A Perfect Antidote To World Affairs...

 Overwhelmed by the constant barrage of news?

Losing touch with your own personal happiness?

Feeling grim rather than gleeful?

Need a retreat from the madness?

We have the ONLY WAY OUT (for a few days at least)...Turn your vehicle of choice eastwards and head for Heavenly Beverley over the entirety of the Easter Weekend!

Easter would not be Easter in Heavenly Beverley without a exciting events and a smorgasbord of entertainment and activities.

Here is a short synopsis of our Easter Timeline -

• Beverley Station Arts PRESENTS the Beverley Art Prize and 56th Annual Art Exhibition, 17 - 27 April. Located in the Town Hall, visitors can view the Exhibition between 10am - 4pm on 17 April with the OFFICIAL OPENING 7pm - 10pm that evening. ALL WELCOME - $10 per adult, $5 under 18s.
• In addition, Beverley Station Arts are offering an Original Shane Moad painting you could WIN through their raffle. Tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5 at the Beverley CRC. The raffle will be DRAWN at the conclusion of the Easter Art Prize on 27 April.
  
• Beverley Station Artist-in Residence for Easter and the remainder of April is the fabulous Carollyn Rhodes-Thompson.
• The Lucky Find, our very own frock shop owned and operated by the irrepressible Kylie Alexis, will be OPEN over Easter - Thursday 17th and Friday 18th 10am - 4pm, Saturday 19th 9am - 4pm and Monday 21st 10am - 1pm.
• Beverley Lawn Tennis Club PRESENTS the 91st Annual Easter Tennis Tournament - Friday 18 April - Monday 21 April. Submit your entry by Friday 11 April. Their Sunday Sundowner (Tutus and Tiaras) will be catered by Baolicious Food Truck, Please indicate your attendance when registering or by emailing easterentries@beverleyltc@gmail.com
• The Beverley Lawn Tennis Club Canteen is open all weekend, bar from 11am Saturday/Sunday/Monday. Camping is also available close to the Tennis Club.
• Avondale Farm is OPEN on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 April. Avondale is located 6 kilometres out of Beverley on Waterhatch Road. The Visitors' Centre and the East End Gallery have maps.
• Also featuring at the Station on Saturday 19 April will be - the Easter Community Markets 8.30am - 12 noon, followed by the inarguable Beverley Folk Festival, blasting off at 3pm.  Enjoy four fantastic bands. Gates open 2.30pm, byo picnic and drinks and tickets available through the QR code in the April Beverley Blarney.
• Continuing entertainment will be at the East End Arts Precinct Easter Sundowner, 116 Vincent Street Beverley on Saturday 19 April, from 6pm. And remember, the East End Gallery is OPEN all Easter - from 11am - 5pm (except for the Saturday night Sundowner that will rock on until...?

 You all know the drill...

• Sausage sizzle from 6pm (ONLY $3). Donations to St Mary's Church Beverley restoration will also be gratefully accepted.
• LIVE music from 6.30pm (ish) or when our musicians arrive...as we don't pay them, we can't hold them for a starting time of this gig!
• Please bring a bottle and plate to share if possible.
• A chance to mingle with like-minded people with good food, great conversation and fantastic music
• If you are a musician yourself, please bring your voice or instrument with you and join in the fun!

 Additional Information -

 

•  One Tree Cafe, run entirely by volunteers, will open again on Sunday  20 April .For more information, please call Nicolette on 0419 194 420.

• Embark on a sentimental journey through Ferguson's Vintage Machinery Collection, open weekends @ 22 Hunt Road or by appointment on 9646 1034. 

• The Beverley Soaring Society continues to offer locals and visitors alike the opportunity of glorious glider flights with an Easter Regatta from April 18th to 21st, 2025 at the Beverley Airport.

•  The Dead Finish Museum, run by volunteers will be OPEN on Sunday 20 April between 11am - 3pm.

• The Beverley Community Garden will be OPEN Saturday morning 19 April. Located next to the RSL on Forrest Street. Once a disused drain, now a thriving and productive garden! Pick up a basket-full for only $10!

• The Red Vault Café is under new ownership and is promising innovations in decor and food. Open seven days a week

• The Beverley Bakery is able to provide guests with delicious taste sensations over Easter (except Good Friday and Easter Sunday).

•  The Dome servo is open 7 days a week (!) between 5am and 8pm for fuel, groceries, food, drinks, papers and other sundries. Dine in or take away. Good Friday hours may differ. 

• The Red Vault Cafe has currently not advertised its Easter hours. I would expect them to be CLOSED on Good Friday.
  

• The Freemasons Tavern will be open All Easter, except Good Friday.                                            

•  The Beverley IGA will ONLY BE OPEN ON EASTER SATURDAY UNTIL 12 noon. We are advising all visitors of this situation so they may be prepared for this circumstance.

• Do not forget to check out the Beverley Visitors Centre which is open Monday - Friday 9am - 4.30pm and Saturday 10am - 3pm. Now open some Sundays. All sorts of interesting history, gizmos and gifts available.Tell them that Kate sent you

• Discover your inner child at the Moort Wabiny playground and skate park. Moort Wabiny caters for all ages from littlies to grown-ups and has shade, BBQs, seating and water.

•  The cooler months of Autumn mean a tramp up Quajibin or a beach outing to Yenyening Lakes. And the night skies of the Wheatbelt will take your breath away. Just remember the insect repellent!

• Take in a trip, an overnight spot or a meal at White Gum Farm, located east of Beverley. 

 Now if this tantalising tableau of extraordinary events doesn't tempt you all to lose the insanity of the world over four days of fantastic and fabulous festivities, nothing will!

 

WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU AT EASTER AND DURING THE REST OF 2025!

 

A Final Reminder -

 

Please check these pages for events at the EAST END GALLERY AND the EAST END ARTS PRECINCT -

 

Heavenly Beverley - http://heavenlybeverleywa.blogspot

 Kate Sofoulis - http://www.facebook.com/KateandMichael2/friends

East End Gallery - https://www.facebook.com/eastendartistsprecinctbeverleywa

 

"Visit Beverley WA" - https://www.beverleywa.com/events.html - 

DOES NOT PROMOTE EAST END GALLERY EVENTS (annual or otherwise). 

 

Do not ever expect to see any support of the East End Artists' Precinct events on the "Visit Beverley WA" page.  

Feeling a bit edgy?

 

 

 

Maybe a bit fatigued?

 

Tried this?

 

Or this?

 

 

 

When what we want is this?

 

 

 

So jump into your vehicle of choice...

 

And head for Heavenly Beverley at Easter!

 

 

 

Snippets from our March Sundowner - 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here is a sneak peep of the East End Artists Precinct ready for Easter!

 

 

 

Hello! to our our guests,  friends and supporters...

 

 

 

And Hello! from Marion, Rebecca and Jodie...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And now for a view of the Vincent Street Emporium -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jodie...

 

 

 

And here's Studio 116  -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marion in her Studio...

 

Bec, surrounded by her exquisite craftsmanship.

 

 

 

Michael and Lawrence - the sculptor and his mate from 1969!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THEY KNOW...

A couple of days ago, I became utterly infuriated with Telstra after being thrown off the Internet every fifteen minutes for an hour. We pay close to $200 per month to Telstra. I know I have been complaining about Telstra's appalling service for years, but that morning's lack of performance really was the straw that broke the camel's back. So, once more, I wrote to Vicki Brady, the CEO of Telstra.

I addressed my email to Ms Brady. She responded, calling herself Vicki. This familiarity, totally uninvited, went over like a lead balloon. Vicki Brady is not my friend. Telstra is not my friend. Telstra is a private communications company that cares about profit and its shareholders. Certainly not about a small Western Australian town called Beverley.

A short lesson in geography will inform readers that Beverley is 130 kilometres from the centre of Perth. We do have mobile coverage to York and Northam, 33 and 68 kilometres north, both of which have larger populations. However, travelling from Beverley to the Lakes 80 kilometres away (our quickest and safest route to Perth) has no reliable mobile signal...

Beverley is barely regional and certainly not remote. Yet we barely receive 4G, despite the glowing endorsements given by Telstra with the shutting down of the 3G network. Yet, we continue to suffer from ongoing communication issues about which Telstra will do NOTHING.

How do I know that Telstra doesn't give a toss about Beverley? Because THEY KNOW the state of our mobile and internet coverage. This has been proven time and time again over the last ten years. They rock up in their brightly coloured bus and listen to story after story of communications woe. They give pathetic excuses.They tell us nothing can be done to alleviate the tragedy that are our Telstra mobile phones and  our Telstra internet. They look at ways for consumers to pay more to prop up their appalling service rather than fix the issues themselves.

Over the last two days, I have been unfortunate enough to speak to several members of the Telstra "Team". They have an entire Complaints Team as well as the non - Complaints Team. Personally, I couldn't pick one from the other...

I did not hear a single Australian name from any one of the Team. Which is OK if I can understand them. However, the combination of our dreadful mobile reception and their tendency to speak very fast in accented voices defeated me. How many times do I have to say "pardon?" before they recognise I have a problem.

Plus, they love using gobbledegook and weasel words. Terminology which anybody like me has little hope of understanding. All I do know is when they attempted to perform so called "speed tests" of my mobile phone, the application wouldn't even load, on three occasions. Then, some woman wanted me to move out of my house for another speed test to find the best spot for reception! Are they for real?

Two days ago, the speeds were so bad that my complaint was escalated. Yesterday, the speeds were too good for escalation...I have been offered  Telstra NBN (again), Telstra WiFi calling (which relies on reliable internet), Telstra land line or a Telstra booster or a Telstra antenna, all of course at our expense.

Telstra is planning NO UPGRADES to Beverley's services, even though they are fully aware of their failures. They have acknowledged that we do not have enough signal to cope at peak times, that our towers are not fit for purpose and that our phones and internet (using Telstra devices) will continue to disconnect, drop out, not load or all of the above.  The greatest irony was that when Telstra attempted to ring me this morning, they couldn't get through to me due to NO BARS on my phone.

I hope that other Beverley residents take the opportunity to share their views on Telstra's contempt towards us by also writing to Vicki Brady, the CEO. Just Google her name and her contact details come up. In the meantime, I shall be writing regularly to Ms Brady. I have no desire to engage with any more of her Team as they continue to offer me unacceptable solutions. I shall also be writing to the Communications Ombudsman and the minute the new government becomes clear, I will write to the new Communications Minister.

I have now discovered that my heart condition creates more susceptibility for me to have a heart attack or a stroke or die. If this occurs, I have sworn Michael to sue the pants off Telstra if we can't use our phones to get assistance. 

When will Telstra begin treating their clients with respect?