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CLAIMANT COMPLETE RUBBISHApril Mystery Shopper Kirsty of Pennant Hills claimingher prize from Sharon of Sticky Wick Candles at theThornleigh Farm Market on Sunday May 20LIFTING YOUHIGHERLocal scouts will be Lifting You Higher with music, danceand lots of laughs at this year’s Gang ShowAt the end of June,ornsby Gang Show willbe Lifting You Higher witha cast of over 90 Scoutsand Guides from all overSydney’s north.There’s always plenty ofcolour, movement andlaughs and the cast hasrehearsed every weekendsince February to bringyou an original, slick,bright show.Lifting You Higher runsfor eight musicalperformances from FridayJune 29 to Saturday July 7at Asquith Boys’ HighSchool theatre and parkingis easy. Minibus parkingand disability access isavailable if required.THE CREWEL GOBELINNEEDLECRAFT9 MARIAN STREET, KILLARAOpposite the Marian Street Theatre • Easy parkingMon - Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm, Sat 9.00am - 4.00pmPH: 9498 6831 FAX: 9499 5001www.thecrewelgobelin.com.auSpecialising in: • Fine Embroidery• Wool & Silk Ribbon Embroidery • Smocking• Heirloom Machine Sewing • Cross-Stitch& TapestrySuppliers of: • Danish Flower Threads• Appletons Wools • Silk Ribbons• Large Variety of Overdyed Threads• Ribbons & Wools • Windflower Wool Blanket Kits• Beth Russell Tapestry Kits• DMC Threads & Tapestry Wools• Crochet Cottons • Voiles, Batistes, Silks & Laces• Wool BlanketingZac’sGREAT FOODSteak, Seafood and Afghani CuisineBook our famous 5 courses for $30.00 for your next celebration12 — Monthly Chronicle, May/June 2012Don’t miss this year’sReturned to Glory ArtExhibition at WallarobbaArts and Cultural Centrefrom Wednesday, June 6until Sunday, June 24from 10am until 4pmdaily.There will be an awardspresentation night atWallarobba to which thepublic are welcome, onFriday, June 8 at 7pm.More than $5,500 in prizeswill be awarded to thewinning artists.The exhibition is theculmination of acompetition that’sBYO – Open from 6pm Tues – Satdesigned to encourageresidents to thinkcarefully about how wastecan be re-used andrecycled and all of theartworks that form theexhibition are madeentirely from materialsthat were headed towardsthe garbage bin.“Old barbie dolls, videotapes, potato chip packets,tea bags and 450 zipperswere among the itemstransformed into art forthis year’s exhibition,”event coordinator KerryEuers explained.The exhibition includes288 Pennant Hills Road ThornleighPhone 9484 6799 www.zacsgreaood.com.auover 80 sculptures, as wellas wearable, functional,mixed media and youthartworks created by peoplewho live in Hornsby Shireor are members ofHornsby Art Society.“We’ve been absolutelyamazed by the creativity ofour local artists intransforming unwanteditems into top qualityartworks,” Kerry said.The Returned to GloryRecycled Art Competitionand Exhibition is aninitiative of Hornsby ShireCouncil in conjunctionwith Hornsby Art Society.The competition issponsored by TranspacificCleanaway.CALL FOR WRITERSThe Fellowship ofAustralian Writers NorthShore Branch is calling forentries for its annualSuper Short StoryCompetition 2012, theclosing date of which isSunday, September 30.There are two categories:Category A: Super ShortStory and Category B:Memoir, defined as amemory in the writer’s lifeof an incident, or aThere are six eveningperformances at 8pm onFriday June 29 (openingnight), Saturday June 30,Monday July 2,Wednesday July 4, FridayJuly 6 and the grand finaleon Saturday July 7. Thereare also two matinees at2pm on Saturday June 30and Saturday July 7.For further information,phone 9481 0937.Visit the website atwww.gangshow.com tobook tickets.number of incidentsrelating to a single theme.The same conditionsapply for both categories.Maximum - 700 words. Noemail entries will beaccepted. No entry formrequired. Story text, titleand page numbers only toappear on entry. Attach acover sheet statingMOREFOR BREAKFAST AT NORMOAs reported in theEaster edition of TheMonthly Chronicle, theRotary Club ofThornleigh hasreinvented itself as abreakfast club, meetingon Thursday mornings atThe Upper Crustcafé/restaurant inNormanhurst. That partof the transition havingbeen completed, the nextcategory (A or B), writer’scontact details, title ofentry and word count. Noclip art or decoration ofany kind.Submissions must bethe original work of theauthor, not having won acash prize at close ofcompetition and notsubmitted concurrentlyelsewhere, typed onsingle-sided A4 paper,double-spaced.step, aimed at increasingmembership, was takenon Thursday May 17when a number of invitedguests attended an“interest meeting”specifically structured forthe information ofprospective members.Those attending werebriefed about a range ofRotary’s communityactivities including theworld-wide Polio Plusprogram, initiated by anAustralian Rotarian 25years ago; Shelter Box;Pride of WorkmanshipAwards; medical researchHave you had some fish today? Ulric Steiner’sentry in the Returned to Glory exhibition.Judges’ decision is finaland no furthercorrespondence will beentertained.Enclose a business-sizeenvelope SSAE for results.Prizes: 1st - $200; 2nd -$100, Highly Commendedand Commendedcertificates.Entry fee; $5 – chequesmade payable toFellowship of AustralianWriters North ShoreBranch. Stamps or coinssponsored by The RotaryFoundation andThornleigh Rotary Club’sown monthly FarmMarkets.Rotarians and gueststhen heard at first handfrom participants in arange of Rotary’s youthoriented programsincluding a talk by MikeGiliam father of Jono, astudent at Arden AnglicanSchool, who is now inFinland on a Rotary YouthExchange. Jono is one oftwo exchange studentsfrom this area beingsponsored by ThornleighAT EPPINGLIBRARYEpping Library atChambers Court (offPembroke Street), Eppingwill host BilingualStorytime sessionscelebrating the DragonBoat Festival at 10.30amon Monday, June 18 andFriday,June 22.At 6pm on ThursdayJune 21 there will be aseminar in Epping Leisureand Learning Centre(below Epping Library)titled Financial Fitness -Reviewing your financialposition.Bookings are essentialfor the seminar, please callwill not be accepted aspayment for entry.Send entries to:Competition Convenor, 5Clement Street, StrathfieldSouth, 2136For further information,email fawnorthshore@gmail.com or log on to theFAWNS websitehttp://sites.google.com/site/fawnorthshoreregional/Results will be postedon this website by Friday,November 9.Rotary Club.Finally, an address byCharlotte Ward, a year 12student at Hornsby Girls’High School, drewparticular interest.Charlotte was sponsoredby Thornleigh RotaryClub to attend theNational Science YouthForum in Canberra inJanuary, from which shewon selection to attendthe International ScienceYouth Forum in Londonlater this year.Visiting Rotarians andinterested members of thepublic are most welcometo attend ThornleighRotary Club’s weeklymeetings at The UpperCrust in Denman Parade,directly oppositeNormanhurst railwaystation, or contact theMembership Director, Mr.Ross McDonald on 0407263 454.Epping Library at 98476120 or emailfis.seminar.bookings@humanservices.gov.auBoth events are free.MID YEARMADNESSTalk to us about ourSpecial Full Page RateNEXT DEADLINE JUNE 18DELIVERY JUNE 30For all advertising and editorial informationPhone 9980 6654Email: news@monthlychronicle.comREAD US ONLINEwww.monthlychronicle.com
Monthly Chronicle, May/June 2012 — 13ENUS TO TRANSIT BUT BE CAREFULAt about 8.16am (EST)n Wednesday, June 6enus will start itsourney across the Sun toa point where Venus’ andEarth’s paths round thesun line up exactly andtheir orbits cross.This rare astronomicalevent occurs four timesevery 243 years in pairsseparated by eight years sothat while the last transitoccurred in 2004, the nextafter June 6 will not occuruntil December 2117.The Transit of Venus isnot only scientificallyimportant, but it alsoplayed a huge role in thehistory of Australia.The 1769 transit wasthe main reason forCaptain Cook’s firstvoyage to the Pacific. Afterobserving the transit fromTahiti, he opened sealedorders which instructedhim to search for TerraAustralis.The CSIRO’s websiteexplains that The Transitof Venus in 1769 was “ashining example ofcollaboration on a globalscale.” It continues with:“Observations ofTransits of Venus helpedscientists use parallax(the apparent position ofsomething from differentobservation points) tocalculate the distancebetween the Sun and theEarth. It also helped withcalculating the size of ourSolar System.“So to use parallax,scientists had to spreadacross the globe, observeThe Transit of Venus andthen get the data togetherand do the maths.“For the 1769 transitnot only was there Cook’svoyage, scientists travelledto Hudson Bay in Canada,Baja California, at the timeunder Spanish control,and Norway. The Czechastronomer ChristianMayer was invited byCatherine the Great toobserve the transit in SaintPetersburg. Members ofRussian Academy ofTransit of Venus in 2004 courtesy Kenthurst Observatory.Sciences went to eightsites across the RussianEmpire. The AmericanPhilosophical Societyerected three temporaryobservatories inPhiladelphia.”Amateur astronomer,Trevor Patrick ofKenthurst Observatorycurrently has a display ofthis special event inPennant Hills Library.Trevor is mostconcerned to reinforcewarnings on how to viewThe Transit of Venus onJune 6, he writes“YOU MUST NOTLOOK at the Sun througha pair of binoculars ortelescope.”Mr. Patrick was appalledat a recent story in theSydney Morning Herald(SMH) regarding thePAST FAMILIESTake the time to visitPennant Hills Librarywhere an interestinghistorical displaytransit on June 6, a photosupporting the storyshowed children observingthe event through atelescope“Thousands of NewSouth Wales citizens willbe BLIND for the rest oftheir lives if they followthe picture used in thisstory,” he continues.“In the interests of theeye health of allAustralians YOU MUSTNOT look directly at theSun through a telescope ora pair of binoculars. Norshould you use very darksunglasses or smokecoloured glass.“The only safe way toobserve the historic eventof June 6 is by projection,where you turn your backto the Sun and watch theimage of the planet Venuspass across the disc of theSun projected onto ascreen. See photo.”featuring families living inthe Pennant Hills districtin 1828 is on displaythroughout June and July.Progressive or MultifocalSpectacle LensesThe human eye loses its ability to change focus from distanceto near as a normal change due to age. As a result, in peopleover 40 years of age:• most people find that they have to hold their reading matterfarther away,• they also have an increased need for good light on any closevision tasks.• Jobs easily done in the past such as threading needles,reading medicine bottles, removing splinters graduallybecome more difficult.• Those who have excellent distance vision find themselvesneeding to obtain glasses for reading.• People with myopia (short-sightedness) often findthemselves taking off their glasses in order to read.• The ability of a single pair of spectacles to cope with alldistances of focus becomes much more difficult.• Many people need to have separate pairs of glasses fordistance, reading and computers.As a result of the need for variable focussing options andmultiple pairs of glasses, spectacles with bifocal and trifocallenses were developed. In the last 50 years there have beenmany designs of multifocal or progressive addition lenses(PALs).• The first modern multifocal was “Varilux”, launched by thelens manufacturer Essilor, in 1959.• In Australia we now have access to a number of excellentmanufacturers of PALs including Essilor (France), Hoya andNikon (Japan), and Rodenstock and Carl Zeiss/ SOLA(Germany).• First generation multifocals had severe distortions in theperipheral vision and very limited reading areas.• The success rate of the original lens designs was poor,around 40 to 50%.• Improvements in lens designs and manufacturing processes,incorporating computer aided lens surfacing and many yearsof research, means that current generation lenses have arounda 98% success rate.• Newer designs have wider reading zones, less distortionsand are far easier to adapt to• PALs are very difficult to manufacture and are moreexpensive as a result• They are available in a wide variety of options includingscratch resistant and antireflective coatings, high refractiveindex and polycarbonate materials, photochromaticand polarised tints• There are special multifocal designs for computer users.For further information on PALs please contact David JHendry Optometrists, Westleigh on 9481 8994.
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