Sunday, January 26 brings us Australia Day and hopefully many will get themselves down to the park to welcome Ambassador Robina Beard OAM, better known to most as 'Madge the Manicurist'.
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Have breakfast then sit back and enjoy acknowledging all the people in the Boorowa community who have done wonderful things. Breakfast from 8am with the formal ceremony at 9.30am.
If you fancy some sport, bowls at the Ex-Services Club starts at 1pm and golf at the Recreation Club tees off at 5pm.
Also at the Rec Club, kiddies muddy puddles is at 2pm with the ever popular Balladeers at 4pm. Pool will be open and free.
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Mentioning Australia Day, and our national anthem, all those critics of this day will pop up out of the woodwork, putting in their two bobs worth and demanding change.
I love Australia Day and our national anthem.
What are the issues?
Australia Day should be celebrated/acknowledged on a day of significance. January 26, 1788 was a day that definitely changed Australia forever.
It was hardly an invasion as some would have us believe.
Many of Indigenous background could air grievances, even European persons have questionable convict backgrounds.
January 26 is a significant date of change and until a better date comes around, let us as one celebrate the fact we live in a great country.
As for the national anthem, I've read it through and through and it paints a glowing image of Australia with all but possibly one line, "For we are young and free".
We all know Australia has a history going back thousands of years, so to our Indigenous friends, to all, ''young' is not appropriate.
Find a word to change from 'young', or even change the line.
Put these thoughts through your mind and ask yourself, "Do we really need to change our Anthem?"
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The Australia Day Committee ran a sausage sizzle last Saturday aimed at promoting the day and also to help raise a few dollars helping us put the day on.
People supported the day well.
A very much appreciated fact.
Congratulations to Sue Braid the lucky winner of the raffle.
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Mystified by the working of a computer or any other of these modern devices, a solution is at hand.
Free computer sessions for seniors.
These started last week and I've heard nothing but glowing reports of how good they are.
Dean Franklin is running these sessions run each Thursday, 5pm - 6.30pm in the Central School Library.
What Dean doesn't know about computers isn't worth knowing.
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Some wives do 'av 'em, such as the chap's wife who had been hinting she wanted something black and lacy for her birthday, so he bought her a pair of football boots.
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Then there's the wife who asked her husband if she could have a little peace and quiet while she cooked dinner, so he took the batteries out of the smoke alarm.
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The bushfires have been horrific.
But time will come when people will sit down and work out what went wrong and what can be done to avoid such occurrences in the future.
Talkback radio can often be inane, but the 'shock jock' and a caller agreed recently, the makeup of the persons involved must be all encompassing politically, scientifically, expert-wise, but all determined to come out with a sound solution.
