The Weekly Times - 17th January, 2018

22 THE WEEKLY TIMES Wednesday 17 January, 2018
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VOL. 96 NO. 13 PUBLISHED 96 YEARS P.O. BOX 123, RYDE 1680 PHONE: 9807-6666
Tigers
Roar &
Score in
Queensland! Page 40
PAGES 22 & 23
WIN! with TWT!
Hunters Hill Music Concert
‘Inventing the Nocturne’
Three TWT readers can win Double Passes to Hunters Hill
Music’s concert Inventing the Nocturne on Sunday April 23
featuring acclaimed pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska and with
Richard O’Connor in Hunters Hill Town Hall at 2.30pm. SEE
PAGE 2.
Taronga Zoo Family Passes
for Easter School Holidays
Five TWT readers have won Family Passes to Taronga Zoo’s new
attractions during the Easter school holidays. SEE PAGE 2.
CO LO UR-IN
PO STER
CO N TEST
WINNERS SEE PAGE 8
Hey, Boys & Girls!
ROBERTS, DOMINELLO NEXT? SEE PAGE 3
Easter Joy to All ...
JB’s World
GLADYS BEREJIKLIAN
is on notice.
Last Saturday’s
by-election results are
a major wake-up call for her
and her Liberal coalition
government. If she doesn’t
take note and act accordingly
she is headed for a landslide
defeat at the next State
election when she has to face
the people and not just the
factional fixers within her
dysfunctional party.
Continued on Page 3
West Ryde’s Church of the Good Shepherd members led last
Saturday’s Grand Easter Parade to the Easter Fair accompanied
by local MPs, church leaders, TWT Teen Queen and community
members. Full Reports inside. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO.
NSW BY-ELECTION BACKLASH
TWT EDITORIAL
ys - But Be Warned!
edicted the
emier Mike
d just two months ago following the
e
oy
ejiklian must now
John
ced Council
And that could mean taking her new
nment to the next State elections and
‘We Did Remember Them’
WIN! with TWT!
Lauris Elms
Three TWT readers have won Double Passes to this Sunday’
Elms Tribute Concert in Hunters Hill
SEE PAGE 2.
Camerata Academica
Four TWT readers can win Double Passes to Camerata
concert on Saturday December
Hunters Hill Heritage
Twelve TWT readers have
Walks. SEE PAGE 2.
Elysian Fields @ Foundry 616
Three TWT readers have won Double Passes to an Elysian Fields concert on
November 24 at jazz club Foundry 616 in Harris Str
PAGE 2.
St Andrew’s Day Dinner
A lucky couple can win a Double Pass to St
on Saturday November 26 organised by Macquarie Chapel Pr
14.
Nats Trumped in Orange by-election
GRANT GOES!
NSW Nationals Leader and Deputy Premier Troy Grant has paid the price of sheepishly
following dictator Liberal Premier Mike Baird on the road to oblivion over forced amalgamations
of local Councils and the execution of Local Democracy.
Grant announced his resignation yesterday before his colleagues had the chance to publicly sack him for
leading them to the worst ever by-election result in NSW history!
No Government held seat in the State can now be considered safe from the wrath of the electors who are fed
up with the arrogance and dictatorship of the premier.
Baird Next?
Baird and Grant thought they had appeased voters when they tearily admitted they were wrong, wrong, wrong
in banning greyhounds.
But the electorate’s anger runs deeper especially with the forced amalgamations of local councils into mega
cities and their lies and false claims associated with them.
Plus the nanny state laws, closure and sale of the Powerhouse Museum, threats to public and crown lands with
overdevelopments, city chaos with trams and desecration of hundreds of heritage trees especially the Anzac
memorial trees in Anzac Avenue and threats to Tafe plus the general lack of community consultation with an
arrogant “big brother knows best” attitude.
No State seat is Safe now!
Weekly Times January 25, 2017 Weekly Times March 29, 2017
COURT DRAMA: STATE GOVT REBUFFED OVER COUNCIL MERGERS!
Premier Must Rethink Forced Amalgamations OR It’s
GOODBYE GLADYS!
BY OUR CHIEF CIVIC ROUNDSMAN
Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s forced council mergers
have been blown out of the water with Ku-ring-gai
Council winning its court battle to stop a forced merger
with Hornsby on Monday.
Hunters Hill Mayor Clr Richard Quinn says he is “absolutely
thrilled by the court ruling” as Hunters Hill’s case is similar
to Ku-ring-gai’s.
“It’s fantastic, absolutely wonderful news” he said yesterday
“and the court verdict confirms everything we’ve said about
forced mergers from day one”.
FULL STORY SEE PAGE 5.
Forced council mergers ended Deputy Premier Troy Grant’s
leadership career followed by resignation of Dictator Premier
Mike Baird predicted by The Weekly Times November 16, 2016.
TWT EDITORIAL
Congratulations Premier
Gladys - But Be Warned!
The Weekly Times correctly predicted the
resignation of the dictator Premier Mike
Baird just two months ago following the
disastrous Orange by-election and departure
of Nationals Leader and Deputy Premier Troy
Grant.
New Premier Gladys Berejiklian must now
support her Nationals coalition partner John
Barilaro in calling a halt to forced Council
amalgamations, or face the consequences.
And that could mean taking her new
government to the next State elections and
oblivion.
After all she was a very senior member of
dictator Baird’s government that created the
mess that the state government now finds
itself in.
‘We Did Remember Them’
JB’s World
WIN! with TWT!
Lauris Elms
Three TWT readers have won Double Passes to this Sunday’
Elms Tribute Concert in Hunters Hill
SEE PAGE 2.
Camerata Academica
Four TWT readers can win Double Passes to Camerata
concert on Saturday December
Hunters Hill Heritage
Twelve TWT readers have
Walks. SEE PAGE 2.
Elysian Fields @ Foundry 616
Three TWT readers have won Double Passes to an Elysian Fields concert on
November 24 at jazz club Foundry 616 in Harris Str
PAGE 2.
St Andrew’s Day Dinner
A lucky couple can win a Double Pass to St
on Saturday November 26 organised by Macquarie Chapel Pr
14.
Nats Trumped in Orange by-election
GRANT GOES!
NSW Nationals Leader and Deputy Premier Troy Grant has paid the price of sheepishly
following dictator Liberal Premier Mike Baird on the road to oblivion over forced amalgamations
of local Councils and the execution of Local Democracy.
Grant announced his resignation yesterday before his colleagues had the chance to publicly sack him for
leading them to the worst ever by-election result in NSW history!
No Government held seat in the State can now be considered safe from the wrath of the electors who are fed
up with the arrogance and dictatorship of the premier.
Baird Next?
Baird and Grant thought they had appeased voters when they tearily admitted they were wrong, wrong, wrong
in banning greyhounds.
But the electorate’s anger runs deeper especially with the forced amalgamations of local councils into mega
cities and their lies and false claims associated with them.
Plus the nanny state laws, closure and sale of the Powerhouse Museum, threats to public and crown lands with
overdevelopments, city chaos with trams and desecration of hundreds of heritage trees especially the Anzac
memorial trees in Anzac Avenue and threats to Tafe plus the general lack of community consultation with an
arrogant “big brother knows best” attitude.
No State seat is Safe now!
West Ryde Easter
Parade & Fair
WIN! with TWT!
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VOL. 96 NO. 12 PUBLISHED 96 YEARS P.O. BOX 123, RYDE 1680 PHONE: 9807-6666
Tigers
Welcome
New Coach
Ivan Cleary Page 32
Perfect for
PAGE 13
West Ryde Easter Parade
& Fair This Saturday
Taronga Zoo Family Passes
for Easter School Holidays
Five TWT readers can win Family Passes to view babies, birds,
monkeys and movies at Taronga Zoo during the Easter school
holidays. SEE PAGE 2.
COSI play at St Ignatius Riverview
Two TWT readers have won Double Passes to opening night of
Lane Cove Theatre Company’s popular Australian play COSI on
Thursday April 6 in the O’Kelly Drama Theatre at St Ignatius
College, Riverview at 7.30pm. SEE PAGE 2.
JB’s World
COLONEL BLIMP was
at his blustering best apparently
at last meeting
of the dysfunctional Libs
led Ryde Council meeting.
Sorry I missed it.
Will make sure I am at
the next one. See what I
mean on Page 3.
Continued on Page 3
All roads lead to West Ryde this Saturday for the 24th annual West Ryde Easter Parade
& Fair which will be held in the streets of West Ryde and on the Marketplace
Plaza.
$5,500
Grand Easter Parade will start from Miriam Park at
9.15am and proceed along Reserve Street, Anthony
Road, West Parade, Victoria Road, Chatham Road into
Graf Avenue to the main stage area corner of Market
Street.
Judging of the Best Easter Bonnets and Best Decorated
Wheels will take place before the official opening
at 10am. Entertainment will continue on the stage until
3.30pm.
Meanwhile the TWT Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club
$2,000 Gold Cup Singing Star Contest will commence
on the Plaza stage at 12.15pm.
Over 70 stalls including food, craft, novelties, goods
and community information will open from 9am to
3.30pm.
Over $5,500 in prizes will be won on the day for best
Easter Bonnets, Best Decorated Wheels, TWT Poster
Coloring Contest and TWT Hawks Gold Cup Singing
Star Contest.
DETAILS SEE PAGES 8 AND 9
in Prizes to Win!
Crucial week for Hunter’s
Hill Future! SEE PAGE 5
West Ryde Easter
Parade & Fair
CO LO UR-IN
PO STER
CO N TEST
DETAILS SEE PAGES 8 & 9
Hey, Boys & Girls!
POSTER COLORING CONTEST
FREE ENTRY SEE PAGE 8
This Saturday’s North Shore
By-Election will be a test of
Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s
leadership as much as election
a new local MP to replace Jillian
Skinner.
SEE PAGE 6.
NORTH SHORE BY-ELECTION
THIS SATURDAY
BATHROOM
Wednesday May 10, 2017
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VOL. 96 NO. 17 PUBLISHED 96 YEARS P.O. BOX 123, RYDE 1680 PHONE: 9807-6666
Tiger Town
mourns
passing of
Keith Aggett Page 36
Mother’s Day
Happy
TO ALL MUMS
GIFT & DINING SPECIALS INSIDE
not
at
which
any
ea
Civic
two
PETITION FOR MORE CAR
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Ryde Hunters Hill Symphony
Mother’s Day Concert
Three TWT readers have won Family Passes
to Ryde-Hunters Hill Symphony Orchestra’s
special Mother’s Day Concert this Sunday
May 14 in North Ryde School of Arts
Community Hall at 3.30pm. SEE PAGE 2.
Ryde Eastwood Music Concert
Five TWT readers have won Double Passes to
Ryde Eastwood District Music Club’s concert
on Wednesday May 10 in the Community
Hall, 201 Cox’s Road North Ryde at 8pm. SEE
PAGE 2.
John Wick Action Thriller Film
Five TWT readers have won Double Passes to
the American action-thriller film John Wick:
Chapter 2 to be released in cinemas on May
18, courtesy of independent film distributors
StudioCanal. SEE PAGE 2.
Annie Get Your Gun Musical
Three TWT readers can win Double Passes
to opening night of Eastwood Uniting Church
Musical Society’s production Annie Get Your
Gun on Friday May 19 at 14 Lakeside Road
Eastwood at 8pm.
SEE PAGE 2.
JB’s World
KEITH AGGETT will be
sadly missed in TWT Territory
as the long serving
president of the most progressive
Ryde-Eastwood
Leagues Club at West
Ryde and the loving husband
of 64 years to Beryl
and adored father and
father-in-law to Graeme
and Christine and Susan
and John. We will all miss
him greatly.
Continued on Page 3
SEE PAGE 3
Shock Death
of Hawks
Club Legend
Premier answers TWT
at National Press Club
With deep regret we
report the passing of
Ryde-Eastwood Leagues
Club longtime President
Keith Aggett.
His funeral service is this
Friday May 12 at 10.15am
in the Palm Chapel at
Macquarie Park Crematorium,
North Ryde.
See tributes and funeral
details Pages 35 and 36.
Golfer Harry Doig has
been named 2017 TWT
Ryde Sports Foundation
Club 6 Sports Star of the
Year.
Seventeen year old whizkid
golfer Harry was awarded at
last Friday’s Gala Presentation
Dinner at Ryde-Eastwood
Leagues Club winning from a
star studded line-up of twelve
grand finalists.
Ryde-Eastwood
Leagues
Club Vice President Dennis
Petkovich named the winner
and presented the Ryde Sports
Foundation Shield to Harry,
pictured left.
Guest speaker was a former
TWT Ryde Sports Foundation
winner and multi gold winning
paralympian Louise Sauvage.
SEE MORE REPORTS &
PHOTOS PAGES 14 and 35.
TWT Sports Star of Year
Special Feature Pages 22, 23
Golfer Harry 2017
TWT Ryde Sports
Foundation Club 6
Sports Star of Year
TWT On-the-Spot Photo
Wednesday June 14, 2017
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VOL. 96 NO. 22 PUBLISHED 96 YEARS P.O. BOX 123, RYDE 1680 PHONE: 9807-6666
Tigers
Sirro
Stars
Again! Page 32
QUEEN’S
BIRTHDAY
HONOURS
FULL LOCAL LIST SEE PAGES 8 & 9
We’ve Made It!
East Ryde Cub Scouts William Green and Jake Henderson have achieved Cub Scouts highest award the
Grey Wolf badge and celebrated at their presentation at East Ryde Scout Hall. SEE MORE PAGE 18.
JB’s World
HENRY LAWSON was born
150 years ago this week and
he is being commemorated
on a special APO stamp issue.
JB ventured to Henry’s
birthplace last weekend for
the Henry Lawson Festival
at Grenfell where my father
Arthur John Booth was also
born along with ten brothers
and sisters. It was a great
weekend of celebration with
special celebrity guest Tara
Moss.
Continued page 3
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Ride of Your Life at Hornsby Gang Show
Two TWT readers can win double passes for an adult
and child to a 2017 Hornsby Gang Show performance
on Wednesday night July 5 in the Barker College Leslie
Theatre, 91 Pacific Highway, Hornsby at 8pm. SEE PAGE 2.
Ollie’s Treasure Picture Books
Two TWT readers have won copies of a new children’s
picture book Ollie’s Treasure written by Lynn Jenkins and
illustrated by Kirrili Lonergan. SEE PAGE 2.
Ryde Hunters Hill Symphony
Kids Korner IV Concert
Three TWT readers can win double passes to Ryde-Hunters
Hill Symphony’s Kids Corner IV concert this Sunday June
18 in North Ryde School of Arts Community Hall at 3pm.
SEE PAGE 10.
Brides 2017
Brides 2017
HUNTERS
HILL LIFE
See Page 7
INSIDE PAGES 12&13
TWT SPECIAL FEATURE
Genuine climate scientist Dr
Howard Brady is the author of the
best selling climate change book
Mirrors & Mazes and was guest
speaker last Thursday night
meeting of Climate Realists of Five
Dock at Barnwell Park Golf Club.
He said climate science went off
the rails in 1979 when the US
Academy of Science set an Index
for the doubling CO2.
He said the Index has put Climate
on Steroids.
NEXT WEEK The Weekly Times
will offer copies of his best selling
book Mirrors & Mazes and a report
on his informative address.
Climate Science on Steroids!
TWT on-the-spot PHOTO.
Wednesday April 26, 2017
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VOL. 96 NO. 15 PUBLISHED 96 YEARS P.O. BOX 123, RYDE 1680 PHONE: 9807-6666
Tigers
ANZAC day
win over
Hush Puppies! Page 28
Centenary of WW1 1914 - 1918
WIN! with TWT!
RHHSO Mother’s Day Concert
Three TWT readers can win Family Passes
to Ryde Hunters Hill Symphony Orchestra’s
special Mother’s Day Concert Sunday May 14 at
3.30pm. SEE PAGE 2.
Wake Up Sleepyhead Picture Books
Three TWT readers have won copies of the newlyreleased
picture book Wake Up Sleepyhead by
comedian and film maker Gary ck and award
winning illustrator Nick O’Sullivan. SEE PAGE 2.
JB’s World
ANZAC
SERVICES
have been well supported
this year but with
Anzac Day on a Tuesday
we have printed
earlier than usual and
a full report on local
Anzac Day services will
be published next week
and from Wednesday
today on TWT Online
at
www.weeklytimes.
com.au
Continued on Page 3
Gladesville Public School Captain Sophie Watson was a guest speaker at Gladesville
RSL Anzac Sunday Service at Gladesville RSL Community Club with Warrant Officer
Dominic Ambrosi of 8th Signal Regiment pictured with master of ceremonies Clr
Peter Astridge Sub Branch Secretary and Vice President, pictured above.
A bronze monument was dedicated and unveiled by Epping RSL President John
Curdie OAM and Clr Pierre Esber pictured above right with Epping MP Damien
Tudehope at Epping RSL Boronia Park Cenotaph service on Sunday while famous
entertainer Col Joye OAM was guest speaker at Hunters Hill Anzac service last
Friday. TWT on-the-spot PHOTOS. SEE PAGE 3.
A bronze soldier monument was dedicated at Epping on
Sunday, above, while famous entertainer Col Joye OAM
was guest speaker at Hunters Hill Friday night. TWT
on-the-spot PHOTOS. More inside and on the web.
OPEN
DAY
OPEN
DAY
Newly Renovated!
THIS SATURDAY SEE PAGE 7
FREE
Event!
ANZAC DAY SERVICES
Wednesday May 3, 2017
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VOL. 96 NO. 16 PUBLISHED 96 YEARS P.O. BOX 123, RYDE 1680 PHONE: 9807-6666
Tigers
celebrate
at Leichhardt
Oval HQ Page 32
BATHROOM
KITCHEN LAUNDRY
Mother’s Day
SPOIL MUM THIS MOTHER’S DAY
SPOIL MUM THIS MOTHER’S DAY
SPOIL MUM THIS MOTHER’S DAY
WIN! with TWT!
Ryde Hunters Hill Symphony
Mothers Day Concert
Three TWT readers can win Family Passes
to Ryde-Hunters Hill Symphony Orchestra’s
special Mother’s Day Concert on Sunday May
14 in North Ryde School of Arts Community
Hall at 3.30pm. SEE PAGE 6.
John Wick Action Thriller Film
Five TWT readers can win Double Passes to
the American action-thriller film John Wick:
Chapter 2 to be released in cinemas on May
18, courtesy of independent film distributors
StudioCanal. SEE PAGE 2.
Annie Get Your Gun Musical
Three TWT readers can win Double Passes
to opening night of Eastwood Uniting Church
Musical Society’s latest production Annie Get
our Gun on Friday May 19 at 14 Lakeside
Road Eastwood at 8pm. SEE PAGE 7.
Ryde Eastwood Music Concert
Five TWT readers can win Double Passes
to Ryde Eastwood District Music Club’s
next concert on Wednesday May 10 in the
Community Hall, 201 Cox’s Road North Ryde
at 8pm. SEE PAGE 2.
JB’s World
JB WAS THERE on
Sunday night when
another much needed
sporting and entertainment
facility was closed
at West Ryde’s Putt
Putt mini golf course
for more “much needed”
apartments! Translated
means council
and developers’ greed!
Where will all the new
kids play?
Continued on Page 3
FULL ROUND-UP PICTORIAL REPORT
of all Anzac Day Services
and commemorations in
The Weekly Times Territory
INSIDE THIS WEEK
On Pages 18 and 19
Mother’s Day
Happy
TO ALL MUMS
GIFT & DINING SPECIALS INSIDE
not
at
which
any
ea
Civic
two
PETITION FOR MORE CAR
West Ryde’s iconic Putt Putt mini golf course closed on Sunday night after 48
ears o n and games enoed over five mon vstors to e reaed et
another mh needed aartment o onthesot
End of a happy Putt Putt era
SHAME
SAVED
and
RE-OPENED
SEE Page 8
But thanks to TWT
readers and MPs
Parramatta Council
On Your Greed
GLADYS Must
Apologise
- or GO! See Page 5
Wednesday June 7, 2017
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VOL. 96 NO. 21 PUBLISHED 96 YEARS P.O. BOX 123, RYDE 1680 PHONE: 9807-6666
Tigers
Triumph
in all
Grades! Page 36
JOHN ALEXANDER MP
IN EPPING
SEE PAGES 12 & 13
JB’s World
HAPPY QUEEN’S Birthday
holiday weekend to all readers.
Hope you enjoy it. JB
will be heading off to Grenfell
for the Henry Lawson Festival
celebrating 150 years of
our famous poet and author.
Grenfell also happens to be
the birthplace of my father
Arthur John Booth and his
ten brothers and sisters so
it’s also a sentimental journey
back to my family roots.
Continued page 3
Simon Tedeschi at Sunday’s Hunters
Hill Music Concert
Three TWT readers have won Double Passes to this
Sunday’s Hunters Hill Music Concert featuring the
internationally-acclaimed pianist Simon Tedeschi and
leading instrumentalist Roger Benedict in Hunters Hill
Town Hall at 2.30pm. SEE PAGE 2.
Ollie’s Treasure is a new Childrens
Picture Book
Two TWT readers can win copies of a new children’s
picture book Ollie’s Treasure written by Lynn Jenkins and
illustrated by Kirrili Lonergan. SEE PAGE 2.
WIN! with TWT!
US President Donald
Trump has
called the Paris
Climate pact for
what it is - a gigantic
and costly hoax.
Pity more Australian
political leaders
don’t follow suit
and help save the
Australian
economy
and welfare.
And the planet!
SEE PAGE 3.
PARIS HOAX TRUMPED!
BY OUR CHIEF CIVIC ROUNDSMAN
Hunters Hill Council has welcomed Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s
decision to defer the controversial Fire and Emergency
Services Levy.
But deferment has already come at a high cost to ratepayers in
a municipality being slowly strangled by her Government, Hunters
Hill Mayor Clr Richard Quinn said yesterday.
To collect the levy Hunters Hill Council has had to change its
whole IT system at great expense which has been a major and
expensive task Mayor Quinn said. SEE FULL REPORT PAGE 4.
Gladys Govt Fire Levy
Delay welcome BUT…
Mayor critical of costs to
Council and ratepayers
West Ryde Horses to Greener Pastures – Page 9
DEMOCRACY
nment to keep the “Local” in Local
s Upper House Inquiry
Parliament House to
TWT Locals
Honoured
TWT locals have
been awarded in
this year’s
Queen’s Birthday
Honours List.
A full list will be
published in The
Weekly Times next
week.
Gladesville celebrations
Gladesville welcomed and celebrated new businesses
at a party in Gladesville Shopping Village last Tuesday
night. SEE PAGE 14.
Wednesday April 19, 2017
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VOL. 96 NO. 14 PUBLISHED 96 YEARS P.O. BOX 123, RYDE 1680 PHONE: 9807-6666
Tigers
Roaring
Up Comp
Ladder! Page 32
ANZAC DAY
2017 services
Pages 9-11
Centenary of WW1 1914 - 1918
WIN! with TWT!
Hunters Hill Music Concert
Three TWT readers have won Double Passes to this
Sunday’s Hunters Hill Music concert Inventing the
Nocturne featuring acclaimed pianist Tamara-Anna
Cislowska and with Richard O’Connor in Hunters Hill
Town Hall at 2.30pm. SEE PAGE 2.
Wake Up Sleepyhead Picture Books
Three TWT readers can win copies of the newlyreleased
picture book Wake Up Sleepyhead by
comedian and film maer Gary Ec and award
winning illustrator Nick O’Sullivan. SEE PAGE 2.
JB’s World
EASTER SERVICES
were well attended in
TWT Territory last
weekend and now we
have ANZAC DAY observances
with various
services throughout the
area. We have a full
line-up of events inside
this week on Pages 6
to 10. Hope to see you
there.
Continued on Page 3
Controversial North
Shore winner Felicity
Wilson, left, and
Lane Cove MP
Anthony
Roberts,
right, “on notice”.
SEE PAGE 5.
COUNCIL BACKDOWN
RYDE CIVIC CENTRE
SAVED FROM
DEMOLITION – FOR NOW!
BY OUR CIVIC ROUNDSMAN
Ryde City Council has backed off from a proposal to demolish the Ryde
Civic Centre after a hard hitting campaign in The Weekly Times.
Ryde Council was scheduled to discuss demolition of the Civic
Centre building at next Wednesday’s Council meeting following a
report from the Ryde Civic Hub Committee.
However, while next Wednesday’s meeting has three reports
regarding the Civic Centre, none refer to the proposed building
demolition. SEE FULL REPORT PAGE 3.
Page 1
THE WEEKLY TIMES
March 15, 2017
By-elections show Libs on the nose Statewide
$2,000,000 $CANDAL
PUBLIC UPROAR AT
CIVIC CENTRE
DEMOLITION PLANS
BY OUR CHIEF CIVIC ROUNDSMAN
Public anger has erupted over last week’s revelations in The Weekly Times that Ryde’s
Liberal led – or misled - Council is squandering over $2 million of Ryde ratepayers hard
earned money in lavish accommodation at Macquarie Park.
Especially as that relates to over $10
million over the next five years when for
a meagre $100,000 or so the existing
Ryde Civic Centre building could be
repaired and continue to be used.
The building has been declared
structurally sound and does not need
to be demolished as has been stated by
leading construction management
expert Professor John Smolders of
Newcastle University’s prestigious
School of Architecture and Built
Environment.
Demolition of the Civic Centre
building would also mean that the
adjoining Civic Hall would be lost to the
community as well. Regular users are
devastated at the news. “Where can we
go?” they are asking.
CONTINUED PAGE 3.
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Tiger Town
Farewells
Local Footy
Legend Page 32
JB’s World
CONGRATULATIONS
TO our two local heroes
Gareth Jones and Craig
Harwood of North Ryde
whose quick thinking and
courageous actions averted
more than a property
loss on Saturday, saving a
boy and his pet dog. Well
done Gareth and Craig.
We are proud of you both.
Continued on Page 3
WIN! with TWT!
The Shack drama
fil asses
Five TWT readers can win
Double Passes to the American
psychological drama film
The Shack to be released in
cinemas on May 25, courtesy of
independent film distributors
StudioCanal. SEE PAGE 2.
Annie Get Your
Gun Musical
Three TWT readers have won
Double Passes to this Friday’s
opening night of Eastwood
Uniting Church Musical
Society’s production Annie Get
Your Gun at 14 Lakeside Road
Eastwood at 8pm. SEE PAGE 2.
Joubert
Singers
Concert
Three TWT readers can win
Double Passes to The Joubert
Singers’ upcoming concert
Visionaries and Revolutionaries
on Sunday May 28 in St Peter
Chanel Church Hunters Hill at
5pm. SEE PAGE 2.
Our Local Fire Heroes
Two quick acting neighbours heroically
saved a twelve year old boy and a dog from a
blazing home in North Ryde on Saturday.
Craig Harwood rescued the family dog from
within the inferno and passing by Gareth
Jones stopped his car and raced in to the
home to save the boy.
The fire broke out around 1pm in the garage
of the Sunhill Place home and firefighters
suspect it could have been started by a faulty
electrical switch.
Firefighters are reported to have battled the
blaze for two hours and their efforts were
hindered by problems with solar panels.
Mr Jones is well known to readers of The
Weekly Times in his position as Operations
Manager of North Ryde RSL Community Club.
Neighbours are assisting the family which
lost a substantial amount of personal
possessions in the blaze.
GARETH JONES, left, and CRAIG HARWOOD,
right, whose quick thinking and brave actions
saved a boy and the family pet dog in the
Sunhill Place house fire.
Special Feature Pages 12, 13
Macquarie
Community College
is in crisis again
with its once proud
future in doubt.
SEE PAGE 3.
Hunters Hill
Art Show
See Page 7
College Crisis – AGAIN!
Wednesday June 21, 2017
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HQ hosts
Blues &
Wallabies! Page 32
JB’s World
VICTOR DOMINELLO
MP is like a dog with a
juicy bone at the moment
following the record $4.2
billion schools funding
for schools over the next
four years with Ryde
electorate scoring new
schools and upgrades at
Kent Road, West Ryde
and Denistone East.
Continued page 5
WIN! with TWT!
Cumberland Gang Show
Four TWT readers can win Double Passes to an evening
performance of the Cumberland Gang Show’s 2017
musical variety performance “Live, Laugh and Smile”
on Saturday July 8 in Riverside Theatre Parramatta at
7.30pm. SEE PAGE 2.
Beecroft Orchestra Winter Concert
Two TWT readers can win Double Passes to Beecroft
Orchestra’s Romantic Winter Concert on Sunday July
2 in St Alban’s Anglican Church Epping at 2.30pm. SEE
PAGE 2.
Hornsby Gang Show Passes
Two TWT readers can win Double Passes for an adult
and child to a 2017 Hornsby Gang Show performance
on Wednesday night July 5 in the Barker College Leslie
Theatre Hornsby at 8pm. SEE PAGE 11.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian accompanied
by Treasurer Dominic Perrottet, Education
Minister Rod Stokes and Finance
Minister Ryde MP Victor Dominello announced
a record $4.2 billion schools
funding over four years at Kent Road
Public School on Monday.
This was an advance announcement on
last night’s State Budget presented by
the Treasurer in State Parliament.
Victor Dominello was particularly
pleased with new schools and upgrades
scheduled for the Ryde electorate. SEE
PAGE 5.
3 Copies to Win!
a guide through the
climate change debate
By DR HOWARD BRADY
Schools $4.2Bn Bonanza!
State Budget windfall
HUNTERS HILL THEATRE –Page 11
SEE PAGE 11
Mirrors and Mazes
Putney Public School’s new Principal John Koletti was enthusiastically welcomed by School Vice Captain Sophie,
Girl School Captain Jasmine, Boy School Captain Joshua and Vice Captain Jake this week. SEE SPECIAL
PUTNEY FEATURE PAGE 12. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO.
New Principal welcomed at Putney Public School
HOW TO
WIN
SEE PAGE 7
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Rising
Stars
Shine! Page 32
JB’s World
REV FRED NILE is a
former longtime Beazley
Street Ryde resident with
his nose to the ground
and a person of the people
with a sense of right
and wrong whether you
like him or not. Those of
us who believe in smaller
government and local democracy
thank him for
his leadership and support.
Continued page 5
Rev Fred Nile Call to TWT Readers:
Up the People’s Revolution and
KEEP FIGHTING!
For Local Democracy!
Rev Fred Nile has been a longtime fighter against forced council amalgamations saying
local democracy and independent councillors representing the suburbs they live in would be
lost. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO.
The Weekly Times readers and
lovers of local democracy have
been urged to continue to support
the war against forced council
amalgamations by Christian
Democrats leader Rev Fred Nile.
In a special message to The
Weekly Times readers Rev Fred
Nile warned “any amalgamations
will take away the local emphasis
and the bureaucracy will just get
bigger and bigger”.
Fred Nile’s Christian Democrats
supported a successful Bill in
NSW Parliament’s Upper House
last Thursday to stop forced
mergers with a vote of 21 – 18
moved by the Shooters, Fishers
and Farmers Party with Labor
and Greens support.
The Bill titled The Local
Government
Amendment
(Amalgamation Referendums) Bill
will now go to the Lower House
where the pro-merger Berejiklian
Liberal National coalition holds a
majority.
The Bill seeks to stop all forced
mergers in Sydney until
ratepayers are given a say in
local referendums and includes
de-amalgamations in areas
forced to merge into giant metro
councils. See more inside.
TWT EXCLUSIVE
HOW TO
WIN
THIS FRIDAY
SEE PAGE 11
WIN! with TWT!
Cumberland Gang Show Winners
Four TWT readers have won Double Passes to an
evening performance of the Cumberland Gang Show’s
2017 musical variety performance Live, Laugh and Smile
on Saturday July 8 in Riverside Theatre Parramatta at
7.30pm. SEE PAGE 2.
Beecroft Orchestra Winter Concert
Two TWT readers have won Double Passes to The Beecroft
Orchestra’s A Romantic Winter concert this Sunday July
2 in St Albans Anglican Church Epping at 2.30pm. SEE
PAGE 2.
Hornsby Gang Show Passes
Two TWT readers have won Double Passes for an adult
and child to a 2017 Hornsby Gang Show performance
on Wednesday night July 5 in the Barker College Leslie
Theatre Hornsby at 8pm. SEE PAGE 2.
3 Copies to Win!
a guide through the
climate change debate
By DR HOWARD BRADY
SEE PAGE 5
Mirrors and Mazes
RETIREMENT &
INVESTMENT
FEATURE
PAGES 18-20
West Ryde’s iconic Putt Putt mini golf
course closes after 48 years and five million
players to make way for an apartment complex.
Ryde Mayor Colonel Bill Pickering rants
and raves about “two anarchists and a village
idiot” who oppose his grand plan for a
new, Chinese designed Ryde Civic Centre
building with residential apartments.
Inside Sport: Stalwart Balmain Junior
League official Mick Manning is bestowed
life membership of the NSW Junior Rugby
League Association.
United States President Donald Trump
endorses The Weekly Times view that the
Paris Pact on Climate Change is a hoax,
which is what a growing number of our local
councils call the state government’s Fire and
Emergency Services Levy. Gladesville
Transport advocate Pat Wallace blasts the
government’s new bus timetable.
Inside Sport: Wests Tigers fullback James
Tedesco turns on the class to stake a claim
as the world’s best fullback as the NSW
Blues celebrate a 28-4 win over Queensland.
West Ryde’s Church of the Good Shepherd
leads the West Ryde Easter Parade and this
newspaper warns that no blue ribbon Liberal
seat is safe after a huge swing against the
Party in the North Shore by-election. The
umpopularity of Premier Gladys Berejiklian
and her government’s policy on forced mergers
is blamed for the swing.
Inside Sport: Wests Tigers new coach Ivan
Cleary gets off to a winning start in
Queensland with a 26-16 win over the highly
fancied milkmaids.
Golfer Harry Doig is named TWT Ryde
Sports Foundation Club 6 Sports Star Of The
Year. Premier Gladys Berejiklian is grilled by
The Weekly Times at the National Press Club
over her support for the Sydney to Randwick
tram works which are costing businesses in
the CBD millions in lost revenue.
Inside Sport: Tiger Town mourns local football
legend Keith Aggett, the long serving
president and founding member of the Ryde-
Eastwood Leagues Club.
ICAC victims - including former City of
Ryde Mayor Ivan Petch - are cleared of corruption
in the Downing Centre Local Court.
Hunters Hill locals Cate Blanchett AC and
Robert Erskine OAM receive Queens
Birthday honours. Rotarian Mr Erskine
receives his award for service to the Hunters
Hill community.
Inside Sport: Ryde Swimming Club legend
Karen Moras receives an OAM for her services
to the sport an a local and an Olympic
level.
Ryde City Council backs off from a proposal
to demolish the Ryde Civic Centre, a
week after a hard hitting article in The
Weekly Times. This newspaper commemorates
Anzac Day with a six page feature and
a photograph of Meadowbank Public School
students dressed in World War One costume.
Inside Sport: Wests Tigers player Paul
Whatuira stars in the Donald Duck Charity
Cup Golf Day at North Ryde Golf Club, which
raises $11,000 for charity.
Two heroic neighbours save a 12 year old
boy and his dog as fire engulfs a home in
North Ryde. The Macquarie Community
College is in crisis again and a huge rally of
Hunters Hill and Lane Cove residents is held
outside NSW Parliament on the first anniversary
of the proposed forced merger of the
two municipalities with the City of Ryde.
Inside Sport: Hunters Hill fitness guru Gary
Ross demonstrates his amazing stamina as
he sets a new world record for lifting weights.
Putney Public School welcomes new principal
John Koletti and Ryde MP Victor
Dominello announces a record $4.2 billion in
school funding. Refugee Week sees Marsden
High Afghan student Abdul Qayum Noori
share his story of courage and determination,
exclusively in The Weekly Times.
Inside Sport; Balmain Tigers legend Paul
Sironen is the guest star at the Gladesville
Sporties Origin Charity Luncheon.
In a TWT exclusive, Christian Democrats
leader the Reverend Fed Nile urges our readers
to keep fighting for local democracy as
Premier Gladys Berejiklian digs in her heels
about forced mergers. Lane Cove MP
Anthony Roberts responds to our call for
more local buses and new bus timetables in
Gladesville, Hunters Hill and Lane Cove.
Inside Sport; Drummoyne MP John Sidoti
announces the roll out of $4 million dollars
worth of life saving defibrillators for local
sports clubs.
This newspaper reports on every Anzac
Day service across TWT territory with a special
focus on the Centenary of World War
One. Former Ryde Mayor Artin Etmekdjian is
found guilty of a tax related offence and
Ryde Labor calls for an enquiry into issues
related to his tenure on the council during his
trial.
Inside Sport: Wests Tigers go from strength
to strength under new coach Ivan Cleary
who shows his willingness to give upcoming
young players a run in first grade.
Wednesday May 24, 2017
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Tigers
stars to
shine for
Blues! Page 32
RED SHIELD APPEAL 2017
JB’s World
EVERYBODY
LOVES
the Salvos because we
know what a great service
they provide to all and any
in need regardless of class
or creed. They depend on
our financial support to
maintain their good Samaritan
work so please
be generous when a caller
doorknocks on your place
this weekend.
Continued page 3
WIN! with TWT!
Funk Engine’s Taking A Ride CDs
Four TWT readers can win copies of Funk Engine’s new CD album
Taking A Ride. SEE PAGE 2.
Joubert Singers Concert
Three TWT readers have won double passes to this Sunday’s Visionaries
and Revolutionaries concert with The Joubert Singers in St Peter Chanel
Church Hunters Hill at 5pm. SEE PAGE 2.
The Shack Movie Passes
Five TWT readers have won double passes to the American psychological
drama film The Shac to be released in cinemas on ay 2, courtesy of
independent film distributors StudioCanal. SEE PAGE 2.
Red Shield 2017
Appeal Launch
2017 Salvos local Red Shield Appeal was launched
by local Members of Parliament Victor Dominello,
Damien Tudehope and John Alexander in Eastwood
asking residents to give generously.
They are pictured with Ryde Salvos Captain Cheryl
Kistan and children Micah and Faith and supporters
Ryde Deputy Mayor Clr Jane Stott, Nora Etmekdjian,
Trenton Brown, Dr Anthony Ching and Tony
Tang. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO.
DETAILS SEE PAGES 13-15.
Gladesville Celebration Party
New Businesses will be welcomed at a Gladesville is
Growing Celebration Party in centre court at Glades-
ille Shopping illage net Tuesday ay 30 from
.30pm. All welcome. Pries to win with free lucy
draws. Fun and entertainment. SEE PAGES 6-7.
CLUB BOARD RE-ELECTED PAGE 10
MACULAR DEGENERATION
AWARENESS WEEK FEATURE PAGE 19
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Duo to
Star for
Blues! Page 32
SALVOS RED SHIELD
WIN! with TWT!
Hunters Hill Music
Piano & Viola Recital
Three TWT readers can win Double Passes to Hunters
Hill Music’s next concert on Sunday June 11 featuring
internationally-acclaimed pianist Simon Tedeschi and
leading instrumentalist Roger Benedict in Hunters Hill
Town Hall at 2.30pm. SEE PAGE 2.
Funk Engine Taking A Ride CDs
Four TWT readers have won copies of Funk Engine’s new
CD album Taking A Ride. SEE PAGE 2
New State Govt Fire
Levy a ‘Big Rip-Off’
Ryde Council heard the new State
Government Fire Services levy is a massive
rip-off. SEE PAGE 5.
Gladesville Celebration Party
MARY POPPINS FLIES INTO RIVERSIDE GHS
TWT SPECIAL FEATURE
see page 12
Matilda Simmons stars as Mary Poppins in Riverside Girls High School production opening tonight pictrured
alongside Charlotte Aquaro, Emily Simmons, Lucy Pennington, Ainsley Burge and Laura Wachsmann. DETAILS
SEE INSIDE ON PAGE 6. TWT - On The Rooftops Of London – PHOTO.
Horses on the move...
R.I.P. Macquarie Community College
AGM Farce as
Directors Quit!
Macquarie Community College is in
crisis following last Wednesday’s
shambolic AGM. SEE PAGE 3.
WO
EN
IN BUSINESS
Our local MPs
dig deep to launch
the 2017 Red
Shield
Appeal.
Canada
Bay’s
K a s s a n d r a
Kashian is a
national finalist for
the Miss Grand
Australia
Quest.
Hunters
Hill
e c l i p s e s
Paddington as the
The iconic hit musical
Mary Poppins is staged
by Riverside Girls High
starring
Matilda
Simmons in the lead
role.
Macquarie
Community
College’s
AGM descends into
farce and the councillors
at the City of Ryde put
politics aside to blast
the State Government’s
The Weekly Times launches the West Ryde
Easter Parade and Fair this week with the
highlight being the TWT Ryde-Eastwood
Leagues Club Singing Star contest. Our
Managing Editor John F Booth is savagely
attacked by Ryde Mayor Colonel Bill
Pickering over this newspaper’s exposure of
a “ratepayer rort” with the Ryde Civic Centre.
Inside Sport: Sydney Cricket Club cap a
bumper year by capturing a NSW Premier
Cricket Double Championship.
hub of Sydney’s art scene with more exhibitions, more
art awards and more council sponsored art events.
Inside Sport: Wests Tigers stars Aaron Woods and
James Tedesco star for The NSW Blues in this week’s
State Of Origen clash in Queensland.
new Fire and Emergency Services Levy.
Inside Sport; Cyclists are urged to sign Victor
Dominello MP’s petition to get better lighting on the
John Whitton Bridge on the Parramatta River.