Flood Affected Community’s Support and Members Recognised for 2019/20 Bushfires
During March and April the brigade has attended many incident calls along with the much-needed support of the residents along the Hawkesbury river with the flood relief and providing the much-needed support to get them back to some sort of normality so they can rebuild. The brigade members were recognised along with many of our […]
A Rewarding Career Close to Home!
Looking for a new rewarding career maybe in sales? Working locally can provide the ideal mix of stimulation and convenience. Hills-based company Australian Pump Industries are looking for new recruits as demand for quality Australian designed products increases. “At Aussie Pumps, we’re seeing a surge in demand for our products both in Australia and overseas”, […]
Galston Rural Fire Brigade – Feed a Firefighter With Your Empty Bottles and Cans
Did you know it takes 360 empty bottles and cans to feed a crew of hungry firefighters when they are operational out on a fireground, search and rescue or flood recovery operation? Well, not exactly. As with all local Rural Fire Brigades, we are made up entirely of volunteers with essential equipment such as fire […]
Dural Bowls Has Two New Minor Singles Champions!
The 2022 minor singles Champions final was played between Reg Munusamy and Robert Whiddon. The game was very close for the first 9 ends with the score being 6 to 4 in favour of Reg. Reg then accelerated his scoring and quickly jumped out to a 22 to 7 lead. Reg was only needing 3 […]
Galston Concerts: Free ‘World Tours
The Galston Concerts are offering free ‘world tours’ Sunday 29 May, starting 2pm in Galston Uniting Church. Three continents in an hour, starting with music by Mozart and Schubert in Vienna, a ‘shore excursion’ to Warsaw for some Polish folk dances, a dash to New York for songs by Broadway favourites Stephen Sondheim and George […]
Friends of Fagan Park
By Vern Sotter We don’t have much to report this edition of Fagan Park mainly due to the atrocious wet weather. Two of our usual Tuesday workdays were rained out and we had much-reduced member numbers on other days. As we previously advised Bruce Fagan‘s 1932 Leyland Truck developed a fuel supply problem, which caused […]
CWA News
These days the CWA are talking about joint problems of a different sort – a push for cannabis change in Australia. Nearly 20 years in the making, the first inklings of the motion to advocate for the placement of prescribed cannabis medication on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme was originally raised back in the early 2000s. […]
STEM Champion Again!
By Craig Hingston For the second year in a row Pacific Hills Christian School at Dural has been announced as STEM Champion School at a nationwide Science- Technology- Engineering- Mathematics competition. The Science and Engineering Challenge (SEC) is presented each year by the University of Newcastle at Olympic Park and it attracts entries from across […]
Arcadian Quilting
He arrived in a small soft bag and spent some time on my latest small quilt, (a fore-runner to a new quilting idea)? He was full of hope, I could tell from his bright shining black eyes and his approach was also very positive. The approach from ‘the grandchild’ was equally positive, as an explanation […]
Caring for Yourself and Others
As priorities shift, many of us will move to the role of ‘carer’. When caring for a loved one, we often have much less free time to devote to ourselves, which makes it important to prioritise caring for yourself. Signs of burnout as a carer Fatigue Sleeping too much or too little Changes in eating […]