The Weekly Times Online

Wednesday 11th July 2012

D-DAY FOR CIVIC
CENTRE PLAN

D-Day is rapidly approaching for Ryde City Council and its highly controversial Ryde Civic Centre Precinct Redevelopment project.

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Maroon flag flies on Sydney Harbour Bridge

Barry Keeps His Promise

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Barry O'Farrell: Support your MPs

NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell must support his local MPs in honoring the Liberal Party’s pre-election promise to extend the Ryde Hunters Hill Hockey Club’s lease on the Keith Thompson Hockey Centre at Macquarie Park.

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Vic Tagg seeks re-election to
‘Clean up the Mess’ at Ryde

East Ward Councillor and former mayor Vic Tagg this week announces he will stand again for Ryde City Council at the September 8 Local Government elections “to help clean up the mess”.

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ALP pledge to support local Korean families

Three of the leading Labor Party candidates for this September’s Ryde City Council are seeking the views of the local Korean-speaking community.

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Council ‘slow to remove playground porn graffiti’

Pornographic graffiti has been removed from the children’s playground in Anderson Park, Meadowbank thanks to outraged parents.

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MCC spells Macquarie
Community CHAOS!

The once highly respected and successful Macquarie Community College is in a state of turmoil under the current management – team which is threatening its future existence critics say.

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Proof rubbish attracts ...

A stuffed toy with a bad attitude to waste has proved what residents in Meadowbank have claimed for years - dumped rubbish quickly attracts more rubbish.

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Keep diabetes at bay – with apples

It’s said an apple a day keeps the doctor away but what is less known is apples’ role in promoting a healthy lifestyle for people who have diabetes.

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Ryde Rivers Festival
Biggest and Best!

Ryde Rivers Festival 2012 will be the biggest and best yet with a record entry for the Dragon Boat races on Sunday September 9 from 9am to 3pm on the banks of the Parramatta River at Kissing Point and Bennelong Parks Putney.

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YOUR CHAMBER MEETS

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Pipe band leads the way
in Moocooboola parade

One of Australia’s best Scots pipe and drum bands will lead this year’s Moocooboola Parade on Sunday August 5.

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National honours for Hunters Hill rugby colt Andy Kellaway

GLADESVILLE teenager Andrew Kellaway has gained selection in the 2012 Australian Schoolboys rugby union team.

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A young voice for parliament

The parliamentary career of Lane Cove political aspirant Sophie Lara-Watson is being closely monitored by her local MP Anthony Roberts.

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Hunters Hill Guest Column

Why I stand by my asylum issue views

To The POINT
With Joe Hockey

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Hunters Hill Happenings

How our school children view police

With Mayor Sue Hoopmann

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Happy 102 Harold

HAROLD WILSON of North Ryde turns 102 next Tuesday same day as North Ryde RSL Community Club president Barry Herbert

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Back to Boronia Park Day

HUNTERS Hill Rugby Club - celebrating 120 years of rugby since 1892 - will hold a Back to Boronia Park Oval Day on Saturday July 21.

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Benefit Night for rugby stalwart

A BENEFIT Night has been organised for Ryde rugby icon Chris Harvey - one of the true gentlemen of the code - on Saturday July 28 in the Pittwater Room at North Ryde RSL Community Club.

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Lane Cove Rugby memorabilia

Calling all past and present members of Lane Cove Rugby Club.

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Were you a Scout or Guide?

As Baden-Powell in his time found that there was a need for the young generation to be spiritually healthy in a noxious world and become good citizens - so today there is that same need for both young and ‘old’.

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Call on our police to go west

State Opposition Leader John Robertson has called for police from low-crime areas in Sydney’s lower North Shore to be temporarily posted to the western suburbs after Sydney’s 70th shooting incident on Saturday.

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Police Rounds

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