The Weekly Times - TWT - 20 February 2019
The Weekly Times - TWT - cheekily describes itself as a campaigning, crusading, truth-seeking, death defying, Aussie battler-aligned, one-eyed-Tiger-led news organisation dedicated to Sydney's north west. It's one of the few remaining independently run community newspapers and turns 100 years old in 2021 - so if you want to show your support for independent media, have a quick look at the paper, submit a letter to the editor via its website or like or share one of its posts on social media. The flip book - or digital edition/replica - of the 20th February 2019 edition of TWT can be reached here: https://weeklytimes.com.au/the-weekly-times-twt-20th-February-2019/ And the most current edition of TWT is always reachable using this short address: bit.ly/OurTWT
The Weekly Times - TWT - cheekily describes itself as a campaigning, crusading, truth-seeking, death defying, Aussie battler-aligned, one-eyed-Tiger-led news organisation dedicated to Sydney's north west.
It's one of the few remaining independently run community newspapers and turns 100 years old in 2021 - so if you want to show your support for independent media, have a quick look at the paper, submit a letter to the editor via its website or like or share one of its posts on social media.
The flip book - or digital edition/replica - of the 20th February 2019 edition of TWT can be reached here: https://weeklytimes.com.au/the-weekly-times-twt-20th-February-2019/
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10 THE WEEKLY TIMES Wednesday <strong>20</strong> <strong>February</strong>, <strong>20</strong>19<br />
JOHN ALEXANDER OAM MP<br />
FEDERAL MEMBER FOR BENNELONG<br />
Seniors Week <strong>20</strong>19<br />
Recognising<br />
the<br />
considerable<br />
contributions<br />
made by<br />
Seniors to our<br />
community<br />
32 Beecroft Rd Epping 2121 Phone: 9869 4288<br />
Email: John.Alexander.MP@aph.gov.au<br />
Web: www.johnalexander.net.au Facebook: John Alexander MP<br />
Authorised by John Alexander MP; Liberal Party of Australia; 32 Beecroft Rd Epping NSW, 2121<br />
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NSW SENIORS FESTIVAL<br />
Ryde library a focus of seniors celebration<br />
A TALK on Ryde’s World War One house names will<br />
be held at the City of Ryde Library this Thursday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> talk will offer a<br />
glimpse into how these<br />
houses got their names<br />
and how they are linked to<br />
often personal stories, Local<br />
Studies Librarian Angela<br />
Phippen said.<br />
“I thought it would relate<br />
solely to battle names but<br />
very soon realised that<br />
ship names and personal<br />
names, such as the names<br />
of soldiers or famous generals<br />
such as Allenby were<br />
also attached to houses,”<br />
she said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> ship names are interesting:<br />
widows some-<br />
ebration is being held in<br />
conjunction with the NSW<br />
times named their house<br />
Seniors Festival and the<br />
after the ship that took<br />
events being held in the<br />
their husband away; returning<br />
soldiers named<br />
City of Ryde are designed to<br />
provide seniors with the opportunity<br />
to learn about the<br />
their house after the ship<br />
that brought them home.”<br />
services available to them<br />
Does Angela Phippen<br />
in the local area, encourage<br />
have a favourite story ?<br />
them to try new experiences<br />
“I do have a favourite<br />
and also meet other senior<br />
because it’s a story about<br />
residents.<br />
love and life, not death.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Get Active Session at<br />
“Nick Carter was blinded<br />
Kissing Point Park will also<br />
during the war; physically<br />
be held this Thursday and<br />
lost both eyes.<br />
the Senior Health and Wellbeing<br />
Expo will be held at<br />
“He was sent to a rehabilitation<br />
hospital for the<br />
the Gordon Baptist Church<br />
blind in England, called St<br />
on <strong>February</strong> 22.<br />
Dunstan’s.<br />
City of Ryde Mayor Jerome<br />
Laxale invited Ryde’s<br />
Mayor Jerome Laxale is pictured with Jan Eagleton,<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re, out the front, was<br />
Secretary of the Phillip Group of the Country Womens<br />
a Red Cross worker, Hilda<br />
senior citizens to the events.<br />
Association at Ryde Library on Friday. <strong>TWT</strong> on-thespot<br />
PHOTO<br />
Nancarrow.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Seniors Celebration<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y fell in love, married<br />
and Nick returned<br />
is a great way to recognise<br />
the valuable contribution Session times for the <strong>The</strong> Seniors Celebration<br />
to Australia with his new<br />
seniors make to the local World War One talk can be is supported by the Country<br />
Womens Association<br />
bride and bought a house<br />
community through staging obtained by phoning the<br />
in Eastwood and re-named<br />
a wide variety of events that library on 9952 8352 on and other groups supporting<br />
seniors in our commu-<br />
it St Dunstan’s.”<br />
are tailored for a range of interests<br />
and hobbies.” www.ryde.nsw.gov.au nity.<br />
via City of Ryde website:<br />
This week’s Seniors Cel-<br />
Seniors Festival events in Lane Cove<br />
LANE Cove Council will celebrate this month’s Seniors Festival program with a photography<br />
workshop and a cheeky story telling event.<br />
<strong>The</strong> free Improving your<br />
Photography Workshop<br />
will be held this Wednesday<br />
(<strong>February</strong> <strong>20</strong>) from<br />
10am to noon at the Living<br />
and Learning Centre<br />
at 180 Longueville Road,<br />
Lane Cove.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> essence of a photograph<br />
is independent of<br />
the camera used to take<br />
it and this session describes<br />
making improvements<br />
to your photos,<br />
whether using a phone,<br />
point and shoot or the<br />
more expensive through<br />
the lens camera,” the<br />
team at Lane Cove Council<br />
said.<br />
“This is an opportunity<br />
to learn how to improve<br />
your photos at the time<br />
of capture and use basic<br />
editing processing with<br />
Windows 10.”<br />
Types of photos described<br />
will include family,<br />
travel and landscape.<br />
To book online www.<br />
lcphotographyworkshop.<br />
eventbrite.com or call<br />
9911 3591<br />
<strong>The</strong> Raunchy Romance<br />
Storytime @ Lane Cove<br />
Library will be held at<br />
Lane Cove Library, Library<br />
Walk, Lane Cove<br />
on Monday, <strong>February</strong> 25<br />
from 6:30pm to 8:pm<br />
“Take one romance<br />
book lover, let her loose<br />
with a line-up of Australian<br />
actors and performers<br />
and get a night of the<br />
raunchiest, naughtiest,<br />
funniest, swooniest stories<br />
around,” the team<br />
said.<br />
“Once again we are excited<br />
to present this special<br />
adults-only storytime<br />
featuring Megan Alston,<br />
Steve Lynch and Tim McIntyre.<br />
“To make this event<br />
even more exciting we<br />
won’t be revealing the titles<br />
and authors until just<br />
before the show.”<br />
To book online www.<br />
romancestorytime.eventbrite.com<br />
or call 9911<br />
3591<br />
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