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Port Macquarie Independent
Thursday 21st August, 2014
WHAT’S ON NATIONAL PARKS THE National Parks Association’s next walk is on Saturday, August 23 in the Lansdowne State Forest - a pleasant walk both on and off track, grade 3-4, 12–14km. Ph Phil 6552 1736.
OVERCOMING FEAR FREE workshop on overcoming fear on Wednesday, August 27, 6pm-8pm, Governors Retirement Resort, Port Macquarie. To register ph/msg Rob Cummins on 0419 436 859 or email robcummins1@live.com.au
TABLE TENNIS PORT Table Tennis would love to hear from prospective new players. Non-competitive games are played by a mixed group at Palm Court Motor Inn, William St, on Wednesdays, 9am-noon. No joining fee, refreshments provided. Ph Don 6581 5388.
be displayed (sealed) until 2pm when there will be a dedication ceremony and letters can be collected or they will be posted. This is an official awareness function of Beyond Blue. Ph Colin 0412 607 701.
VIEW CLUB PORT Macquarie Evening VIEW Club will meet on Wednesday, September 3, at Westport Club, 6.30pm for 7pm. Cost $24. Guest speaker: Debbie Jackson, principal of Distance Education Facility. Ph Elizabeth 6583 9628.
SOLACE SOLACE is a support group for people who are grieving the death of their life partner. Solace Port Macquarie meets at 1.30pm on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month in the Mac Adams Music Centre in Gordon St. The next meeting will be August 26. Ph Russell Hill 0419 427 192.
FAMILY HISTORY FOR the month of August, Port Macquarie & Districts Family History Society Inc has volunteers on duty in the research room of Port Macquarie Library to assist people with tracing their family tree. Times: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9.30am-3pm, Saturdays 9.30am-11.30am.
RU OK DAY PORT Macquarie Lions Club will hold an RU OK Day on Sunday, August 31, 10am-2pm at Lions Park overlooking Town Beach. Members of the public are invited to write a note or letter of encouragement and support to someone they care about. This will
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Lean, mean – and it could be yours! LEAN, mean and bright green - when it comes to cars Patrick Griffiths’ 1972 LJ Torana certainly is a head-turner. And the car in question has been turning even more heads than normal the h industrial industriaal area ooff Port Po ort MacquarMacquarr in the it onn the thee market marke ket ie since Patrick putt it th front fron fr ontt of Country Country and parked it out the c r yard ca ya d in in Uralla Wholesale Groupp car Road. Patrick, who is a mechanic mechanic and se thher ere, e, decided decided that afservice advisor there, was time to sell sel e l his ter seven yearss it was rac acin ing machine, hard as he much loved racing it too come com ome to termss with with the is findingg it decision. “Every morning I llook ookk at it an oo nd go and move ‘I’m an idiot’’, but it is time to move next xt project,” he said. on to thee ne He and his father rebuilt the Torana from a shell, including lovingly
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