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WEDNESDAY June 26, 2013
CWA FACTS Day
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Mona honoured for teddies There are unsung heroes scattered throughout the Monaro and Mona Rowe is one of them. Mona Rowe is a tiny 86-year-old woman but it’s obvious she has a very big heart. One of Jerangle’s most well known residents, Mrs Rowe was the last owner and operator of the Jerangle Post Office, which closed in 1984. But perhaps her greatest achievement is one that has gone unacknowledged for six years. Mrs Rowe recently received a certificate from the Sydney Adventist Hospital for her support of the Operation Open Heart program. Each year around
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this time Mrs Rowe sits and knits woollen teddy bears for the children overseas who will be receiving open heart surgery as part of the Sydney Adventist Hospitals program. Over the six years Mrs Rowe has been contributing to the program she has knitted well over 200 bears. Not only this but she continued supplying the program with bears even while she suffered through throat cancer treatment a few years ago. Operation Open Heart was established in 1986 by a small group of hospital medical and nursing staff who travelled to Tonga, indignant that life saving cardiac procedures, easily accessible in Australia, were not available in the South Pacific. Continued on Page 2...
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