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SPOTLIGHT ON FEMALES IN FOOTBALL WITH LANE COVE FC
The winter season is off to a spectacular start with a new Lane Cove Football Club Board, ready to focus this year on key initiatives to invigorate LCFC’s community spirit. You can expect some great events this season as a result of LCFC partnerships with new and returning local sponsors, and LCFC’s work alongside Northern Suburbs Football Association. In our local area and beyond, all eyes are on the Matildas as they begin their World Cup race to gold. One key focus this year for LCFC is to encourage more girls and women into football and support them when they join. Football NSW has aligned this year’s Female Football Week with the launch of the Women’s World Cup and LCFC is following suit by getting behind Female Football Week at a club level. Female Football Week will be celebrated from May 25 to June 2, and Lane Cove Football Club will host a LCFC Female Club Celebration on the Sunday Game Day at Blackman on June 2. With help from our 2019 sponsors, our girls and women will showcase their skills in a Blackman Park match day for most teams, plus BBQ and other surprises from our friends at NSFA – do we hear cross-bar challenge? Internally, the Club will organise a week of fun for our teams with the return of the fluoro-themed night, Girls and Women’s teams mentor session and a Women’s Skills Workshop in partnership with NSFA. The Board has also been keeping busy with our first “Bibs, Drinks & BBQ – Coaches Evening” and LCFC Team Managers Night in March to get our coaches and managers ready for the season kick-off. Also on the calendar is our annual Trivia Night, LCFC Club Day and Seniors Presentation Evening. Plenty to come for another great year of football!
Reps from LCFC’s two women's all-age teams, Divisions 2 & 4
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Getting Involved Expo 2019
What’s happening in Lane Cove
This Expo will showcase the exciting range of opportunities and activities available to people of all abilities and ages offered through your local community groups.
WHEN: Wednesday 15 May Drop in between 2:00pm – 7:00pm
Terrace Function Room, Lane Cove Community Hub, 1 Pottery Lane, Lane Cove No booking required
A BOOK LOVER’S REVIEW
The Girl on the Page
BY JOHN PURCELL
The world of publishing and its ubiquitous tension between commercial viability and literary merit is explored by John Purcell in his intriguing novel, The Girl on the Page. The central character, Amy Winston, is talented, beautiful, independently wealthy and emotionally damaged. Once an aspiring writer herself, and still working in publishing, Amy’s real talent is for nurturing mediocre writers to help them produce bestsellers. Review by Jacqui Serafim.
Amy is challenged, however, when her boss demands she work with the famous literary author, Helen Owen. Helen and Malcolm Owen have been married for fifty years. They are bastions of great literary writing, and uncompromising in their pursuit of perfection in an increasingly commercial world. Helen is now in her eighties and is tired of watching younger, less talented writers make fortunes while she still scrapes by after a lifetime of truly great writing, She has taken a sevenfigure advance from Amy’s publishing company for a promised bestseller but has not delivered the manuscript. Amy’s role is to procure the manuscript from Helen and ensure the company can recoup its investment by delivering a bestseller. But Helen has come to regret her rash commitment to delivering a novel so far beneath her usual literary standard and one which will result in the loss of her husband’s respect. As Helen battles with the risks of losing her house or losing her husband, Malcolm mourns the loss of the wife he knew who would never compromise her writing for mere money. Amy finds herself drawn into their confusion and pain and comes to love and respect these enormously talented octogenarians … and conflicted as to how to help them. The story unfolds to reveal Amy’s emotional damage, evident in her wanton promiscuity and in the intrigue she brings to her business and personal relationships. We are also exposed to the heartbreaking consequences for the Owens arising from their lifelong single-minded devotion to their writing and their absorption in each other. The heart of the novel, however, is Amy’s developing relationship with Helen and Malcolm. As Amy comes under their influence, she begins to question her role in the publishing world and to re-examine her relationships. The Girl on the Page is a fascinating novel with an engaging plot in which the publishing world and its financial deals and awards systems is unmasked but which also explores the nature of literature, how we define it and how we recognise it. The pages are full of literary references as the various characters wax lyrical about their influences. Don’t miss the recommended reading lists at the end! Purcell has delivered a novel both entertaining and thought-provoking. Amy’s assessment of Helen’s novel applies equally to The Girl on the Page: “… that’s where your new novel sits, on the literary edge of commercial fiction." It has bestseller written all over it, but it will also make people think."
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Flood disaster warning
Unless you live in the bush or near flood-prone waterways, you probably think your house is relatively safe from a disaster of the watery kind … by Liz Foster
I mean, how likely is any of that stuff they show on insurance commercials? Like the one where the little girl is dancing indoors with an umbrella while water prettily showers over her? Or so I thought until last week, when I turned on the kitchen tap and a sound akin to Niagara Falls exploded from the sink. In the two minutes it took to turn off mains water and grab the nearest neighbour, the kitchen floor was under about an inch of water. Too much to mop. The plumber duly came and found a huge tear in the hot water hose. “Lucky you were home,” he said. “It only blew when I turned on the tap,” I said. He shrugged. The hose was hanging by a shred, could have gone at any time. Apparently, his girlfriend’s parents had the same problem. Only theirs was in their upstairs ensuite. And they weren’t home. "Like a masochist, I need to know the worst." Turns out water damage is a big deal. Their whole house was practically written off, the entire upstairs saturated and ruined, water soaking right through the ceiling which then collapsed under the weight. They had to move out for six months. I feel faint at this news and start catastrophising. Like a masochist, I need to know the worst. I do a sweep of my house. Having not scheduled a flood in my calendar, I’ve neglected to clear the floors. The living area’s clearish but closer inspection of the dining room floor reveals my daughter’s HSC textiles bag, a bodice that’s already taken hours and hours of painstaking stitching, ruching, smocking and other techniques mystifying to the non-sewer (me). Plus all the various threads, bobbins and whatnots purchased specially and at vast expense. My skin is clammy, and I need to sit down. The same daughter isn’t known for her tidiness, so pretty much every item of clothing she owns is strewn around her bedroom floor. My laptop, my source of work and income, is on the low coffee table. Worse than all that, what would our dog have done? Jumped onto the forbidden couch, or raced upstairs where he’s also not allowed? Then again, he loves water so maybe he would have just dog paddled serenely around until help came. I’m picturing getting home to release a tsunami of water, the dog cresting the wave and surfing gaily down the front path. Happily, none of that happened. The tap was replaced for the princely sum of about $100 all up and I can breathe easy again. I might make sure the dog stays outside when we’re not home, though, just to be on the safe side.
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