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Your Local Seniors’ Newspaper - Written for Seniors by Seniors
Vol 3 - Issue No 5
JUNE 2015
1300 880 265
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Jumpers and hot jazz heat up Warwick’s winter arts festival By JIM BOWDEN
Award-winning tree jumper artist Margaret Armstrong of Warwick who won the open artistic division in 2014 with this entry
‘Tuning up’ her knitting needles . . . Edna Westman in her home at Allora prepares Merino wool fabrics for the Warwick Jumpers and Jazz Festival
Award-winning Warwick textile artist Sue Marshman was instrumental in the development of the yarn-bombing project at the Jumpers and Jazz Festival
“NOW, Jim, you know it’s not polite to ask a woman her age.” That was the goodhumoured response from Edna Westman of Allora, who will be spinning wool – and yarns – at what many describe as Queensland’s quirkiest event .. the Jumpers and Jazz Festival in Warwick from July 16 to 26. We pressed on: “It’s the Seniors Newspaper, and we’re looking for people who have stories about the festival and what they do there.” “Seniors? Do I qualify? I’m still under 90,” Edna shot back. In fact, this sprightly daughter of the soil, former grazier’s wife, bush post office manager and World War 2 nurse turns the big Nine-0 in November. “Don’t let that worry you,” she said. “I’ll be knitting in the ‘Yangan Shop’ in Warwick’s main street during the festival, driving there each day in my car. I might have to use a walker now, but it’s a different story when I get behind the wheel.” Edna is one of the multi-generation artists and performers who make the festival special, some aged as young as eight, others in their mid-90s.
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