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THE WEEKLY TIMES celebrates 

97 years of continuous 

publication this year and we 

look forward to enjoying the 

company of our legion of loyal 

readers, contributors and advertisers. 

Special thanks to our 

advertisers who make this publication 

possible. Without their 

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Continued Page 5 

Welcome to 2018! 

By The Weekly Times Editor John F Booth AM 

The Weekly Times has proudly served its 

readers and advertisers in north western Sydney 

‘s TWT Territory for nearly a century and 

in 2018 we’re rolling out some improvements 

to ensure we can continue to serve you for 

another 100 years. 

TWT is expanding our online presence and we plan 

to introduce a few new bells and whistles to help keep 

the conversation flowing in the week between each 

edition of our newspaper. 

This will include a website revamp and free registration 

for improved access to our archives and digital 

editions and breaking news alerts. 

Of course, to complement that, we’ll be increasing 

our social media activity across Facebook, Twitter, 

Google+, Instagram and LinkedIn where we hope to 

hear from you. 

Stay tuned, we’ll have plenty to announce about our 

plans over the coming year. 

IT’S BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH TWT! See page 5. 

INSIDE 

STARTS THIS WEEK ON PAGE 18 

TWT 2017 YEAR 

IN REVIEW 

PICTURED ABOVE: The Weekly Times editor John F Booth AM wishes all a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year 2018 as he greets all on stage at 

the annual TWT Rotary Christmas Carols Spectacular on North Ryde Common with Santa Claus, Carols musical director Roseanna Gallo OAM, compere 

Stephen Sim, Andrew Hill’s Singing and Dance Stars, TWT Granny Smith Festival Queen Jane Meney and TWT Gladesville Festival Singing Stars 

Callie Dibble and Annabelle Gross. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO. 

Cooking Competition Launch 

this Saturday SEE PAGE 7 

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20 at 7pm to demand immediate action on the Nelson Parade remediation project. They requested 

The Weekly Times editor John F Booth AM join them in a photo shoot to promote the meeting, 

pictured above. DETAILS INSIDE SEE PAGE 5. 

‘We Want Action’! 

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THIS WEEK is busy with 

Eastwood Chamber of 

Commerce meeting Monday 

at Club Eastwood with 

Epping MP Damian Tudehope 

guest speaker, Ryde Historical 

Society AGM Tuesday, 

Valentine’s Day Wednesday, 

Gordon Jardine’s funeral and 

Concord Hospital meeting 

Thursday and Eastwood 

Lunar New Year celebrations 

weekend. Plus plenty in 

between and of course the 

Hunters Hill meeting Tuesday. 

Continued on Page 3 

SCHOOL TO PARK 

Wednesday 7 March, 2018 THE WEEKLY TIMES 1 

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Two TWT readers can win Double Passes to Hunters Hill 

Theatre’s new production Perfect Nonsense on Saturday March 

24 in Hunters Hill Town Hall at 7.30pm. SEE PAGE 2. 

Ryde Hunters Hill Symphony 

Orchestra Concert 

Five TWT readers can win Double Passes to Ryde Hunters Hill 

Symphony Orchestra’s next concert on Sunday March 25 in 

North Ryde School of Arts Community Hall at 3pm. SEE PAGE 6. 

Sydney FC v Brisbane Roar 

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corner and we again bring 

you our famous West Ryde 

Easter Parade & Fair on 

Saturday week March 24 

celebrating 25 years when 

The Weekly Times and West 

Ryde Chamber of Commerce 

inaugurated the festival in the 

streets of West Ryde. This 

year we’re able to also use the 

West Ryde Market Place 

Plaza. See you there. 


Meadowbank Public School will be 

moved to a brand new ultra modern 

education centre near Ryde TAFE 

and the property will be turned into 

a new open space recreation area 

and community park. 

Ryde MP Victor Dominello announced the 

proposal outside the school grounds on 

Friday, pictured left, with City of Ryde 

Liberal Councillors Sarkis Yedelian OAM, 

Trenton Brown and Jordan Lane. TWT 

on-the-spot PHOTO. DETAILS SEE PAGE 3. 

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SEE PAGE 11 

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TWT Year in Review Part 3 ............. 22 

Handy Phone Guide ........................ 24-28 

Clubs & Sport ................................... 30-32 

JB’s World 

AUSTRALIA DAY Friday 

January 26 is nearly upon us 

again and early voting in our 

polls on the date of Australia 

Day is strongly favouring 

retention of the existing date. 

We will close the polls next 

week so you still have a chance 

to express your preference on 

any of the sites we have 

available including the web, 

Facebook, twitter, email and 

post. Love to hear from you. 

Meanwhile have a great 

Australia Day this Friday. 


Wednesday January 20, 2016 




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Locals 

Honoured 

Australia Day celebrations in TWT Territory see pages 5, 6 & 7 

BAIRD’S SNEAKY 

MEETINGS 

BY OUR CHIEF CIVIC ROUNDSMAN 

Dictator Premier Baird and his sidekick henchman minister 

for Mega Councils Toole were not content with announcing 

the death of Local Government on the eve of Christmas when 

Parliament was in recess but have followed up with another 

scam. 

They’re really scraping at the bottom of the barrel. How 

low can you get and still seek credibility and respect? The 

hypocrisy is mind boggling. 

How many citizens would know that Baird and co have 

arranged “public” meetings to have the final say on council 

mergers? 

The only announcement was a jumble of nondescript 

advertisements in the two daily papers and not a word to the 

local press or community. 

They’re obviously seeking an award for the best kept political 

secret of the year. 

SEE PAGE 3. 

TWT wins Ryde 

Event of Year! 

The Weekly Times has been awarded Ryde City 

Event of the Year by Ryde Council with Ryde RSL 

and Meadowbank Public School for the school’s 

commemoration of Anzac Centenary. SEE PAGE 7. 

Australia Day 2016 

F A 

Let's Celebrate 

Balmain Sinfonia Summer Concert 

TWT readers can win Double Passes to Balmain 

Sinfonia’s Summer Afternoon of classical music Sunday 

December 6 at Macquarie Theatre. SEE PAGE 2. 

Camerata Academica Charity Concert 

Four TWT readers can win Double Passes to Camerata 

Academica of the Antipodes charity fundraising concert 

Saturday December 5. SEE PAGE 2. 

Elysian Fields Band Launch 

Three TWT readers can win Double Passes to new band 

Elysian Fields launch Wednesday November 25. SEE PAGE 2. 

WIN with TWT! 

REMEMBRANCE DAY 2015 

‘We Did Remember Them’ 

Australia’s first female Yellow Wiggle Emma Watkins was 

TWT Teen Queen in 2005 and continues to support the 

Quest and launched last year’s contest, pictured with Teen 

Queen Johanna Sciancalepore. SEE PAGE 9. 

Meadowbank Public School pupils set a good 

example to the community honouring those who 

served and paid the Supreme Sacrifice in World War 

1 lead by their history teacher Ms Lynne Gittoes. 

SEE PAGE 14. 

Remembrance Day services will be observed 

throughout TWT Territory today. SEE PAGE 14. 

We Remembered 

AUSTRALIA DAY is 

traditionally a time of 

celebration on a national and 

local scale when we pay our 

respects to the past and look 

forward with confidence to the 

future. 

If dictator premier Mike 

Baird and his sidekick 

footsToole minister for Mega 

Councils have their ways it 

will be the last year we’ll have 

Oz Day celebrations for Ryde, 

Hunters Hill and Lane Cove 

council areas. More the pity. 

SEE PAGE 7 



BUT SHOULD IT BE ON JANUARY 26? 

Former Ryde Counci lor Justin Li was celebrated at a surprise Dinner party at Kings Seafood restaurant Eastwood Plaza last Friday for ten years as 

founding organisor of Eastwood’s Lunar New Year celebrations. He is pictured with festival secretary Bonnie Lui, chairman Hugh Lee OAM and The Weekly 

Times editor John F Booth AM holding a festival 2018 10 years program in the Year of the Dog. See more Page 7. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO. 

The Weekly Times readers have voted in your hundreds 

on the question of keeping Australia Day on January 

26. The po l is continuing on our website, email, post, 

Facebook and twitter for one more week. And your 

Letters are welcome. SEE PAGES 5 & 6. 

Congratulations ex Clr Justin Li 

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AUSTRALIA DAY this year 

was attempted to be taken 

over by anarchists protesting 

January 26 as our proper and 

appropriate national day 

although our Have YOUR 

Say! poll indicated a large 

majority supported retention 

of the current date. Meanwhile 

we are receiving favourable 

comments on our updated 

website and Facebook and 

Twitter. 


Wednesday January 20, 2016 




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for Balmain 

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Club! Page 32 

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SEE PAGE 6 

ORDER OF 

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Locals 

Honoured 

Australia Day celebrations in TWT Territory see pages 5, 6 & 7 

BAIRD’S SNEAKY 

MEETINGS 

BY OUR CHIEF CIVIC ROUNDSMAN 

Dictator Premier Baird and his sidekick henchman minister 

for Mega Councils Toole were not content with announcing 

the death of Local Government on the eve of Christmas when 

Parliament was in recess but have followed up with another 

scam. 

They’re really scraping at the bottom of the barrel. How 

low can you get and still seek credibility and respect? The 

hypocrisy is mind boggling. 

How many citizens would know that Baird and co have 

arranged “public” meetings to have the final say on council 

mergers? 

The only announcement was a jumble of nondescript 

advertisements in the two daily papers and not a word to the 

local press or community. 

They’re obviously seeking an award for the best kept political 

secret of the year. 

SEE PAGE 3. 

TWT wins Ryde 

Event of Year! 

The Weekly Times has been awarded Ryde City 

Event of the Year by Ryde Council with Ryde RSL 

and Meadowbank Public School for the school’s 

commemoration of Anzac Centenary. SEE PAGE 7. 


F A 


Balmain Sinfonia Summer Concert 

TWT readers can win Double Passes to Balmain 

Sinfonia’s Summer Afternoon of classical music Sunday 

December 6 at Macquarie Theatre. SEE PAGE 2. 

Camerata Academica Charity Concert 

Four TWT readers can win Double Passes to Camerata 

Academica of the Antipodes charity fundraising concert 

Saturday December 5. SEE PAGE 2. 

Elysian Fields Band Launch 

Three TWT readers can win Double Passes to new band 

Elysian Fields launch Wednesday November 25. SEE PAGE 2. 

WIN with TWT! 

REMEMBRANCE DAY 2015 

‘We Did Remember Them’ 

Australia’s first female Yellow Wiggle Emma Watkins was 

TWT Teen Queen in 2005 and continues to support the 

Quest and launched last year’s contest, pictured with Teen 

Queen Johanna Sciancalepore. SEE PAGE 9. 

Meadowbank Public School pupils set a good 

example to the community honouring those who 

served and paid the Supreme Sacrifice in World War 

1 lead by their history teacher Ms Lynne Gittoes. 

SEE PAGE 14. 

Remembrance Day services will be observed 

throughout TWT Territory today. SEE PAGE 14. 

We Remembered 

AUSTRALIA DAY is 

traditionally a time of 

celebration on a national and 

local scale when we pay our 

respects to the past and look 

forward with confidence to the 

future. 

If dictator premier Mike 

Baird and his sidekick 

footsToole minister for Mega 

Councils have their ways it 

will be the last year we’ll have 

Oz Day celebrations for Ryde, 

Hunters Hill and Lane Cove 

council areas. More the pity. 

SEE PAGES 8, 9 & 10 

TWT Territory celebrated Australia Day to 

the full last Friday and continued on over 

the weekend that followed. 

HUNTERS HILL celebrated with a 

citizenship ceremony and festivities in the 

Town Hall when Jenny Nylund was named 

Citizen of the Year and Benjamin Jones 

Young Citizen. Details SEE PAGES 6 & 19. 

RYDE awarded Salvation Army officer 

Nathan Moulds Citizen of the Year with 

Rhett Prado of Ryde State Emergency 

Service Young Citizen of Year 2018. 

INNER WEST COUNCIL: Dennis Laris of 

Ashfield and Sylvana Mahmic of 

Marrickville are joint Citizens of the Year. 

CITY OF CANADA BAY: Concord Hospital’s 

Director of Marketing and Community 

Relations Alice Kang is Citizen Of The 

Year. 

NATHAN MOULDS of Ryde Salvation 

Army was awarded Ryde Citizen of 

the Year 2018 on Australia Day at 

North Ryde Community Centre. 

He is pictured with Ryde’s Young 

Citizen of the Year Rhett Prado and 

Ryde Mayor Clr Jerome Laxale and 

Ryde Australia Day Ambassador 

Sonia Sadiq Gandhi. TWT on-thespot 

PHOTO. 

SEE MORE PAGE 18. 

EGM in Hunters Hill 

Town Hall Thursday 

Hunters Hill Council has called an 

Extraordinary General Meeting in Hunters Hill 

Town Hall tomorrow (Thursday) night at 

6.30pm to discuss the State Government’s 

new Planning Laws. SEE PAGE 7. 

CONGRATULATIONS! 

DR John F Knight 

AM NSW Senior 

Citizen of the 

Year 2017 

congratulates 

Ryde born Dr 

Catherine Hamlin 

AC on being 

awarded NSW 

Senior Citizen of 

the Year 2018. 

SEE PAGE 7. 

RYDE CITIZEN OF YEAR 

You are never lonely at ... Vimiera Retirement Village 

DR. JOHN F. KNIGHT AM 

“Australian Of The Year for 2017” 

(NSW-SNR) 

Also known as Dr. James Wright 

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Wishing you all a happy & safe 

AustrAliA DAy! 

FROM DR. JOHN F. KNIGHT AM 


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WEST RYDE Easter Parade 

& Fair is the next local major 

community festival in TWT 

Territory-now in its 25th year 

-started by The Weekly Times 

with West Ryde Chamber of 

Commerce in 1993 to help 

rejuvenate the then-ailing 

area. Festival starts with the 

Easter Parade from Miriam 

Park at 9.15am to the Fair in 

West Ryde Market Place and 

Market Street on Saturday 

March 24. 



Hunters Hill & Ryde Concerts 

Three TWT readers have won Double Passes to this Sunday’s 

Hunters Hill Music concert featuring flautist Melissa Doecke 

and pianist Mark Isaacs while five TWT readers can win Double 

Passes to Ryde Eastwood Music Club’s March 14 concert. Plus 

two readers can win Double Passes to a Prelude in Tea series 

concert with legendary Jose Carbo. SEE PAGE 2 

Whatever It Takes Book 

Three TWT readers can win copies of a new soccer book 

Whatever It Takes: The Inside Story of the FIFA Way by Bonita 

Mersiades. SEE PAGE 14. 

Eastwood’s Lunar New Year celebrations 

continued last Saturday with the turning 

on of over 800 Chinese lanterns in 

Eastwood Plaza and will culminate with 

this Saturday’s Grand Celebration 

flagship event on the Plaza from 11am. 

SEE DETAILS PAGE 11 

Eastwood Lights Up! 

Lane Cove MP Anthony Roberts and Ryde MP Victor Dominello were 

severely criticised at last week’s Decontaminate Hunters Hill Public 

Meeting in Hunters Hill Town Hall. SEE PAGES 6 and 7. 

Local MPs Rubbished at 

Town Hall Public Meeting 

SEE PAGE 21 

TWT on-the-spot PHOTO 

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60 Years! Page 32 








JB’s World 

HUGH LEE OAM our 

good friend from 

Eastwood Chinese Senior 

Citizens ever obliging to 

help this week explains 

the significance of the 

Chinese Year of the Dog 

in an exclusive interview 

on Page 3. And the Lunar 

New Year celebrations 

start next week in 

Eastwood. Read all about 

it on Page 3. 

THE WEEKLY TIMES Club Six/Ryde Sports Foundation Sports Stars of the Year Louise Sauvage of West Ryde and 

Simone Kennedy of Ryde along with Andrew Hill of AJH Sports participated in the Queen’s Baton Relay last Sunday at 

Sydney Olympic Park in the lead up to the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. They are pictured front with 

other batonbearers who helped carry a message from Queen Elizabeth II on its path to the Games’ opening ceremony. 

Bring 

on The Games! 

STOP PRESS 

NEW GM AT RYDE 

COUNCIL. SEE PAGE 3 

John 

Alexander 

back in 

Parliament 

SEE PAGE 3 


2018 Year 

of The 

New Look 

Tigers! Page 32 



Wednesday March 7 2018 






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GOING UNDERGROUND 

Lane Cove’s new carpark revealed 

WORK has started on a new 180 spot underground car park in Lane 

Cove and Mayor Pam Palmer (pictured) joined The Weekly Times on 

site to announce this exciting new development. This multi-million 

dollar development behind Lane Cove Plaza is being built by ADCO 

and is being called the Rosenthal Project. It will include a Coles 

Supermarket an Aldi Store and an open air performance space and 

a community park. There will be four levels of underground parking 

and the development will take 18 months to build. SEE PAGE 3. 

JB’s World 

GREETINGS 

FROM 

Kathmandu in Nepal where JB is 

currently representing Australia 

at an Asia-Pacific committee 

meeting of the International Scout 

and Guide Fellowship where we 

are discussing helping Scouting 

and Guiding in this farflung 

country and planning the next 

region Gathering in Sri Lanka in 

September this year. Sorry I 

missed the last day of Eastwood’s 

Lunar New Year celebrations but 

will be back for West Ryde’s 

Easter Parade & Fair on Saturday 

March 24. See you there? 


The Mercy Movie Passes 

Ten TWT readers have won Double Passes to the 2018 

biographical drama film The Mercy to be released in cinemas on 

March 8 courtesy of independent film distributors Studio Canal. 

SEE PAGE 2. 

Jose Carbo Trio Concert 

Two TWT readers have won Double Passes to this Sunday’s 

Prelude in Tea Series concert with the legendary Jose Carbo 

at the Independent Theatre North Sydney from 2.30pm. SEE 

PAGE 2. 


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JB’s World 

AUSTRALIA DAY seems to 

increasingly bring out the 

would-be PC brigade protesting 

January 26 as our 

national celebration day. 

Previously known as Anniversary 

Day commemorating 

the birth of our modern 

multicultural nation, he dissidents 

believe Australia Day 

ignores our earlier or original 

inhabitants. 

This week we invite you to 

have your say and give us 

your opinion. See page 5. 

Continued Page 5 

INSIDE 

PART 2 THIS WEEK ON PAGE 22 

TWT 2017 YEAR 

IN REVIEW 



Also INSIDE This Week: 

Cathies Column ............................. 4 

Letters to Editor ............................ 6 

Australia Day events ..................... 5-9 

Dance & Performing Arts .............. 11 

North Ryde RSL Club .................... 16,17 

Handy Phone Guide ...................... 24-28 

Clubs & Sport ................................. 30-32 

BUT SHOULD IT BE ON JANUARY 26? 

Australia 

Day Guest 

Speakers 

SONIA SADIQ GHANDI, pictured, is guest 

speaker at Ryde’s Australia Day Citizenship 

Ceremony in North Ryde School of 

Arts Community Hall on Friday week January 

26 at 11am. SEE PAGE 8. 

CATHERINE SAXELBY is Hunters Hill’s 

Australia Day Ambassador and will speak 

in Hunters Hill Town Hall on Australia Day 

from 9am. SEE PAGE 6. 

AUSTRALIA DAY FEATURE PAGES 5-9 

Have YOUR Say! 

We invite readers to Have YOUR 

Say on issues that matter to you! 

This week we invite you to comment 

on the calls to change Australia 

Day from what some dissidents 

have renamed “Invasion 

Day”. 

Contact us and Have YOUR Say! 

SEE PAGE 5. 

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DR GEOFF LEE MP for 

Parramatta was the winner of 

last Saturday’s Lunar New 

Year cooking competition on 

Eastwood Plaza with what he 

confided to me was a secret 

family recipe passed down from 

his grandmother which 

certainly caught the judges eye. 

He called it Zhongshan 

Dumplings. Runners-up were 

Ryde Clr Trenton Brown with 

Curry Chicken Rice and third 

was Alexandra and John 

Kollias of Mazzei’s Pharmacy 

with Italian and Thai Fusion 

Risotto. Continued on Page 3 

Lunar New Year Celebrations 

OFFICIAL OPENING ON EASTWOOD PLAZA 

Eastwood’s 10th Annual Lunar New Year Celebrations in the Year of the Dog was officially launched on Eastwood 

Plaza last Saturday. 

Pictured above l to r standing Bonnie Lui Festival secretary, Clr Trenton Brown, Parramatta MP Dr Geoff Lee 

winner of the cooking competition, Festival God of Fortune, Clr Penny Pedersen, Ryde Mayor Clr Jerome Laxale, 

Dog mascot, Ryde MP Victor Dominello, Bennelong MP John Alexander OAM, Festival chairman Hugh Lee 

OAM and Clr Bernard Purcell and kneeling Councillors Chris Moujalli, Simon Zhou, Dr Peter Kim and Jordan 

Lane. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO. 

SEE MORE LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION REPORTS & PHOTOS INSIDE PAGES 10, 11, 12. 


Hunters Hill Music Concert 

Three TWT readers can win Double Passes to 

Hunters Hill Music’s first concert of the 2018 season 

on Sunday March 4 featuring flautist Melissa Doecke 

and pianist Mark Isaacs in Hunters Hill Town Hall 

at 2.30pm. SEE PAGE 2 

Vicki Musical Play 

Two TWT readers have won Double Passes to 

this Friday’s opening night of Lane Cove Theatre 

Company’s new musical play Vicki at The 

Performance Space: St Aidan’s Longueville at 

7.30pm. SEE PAGE 2. 

Winchester Movie Passes 

Ten TWT readers have won Double Passes to the new 

supernatural horror film Winchester to be released 

in cinemas on February 22, courtesy of independent 

film distributors Studio Canal. SEE PAGE 2. 

Lane Cove MP and Planning Minister 

Anthony Roberts has promised 

to personally supervise the cleanup 

of radio active waste in Nelson 

Parade Hunters Hill following last 

week’s page 1 call in The Weekly 

Times. SEE PAGE 7. 

ROBERTS PLEDGES CLEANUP 

TWT EXCLUSIVE 

$341 million wing PAGE 20 

New Concord Hospital 

PUBLIC OUTRAGE 









Hunters Hill Theatre Play 

TWT readers have won Double Passes to Hunters Hill Theatre’s 

Perfect Nonsense this Saturday at 7.30pm. SEE PAGE 2. 

RHHS Orchestra Concert 

Five TWT readers have won Double Passes to Ryde Hunters Hill 

Symphony Orchestra’s concert this Sunday at 3pm. SEE PAGE 2. 

Three readers won Double Passes to Sydney FC’s game last Saturday. 


JB’s World 

WEST RYDE will come alive 

this Saturday when the 25th 

annual West Ryde Easter 

Parade & Fair will be 

celebrated in the streets and 

West Ryde Plaza from 9am 

while up the line in Eastwood 

the Harmony Cup Soccer 

Tournament will kick off at 

8.30am with eight teams on 

Eastwood Oval and 

presentation at 1pm. All 

welcome. 


PAGE 13 

Hunters Hill residents have protested Property 

NSW bureaucrats banning The Weekly Times attending 

last week’s Decontamination community 

meeting. SEE PAGE 3. 

TWT Banned by 

Dominello Dept 

Tigers 

Too Hot 

for 2017 

Premiers! Page 32 

West Ryde Easter Parade 

& Fair This Saturday 

All roads lead to West Ryde this Saturday for the 25th annual West Ryde Easter Parade 

& Fair in the streets of West Ryde and in West Ryde Plaza. 

Fair opens at 9am with a record number of street 

stalls, craft, food, novelties, rides and children’s entertainments 

including a petting zoo and reptiles display. 

Grand Easter Parade kicks off from Miriam Park at 9.15am 

led by dancers and musicians of West Ryde’s Church of the 

Good Shepherd and local churches followed by school groups, 

sporting and social clubs to the official opening stage on West 

Ryde Plaza. 

Over $5,500 in prizes can be won for Best Easter Bonnets in 

the Grand Parade, Best Decorated Wheels and $2,000 cash 

is up for grabs in the TWT Ryde-Eastwood Hawks Gold Cup 

Singing Star Contest conducted by Roseanna Gallo OAM. 

FULL DETAILS SEE PAGES 8 & 9 

$5,500 

Over $5,500 prizes will be won on the day for Best Entry 

Easter Bonnets in the Grand Parade, Best Decorated 

Wheels, Best Bunting entry and TWT Poster Coloring 

Contest including $2,000 cash for TWT Ryde Eastwood 

Hawks Gold Cup Singing Star Contest on West Ryde 

Plaza. DETAILS SEE PAGES 8 AND 9 

in Prizes to Win! 

PICTURED ABOVE: Prizewinners in the Best Decorated Easter Bonnets competition at last year’s West Ryde Easter Parade 

& Fair. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO. 


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Charisma Trio Music Concert 

Three TWT readers can win Double Passes to 

Hunters Hill Music’s Sunday April 8 concert 

featuring the Charisma Trio in Hunters Hill 

Town Hall at 2.30pm. SEE PAGE 2. 

Ryde Eastwood Music Concert 

Five TWT readers can win Double Passes 

to Ryde Eastwood Music Club’s April 11 

concert featuring the NSW Police Band 

Wind Quintet. SEE PAGE 14. 

Sydney FC v Adelaide Passes 

Three TWT readers can win Double Passes 

to Sydney FC’s A League clash with Adelaide 

United on Sunday April 8 at Allianz Stadium 

at 7pm. SEE PAGE 20 

Harmony Day book launch 

Five TWT readers can win copies of 

“Footprints & Voices” launched on 

Harmony Day. SEE PAGE 6. 


JB’s World 

EASTER IS many things to 

different people. To some of us, 

including JB, it is a most 

important religious time 

commemorating the crucifixion 

and resurrection of Jesus 

Christ the saviour of the world 

while to others it is the time of 

the Royal Easter Show and to 

others a four days holiday. 

Whichever is your choice I 

hope it is a time of good health 

and safety and refreshment to 

you and yours. 


PAGES 12 & 13 

Tigers 

heading to 

Grand Final 

Glory! Page 32 


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EASTER SALE 

Saturday 31st March . 10am-2pm 

Bring the kids and join in the fun at 

Petting Zoo, Face Painting, Magic Show & more 

easter festival 

Midway’s FREE Easter Festival. 


117 North Rd, Denistone East 

Joyous Easter to All... 

The 

Weekly 

Times first paperboy 

Arthur 

Mashford 

of 

Hunters 

Hill 

celebrates 105 

not out this 

Tuesday. 

SEE PAGE 3. 

OUR FIRST PAPERBOY 105 n.o.! 

Community leaders led the Easter Parade to Saturday’s 25th annual West Ryde Easter Fair. See details inside. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO. 

THE WEEKLY TIMES Club Six/Ryde Sports 

Foundation Sports Stars of the Year team up for 

a front page photograph in the lead up to the 

2018 Commonwealth Games. 

Bennelong MP John Alexander is back in 

Federal Parliament after a recent, resounding by 

election win and we reveal plans to revamp the 

Gladesville Shopping Centre strip on Victoria 

Road. 

INSIDE SPORT: The North Ryde Hawks Junior 

Rugby League Club celebrates its Diamond 

Jubilee and six decades of football success. 

*** 

LANE COVE Mayor Pam Palmer exclusively 

reveals plans to build a super car park and a 

community venue - called the Rosenthal 

Project - behind Lane Cove Plaza. 

The City of Ryde takes action to improve 

child pedestrian safety outside Ryde Public 

School while at Our Lady Queen of Peace 

Catholic School in Gladesville students hold an 

old fashioned Teddy Bears Picnic. 

INSIDE SPORT: The North Sydney Bears 

launch a womens rugby league team to play in 

the Harvey Norman NSW Womens Premiership. 

**** 

SANTA CLAUS arrives on the North Ryde 

Common for the annual TWT Rotary Christmas 

Carols Spectacular alongside TWT Granny Smith 

Festival Queen Jane Meney and a cavalcade of 

local celebrities. 

It was all light on the night on the Common but 

40,000 homes in Gladesville, Hunters Hill and 

Lane Cove were plunged into darkness due to a 

massive power grid failure blamed on air conditioning 

use in 40 degree temperatures. 

INSIDE SPORT unveils a new look Tigers side 

under super coach Ivan Cleary which includes a 

return home for club immortal Benji Marshall. 

**** 

HUNTERS HILL residents protest outside the 

Town Hall alongside TWT Managing Editor John 

F Booth AM and demand immediate action from 

our local politicians to remove the radio active 

waste in Nelson Parade. 

In nearby Bonnefin Road, tension between 

neighbours reaches boiling point as some residents 

illegally park SUVs on the footpath due to 

a critical shortage of on street parking. 

INSIDE SPORT: The Balmain Leagues Club 

and Grand Rozelle reveal plans to build a new 

leagues club at the Tigers spiritual home on 

Victoria Road. 

*** 

MEADOWBANK Public School is to be bulldozed 

to make way for a new park under a plan revealed 

by Ryde MP Victor Dominello. Students will be 

relocated to a new school at Meadowbank TAFE. 

A new bridge to span the Parramatta River at 

Meadowbank is unveiled by Parramatta Lord Mayor 

Andrew Wilson and Parramatta MP Geoff Lee. 

The childrens playground in Meadowbank is 

torched by vandals. 

INSIDE SPORT: The Tigers 2018 fixture list is 

revealed with the opening game being a great win 

over the upcoming Premiers, the Bondi Chicks! 

*** 

OUR LOCAL Australia Day Ambassadors are 

announced as readers are invited to Have A Say 

on whether or not Australia Day should be 

renamed Invasion Day or celebrated at all. 

In crime news, we uncover a sickening phone 

scam that targets elderly people in Hunters Hill 

while Meadowbank photographer Laura Del Arte 

is named as a finalist in the National Photographic 

Portrait Prize. 

INSIDE SPORT: Four Tigers have been chosen 

by NSW Blues State Of Origin Coach Brad Fittler. 

It promises to be a big season for the Tigers! 

**** 

EASTWOOD lights up for the Year of the Dog but 

the real fireworks are at the Hunters Hill Town Hall 

where angry residents blast Ryde MP Victor 

Dominello and Lane Cove MP Anthony Roberts for 

years of inaction to clean up the radio active waste 

in Nelson Parade. 

City of Ryde Deputy Mayor Simon Zhou and The 

Weekly Times find one of the freshly minted counterfeit 

notes circulating in Eastwood. 

INSIDE SPORT: The Tigers confirm their premiership 

credentials with wins in all five grades at the 

Campbelltown weekend football fiesta. 

**** 

The Easter Bunny hops onto the front page as we 

feature the Best Decorated Easter Bonnets 

Competition winners. The Weekly Times presents a 

comprehensive list of church services. 

One hundred and one year old Edith Easton 

recalls her wartime service in The Battle of Britain 

and reveals how much life has changed since this 

first, great victory over Nazi Germany. 

INSIDE SPORT: Eastwood Rugby’s inspirational 

netballer Emily Keenan is featured as she achieves a 

lifelong dream to play for the NSW Swifts. 

**** 

COMMUNITY leaders carry the torch through 

West Ryde at the annual Easter Parade and The 

Weekly Times first paper boy Arthur Mashford of 

Hunters Hill celebrates his 105th birthday ! 

Hunters Hill mens barber Sam Rahim is hit with 

legal action for not cutting and girl’s hair. Our exclusive 

story on how the girl’s lawyer mum took the 

legal action goes on to make national and international 

news. 

INSIDE SPORT: The undefeated new look Tigers 

led by super coach Ivan Cleary go top of the table 

with wins against highly fancied opposition. 

**** 

EASTWOOD CELEBRITIES Justin Li, Hugh Lee 

OAM, Bonnie Lui and TWT Managing Editor John F 

Booth AM launch the Year of the Dog. This year 

mark’s the 10th Anniversary of Eastwwod’s Official 

Asian Lunar New Year Festival. 

Hunters Hill celebrates the Centenary of the 

founding of the famous Australian 3rd Squadron 

which played a vital role in the capture of the 

German howitzer gun, now on display outside the 

Town Hall. 

INSIDE SPORT: The Birchgrove Scorpions Junior 

Rugby League Club took a trip back in time to the 

1970s and 1980s with a nostalgic reunion. 

**** 

RYDE SALVATION ARMY stalwart Nathan Moulds 

is named Ryde Citizen of the Year at the Australia 

Day celebration at the North Ryde Community 

Centre. 

Hunters Hill’s Dr Sakuko Matsui leads a distinguished 

cast list of local Australia Day award winners 

and Ryde’s Catherine Hamlin AC is named 

NSW Senior Citizen of the Year. 

INSIDE SPORT: Eastwood celebrates the 60th 

Anniversary of Eastwood St Andrews FC, which 

traces its roots to the early days of Scottish football. 

**** 

ACTION by The Weekly Times pays off as Lane 

Cove MP Anthony Roberts gives a commitment to 

have the radio active waste in Nelson Parade 

cleaned up while Eastwood starts weeks of Asian 

Lunar Year celebrations. 

Ryde Council unanimously votes to overturn the 

controversial ‘ do it yourself ’ heritage policy of 

former Mayor Colonel Bill Pickering and gives heritage 

protection status to dozens of local historic 

homes. 

INSIDE SPORT: North Ryde cricketers raise $11, 

156 for the McGrath Foundation during the club’s 

annual Pink Stumps Charity Day. 

**** 

28/3/18 

2018 saw The Weekly 

Times fight for our 

readers and win ! 

We were at the 

forefront of a 

successful campaign 

to have the state 

government put a 

freeze on high rise 

development madness 

in Ryde as well as 

moving our local MPs 

to act to clean up the 

toxic waste in Nelson 

Parade, Hunters Hill. 

Also in Hunters Hill, 

this 

newspaper’s 

exclusive report on 

Sam Rahim - the mens 

barber taken to court 

for refusing to cut a 

girl’s hair - made 

national 

and 

international news. 

We were also the first 

newspaper to break 

the news of Hunters 

Hill Council’s decision 

to oppose a plan for a 

new shopping centre 

in Gladesville as well 

as a plan to double 

the number of low 

flying aircraft over the 

heritage municipality. 

In the City of Ryde we 

were the first to reveal 

plans to close 

Meadowbank 

Public 

School and Marsden 

High School, which 

will become parks and 

sports fields under a 

proposal to build a 

new school at 

Meadowbank TAFE. 

Inside Sport went 

soccer mad during the 

FIFA World Cup Finals 

and we followed a 

dramatic year for the 

Tigers, which narrowly 

missed out on the 

semi-finals. 

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