Archive | May, 2009
Table Tennis Club
The table tennis club was established 4 years ago by René Buhler and Ferenc Szabados and plays in St Hilda’s Church hall in Katoomba. Competition nights are on Wednesdays and training is on Thursday nights. There are usually 4 tables being used on competition nights with about 20 players. Juniors from about 10 year sold [...]
Continue reading...Local personality
3. May 2009
Leura resident John Low is a poet and historian who has written and published several books on local history, including the popular Blue Mountains Pictorial Memories. He recently wrote the introduction for ‘Blue Mountain Dreaming’ and co edited the new ‘Sipping The Nectar – the bird notes of Graham Alcorn’ John was a teacher and a [...]
Continue reading...Local Cartoonist
3. May 2009
Sarah Parsons is a local freelance cartoonist whose work has appeared in exhibitions, on TV, in articles, and most notably, on kitchen fridges across our fair nation. She won the inaugural New Matilda Political Cartooning Competition 2008, with the winning cartoon appearing here in the The Echo. Locally, her cartoons have appeared in The Lindsays [...]
Continue reading...Heritage Dancers
3. May 2009
The Blue Mountains Heritage Dancers would like to invite you to dance. In colonial times, dancing was a large part of socializing, and a special occasion was often celebrated with a ball. People danced the reels and jigs of home, and later combined them with ‘newer’ 19th century European dance imports like quadrilles, waltzes, polkas and [...]
Continue reading...Speechcraft course
3. May 2009
Have you ever envied the ease and confidence some people show when they speak in front of a crowd? Well, we in Toastmasters have, and we have learned that these people use some simple techniques. We are inviting you to a Speechcraft Course, Saturday 30 May and Saturday 13th June, at the Rest Easy Motel, Wentworth [...]
Continue reading...AIR – Association of Independent Retirees
3. May 2009
AIR is non-political, non-profit making and is open to part pensioners and independent new members. It is nation wide and concentrates on health, financial and social issues. AIR realises that collective force can change things so come along to the meetings on the 4th Friday of the month at 10.15 at the Lawson Bowling Club. Lunch [...]
Continue reading...Winning Waste
2. May 2009
The judges at the recent ‘Waste to Art’ Competition certainly got it right when they awarded a prize to Marty Kemister for his amazing billycart! According to Marty, it was made out a cracked otto bin and a couple of grass catchers, but ‘OTTO1’ looks like a real life, half-size formula one racing car complete with [...]
Continue reading...Katoomba Anzac Day
2. May 2009
About 400 people braved the cold and the wind to attend the ANZAC Day dawn service at Katoomba. The emotional service commemorating the 94th Anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli was held at the Community War Memorial at the Katoomba RSL Club in Lurline Street. The service was followed by the traditional ‘gunfire breakfast’ inside the [...]
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3. May 2009
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