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Helping to find a new normal after cancer
THOSE affected by cancer can plan for life after treatment at a free online cancer wellness program next month. Information for people who have been affected by cancer, as well as their loved ones, will be available at three sessions on Monday, October 18, November 15 and December 13, delivered online by MannaCare in Doncaster. The Cancer Council Victoria program is run by local health professionals to help survivors in making the change to life after treatment and finding a ‘new normal’. Topics covered will include physical activity and nutrition while managing cancer, adjusting to physical and emotional changes after cancer treatment, and returning to work and managing the financial impacts of cancer. Nearly 36,000 Victorians were diagnosed with cancer in 2019. To register, or to find out more, phone Germaine Tan on 9856 1210 or email rehab@ mannacare.org.au
A local railway historian is delving into the history of the former Sale Railway Refreshment Rooms. Pictured are Sale Railway Refreshment Room staff (names unknown) in 1925, with managers Mr and Mrs Mason.
Railway refreshment rooms history THE history of the former Sale Railway Refreshment Rooms, which were in the nowdemolished Sale Railway Station, is being researched by Sale Historical Society member and railway historian Daryl Wilson. The former railway station was located where the Gippsland Centre shopping complex now stands, and closed in 1983 when the current railway station opened at the western end of the town. The only reminder of the former railway station is the old railway signal box in Reeve St, which dates back to 1888 and has a small railway museum operated by Sale Historical Society members. The railway line from Sale to Oakleigh opened in 1878, and later the same year tenders were invited from interested parties to operate the railway
refreshment rooms for passengers on long train journeys. A tender from local identity Phillip Finegan was accepted and the Sale Refreshment Rooms opened in January 1879 selling food, drinks and alcohol to train passengers. Later lessees of the railway refreshment rooms include James Colegate, James and Ellen Dalloway, George and Mary Rust, Miss Lydia Newsom, Llewellyn Dyer, Mr and Mrs M Wraith, Abraham and Marie Levy, Robert Allen and John Rowan who at one time operated all three Gippsland line refreshment rooms — Warragul, Traralgon and Sale — at the same time. Sale Railway Refreshment Rooms continued to be operated by private licensees competing by
tender until 1920, when the Victorian Railways set up the Refreshment Services Branch, which then employed its own staff to operate the refreshment rooms. Besides the refreshment rooms at stations, the Refreshment Services Branch also staffed dining carriages on country and interstate trains, shops on station platforms and the Mount Buffalo Chalet. Mr Wilson would like to hear from senior members of the community who can remember the Sale Railway Refreshment Rooms, or who had family members who worked at the refreshment rooms in Sale. For more information, phone him on 0427 443 351.
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Times-Spectator, Tuesday, 28 September, 2021 – Page 9
