St. Luke’s Anglican Church Tinonee was chosen for the Christening Service of Aaron and Taryn Balaam’s beautiful four-month-old daughter Sienna Marie on Sunday, August 19.

Family members and friends filled the church for the happy occasion conducted by Rev Brian Ford. Sienna’s godparents were Candice Balaam, Lara Dennes, Luke Miller and Jack Harris. Proud grandparents Tracey and Jeff Dennes of Cundletown, together with Craig and Colleen Balaam of Chatham, great grandparents Pat and Val Walshe of Taree, and Jan and Robert Balaam were there, but unfortunately great grandparents Tony and Val Schubert and Isobel Harrison were unable to attend.

Reverend Brian presented Sienna with a hand-knitted teddy bear on behalf of the church as he welcomed her into God’s family. Family and friends later celebrated at Tinonee Memorial Hall.

SCHOOL NEWS

The school’s new principal Karen Austin is settling in well in her new role and met members of the P&C Committee at the monthly meeting on August 21. The 2018 school photos will be taken on Thursday, August 23.

TINONEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

A reminder the monthly meeting of the society is tomorrow, August 23, at 7pm. Final arrangements for this Saturday’s Garage Sale, on from 8am until 1pm, will be discussed.

VETERANS GATHER

National Vietnam Veterans’ Day saw a pleasing number of ex-servicemen gather at the Wingham Town Hall for a service on Saturday morning before moving to the Wingham Services Club for morning tea. 

SINCERE CONDOLENCES

Sympathy and sincere condolences are extended to Bevan and Barbara Waters of Tinonee, on the passing of Bevan’s brother Tony Waters aged 76, late of Wingham. Tony’s funeral was on Monday, August 20, at the Manning Great Lakes Memorial Gardens Crematorium.

FUNERAL OF DON MACINNES

St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church Taree, overflowed with mourners for the funeral of well known Taree man Donald ‘Don’ William Macinnes, OAM, on Thursday August 16. Don, aged 85, was a member of many organisations and I got to know him through he and his wife Lyn’s work with the Australian Red Cross. Tributes were paid to Don by present and past ministers of St. Paul’s and eulogies given by his three adult children Andrew, Lyanne and Megan, and grandchildren Steph and Nick. An RSL Service was led by Darcy Elbourne of Taree RSL, who paid tribute to Don’s National Service in the 1950s. Rest in Peace Don.