Melbourne Cup Day
The first thing I will do is thank Tinonee Red Cross for the great day they held on Melbourne Cup Day. Five of our members attended and had a wonderful time as per usual. The welcome was warm, the meal delicious and the company was perhaps the best part of the day. We all came away after the Cup was won still feeling almost overfed. We all hope to go back next year so we can have such a good time again.
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Christmas luncheon
At our club meeting on Monday, November 5 it was decided to hold our Christmas luncheon on Tuesday, December 4 at Mount George Hall. We hope as many of our Red Cross friends as possible can come along but that does not mean it is an exclusive Red Cross function.
Anyone at all is welcome to attend and have lunch, fun and friendship with us. Each guest is asked to bring along some little thing to go into Santa’s bag. Everyone who comes will have a chance to choose a gift from the combined total of gifts during the day.
For more information call Lorraine on 6553 5048.
School news
On Wednesday, November 14 the school and friends thereof are taking an historical walk of Mount George to learn a little of the town’s past. This promises to be interesting and informative as the children learn about the dairy farms, the mills, the old buildings and what they were used for and hear about the railway station, the post office, the bank and the butchers’s shop and bakery which were once here. We even had a welding business once.
On Friday, November 16 the school choir will be visiting Wingham Court nursing home to meet and entertain the residents there. The oldies and the ill will enjoy the visit as much as the children , I’ll bet.
On Monday, November 19 the Intensive Swimming Classes will begin at Wingham pool and continue until Friday, November 23. This is an important part of the school curriculum as it could save someone’s life in times to come.
Add to these events the Italian language classes, the music classes, sport/PE lessons and library lessons and you’d wonder where they find time for the basic subjects. What a busy life children lead at school these days.
Last Friday was the last time there will ever be an assembly of workers on our local paper, the Wingham Chronicle, in the building which has been the heart and soul of the local news scene for many years. Not that the local paper has ceased to exist, just the local office. Anyone with anything that might of interest to the folks of Wingham or its surrounds can still contact our local journalists on the same phone numbers and emails as usual.
Quite a few people who have taken the time to keep us up to date with local events over many years came together for a final cuppa and cake morning tea in the Chronicle office for the last time Friday morning to say “goodbye, farewell and amen” to the old office and remember some of the good (and not so good) times the paper has seen over the years it has been serving our area.
Nullum panicum, however. We who enjoy working on the Chronicle will continue to do so. We’ve lost enough of our local identity already and don’t want to lose the good old Chronicle as well.