A SPLASH OF COLOUR AT THE NETBALL COURTS!
Hills District Netball Association recently held its ‘Crazy Hair and Sock’ weekend. This is an annual fundraiser for The Kids Cancer Project. All member clubs are encouraged to get their players to wear colourful socks and create whatever hairstyles their imaginations can conjure up. To encourage participation, Galston Netball Club awarded prizes to their best […]
Vale Raymond (Ray) Charles Whiteman
On Friday 9th August three hundred plus past and present Glenorie residents gathered at the Glenorie Mission Church to remember and honour Ray Whiteman’s life and service to the Glenorie community. Ray was just ten years old when his family moved to Glenorie from Camden. He completed his primary schooling at Glenorie Public school. The […]
GALSTON ROTARY HELPS SECURE LONG TERM – FUNDING FOR YOUTH IN CRISIS
At a recent meeting of Galston Rotary, an officer from Youth Insearch, Jeremy Goff, expressed gratitude to Rotary for arranging a meeting between its CEO Heath Ducker and our local Federal Member Julian Leeser. Last year, Galston Rotary brought Julian and Heath together as guest speakers on the vital topic of youths in crisis. The […]
DAMIAN SCOTT THURGOOD (AUGUST 26, 1974 – MAY 05, 2019)
The tragic death of Damian Thurgood aged just 44yrs old, on the 4th May has left his family and friends devastated and heartbroken. HE WAS THE ELDEST CHILD of Gordon and Annette Thurgood, and big brother to Natalie and Philip. The family came to live in Arcadia in 1980. Damian was born at Auburn Hospital, […]
Nature’s Gentleman
It is with immense sadness that we share news of the passing of the much-loved President/Treasurer of Dural’s Kangaroo Protection Co-operative (KPC), FRANK HICKEY. After nearly 40 years as teachers, Frank and his Welsh-born wife Heather retired at the end of 2002, settling first on a few acres in Kenthurst and later moving to Canoelands, […]
News from the Galston Community Health Centre and KNC – Galston
KNC – Galston work from the Community Health Centre and are part of KNC based in St Ives. We have a wonderful team of volunteer drivers who help our aged community get to their hospital and medical appointments, drive them to the shops and help them with transport to other essential appointments. To access services […]
Invite You To “Aboriginal Astronomy”
AN AFTERNOON WITH SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER ROBERT FULLER Please join us at the Chapel on Saturday September 28th where we are pleased to welcome Robert Fuller who is an anthropologist/archaeologist. He did a research Masters degree at Macquarie University in indigenous astronomy, and published an article on the cultural astronomy of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi […]
WAL BUCKINGHAM PARK
The park next to Glenorie Memorial Hall is called Wal Buckingham Park. With the passing of Ray Whiteman the Hall Committee thought, given the tireless work he did for the community, it would be fitting to name something in honour of his services. So we first looked at the park. Few of us knew who […]
RIVERS, RIDGES AND ROLLER COASTERS
Start at St. Albans village and cross over the lovely truss bridge, where you’ll turn right onto dirt road. At about 2km ride round a hairpin bend, and it is here that you will see the sign and turn left onto Jack’s Track. Right from the start you have the first of many steep, technical […]
Heartbeats
Letting Loose A few Fridays ago, my sister, her friend and I all attended a Zumba class at the Galston Community Centre hosted by the wonderful Nina. She made us all laugh and best of all made the class fun. Not to mention the welcoming feeling made by all the other ladies who came! They […]
