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- Dec- 2016 -12 December
FLY HIGH BILLIE
As many would be aware, our beautiful youngest daughter Billie was involved in a freak horse accident on May 29th.…
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THAT FIRST AUSSIE CHRISTMAS
December 1958, just on 58 years ago I arrived in Melbourne, Victoria aboard the ship “Fairsea” and what a change…
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BUSY YEAR IN PARLIAMENT WRAPS UP
With three weeks in Canberra in November, the Federal Government has finalised a busy legislative period. We have passed several…
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BENEDICTINE ORDER IN PARRAMATTA
The Benedictines were brought to Australia when the Roman Catholic archbishop in the colony, the English Benedictine Dr John Bede…
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BENEDICTINE ABBEY IN WEST PENNANT HILLS
The Benedictine sisters moved from Subiaco, Parramatta to their retreat in Franklin Road West Pennant Hills in 1957. The land…
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GINGER MEGGS – A LOCAL LAD
Ginger Meggs, a twelve year old school boy always up to mischief, was the creation of Hornsby cartoonist James Bancks.…
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RICHMOND RD UPGRADE DELIVERED 4 YEARS EARLY
The five kilometre $135 million upgrade of Richmond Road in Sydney’s north-west has been opened to traffic four years ahead…
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NSW GOVERNMENT SWITCHES ON ST ALBANS AND MACDONALD VALLEY
Residents in St Albans and the Macdonald Valley will soon be safer and better connected thanks to a new St…
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SUSTAINABLE CHRISTMAS
[vc_row][vc_column][us_post_title][vc_column_text]Your health and wellbeing are intimately connected to the health and wellbeing of the planet, and the WWF Living Planet…
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SUMMER FUN FOR KIDS at the HAWKESBURY LIBRARY SERVICE
Hawkesbury Library Service has a great range of activities these school holidays, so escape the heat and make this your…
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