Services, as well as other community and sporting events throughout the year.


A huge thank you to Bendigo Bank for their continued commitment to our community. Their slogan, "The Better Big Bank," truly resonates as they consistently donate their profits back into the local community, making projects like ours possible.


Together, we're building a stronger, more vibrant Mount Helena!





 
 
 

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What is a Whim?

The Whim was used for log haulage in the early days of the South-west timber industry including the Perth Hills.
 
The whim axle was manoeuvred midway over a felled log. With the aid of a swampers spoon, the chain was passed under the lof and hooked onto the axle. The whim beam, as a lever, was pulled down using horses and secured to the log, thus raising the axle and the log for easier haulage. A team of eight horses then hauled the raised log to the steam saw mill. The whim revolutionised the early timber industry and was used until the advent of motorised tractors.


The whim has been honoured and recognised by the Mount Helena Residents and Ratepayers Progress Association as a part of their logo and name of our biannual 'Whim' Festival.

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Photo: BULLOCK TEAM; LION MILL, MT HELENA, c.1882 - 1898 - Shire of Toodyay’s photographic collection

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​Police (not an emergency) - 131 444
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Volunteer Fire Brigade - 9572 1414

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Cr John Daw - 0437 997 325

Cr Neridah Zlatnik - 0438 943 782

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Shire President

Paige McNeil -0414 799 659

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