Glenorie Bakery Applies for Liquor Licence
As many residents know, Glenorie Bakery is a popular destination for many people throughout Sydney. Recent renovations and the installation of a Bakery museum have proved very popular in drawing people to Glenorie. Owner, Rob Pirina, and his manager Adrian Benbrick, have been very resourceful in their marketing efforts making Glenorie Bakery a well known […]
Heartbeats
World Champions Mason Neil travelled to Tacoma in Seattle on August 5th to support his close friend Cameron Osborne who was competing in the worlds water ski championships. Cameron and other fellow team mates had qualified to represent Australia by competing in local, state and national races over the past two years. Mason also has […]
Galston Rural Fire Brigade News
Fire station open for Get Ready Weekend Galston Rural Fire Brigade is participating in ‘Get Ready Weekend’. The station will be open to the general public between 2pm – 3.30pm on Saturday 16th September. Everyone is welcome to pop in for a visit – whether you want information on how to make sure your property […]
Glenorie Rural Fire Brigade News
Get Ready Weekend On Sunday September 17th, Glenorie Station will be having an open day. Come down between 10am and 2pm to see our station, have a look at our vehicles, ask any questions you might have and get advice on how to prepare your property for summer. We hope to have risk maps of […]
Busy July and August for Arcadia Rural Fire Brigade, with the rest of the year shaping up to be no different.
The local community has responded to our recent advertising about volunteering, which has seen the brigade have 20 new recruits. They are busily preparing for their up-coming Basic Firefighter exam so they can join the rest of the crew on the fire ground. Hazard reduction preparations are well underway for the year with the previous […]
Dural and District Historical Society- Berowra Floods, 1942
From R. Fishburn’s Story in Galston News Sept. 1975 It was during World War 2, when an invasion of the Australian mainland by the Japanese seemed imminent, that Berowra Waters figured in an almost disastrous incident. It was March, 1942. The Naval Control Board set up a plan to combat any possible Japanese amphibious attack […]
The Galston Uniting Church – A Little Bit More of Our Story: Part 2
In the last instalment, we learned about the beginnings of the Dural Uniting parish under the Methodist-Wesleyan church banner. This instalment looks at some of the activities that took place as part of the life of the church community. Anniversaries were a particularly special occasion. The 1889 Anniversary at Dural Church was held on a […]
The Dharug and Lower Hawkesbury Historical Society
The Dharug and Lower Hawkesbury Historical Society are pleased to welcome on Saturday, 23rd September, Professor Paul Boon, who now lives in Melbourne but nearly qualifies as an old Hawkesbury boy having spent his childhood and adolescence on the river, and conducted field studies for his BSc(Hons) project on the mangroves at Brooklyn. Paul, a […]
Matt Kean MP – Member for Hornsby, Hornsby students tour NSW Parliament
Local primary students were excited to take a once in a lifetime look at NSW Parliament with The Hon. Matt Kean MP Member for Hornsby this week. The group of students, all leaders at their respective schools, spent the morning in Parliament with Mr Kean. This included a tour of the Legislative Assembly and Legislative […]
Carlson Chorale
Arcadia resident Rosalind Carlson has shown not the slightest signs of slowing down in her 80th year, steering her female choir, the Carlson Chorale, towards first places in both the Sydney and Ryde Eisteddfods recently. At the end of May the Carlson Chorale won Section 104 Small Voice Ensemble (Any Age) at the Sydney Eisteddfod […]
