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In this edition

Relax and enjoy our positive profiles, local news, community notes, health, wealth and travel information and stories. We have put together a wide range of stories from national art hero Ken Done to people binding together a healthy, happy community.

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Done story heralds wave of nostalgia THIS month’s cover story on Australian artist Ken Done heralds a wave of nostalgia.

In an instant the thought of those brilliant, vivid hues takes me back to the 1980s.

For many it was a time of renovating old beach houses and aging inner-city homes, carefully scrapping back the fading tones of orange and mission brown and thoughtfully re-instituting the federation colours, maroons, creams and deep greens.

Then like a burst of

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cool, drenching rain on a hot Aussie afternoon, Ken Done saturated us with his astounding abstract pictures and the colours of the Australian sky, the ocean and sunlight.

It was refreshing, fun and new, and we took it into our homes and heart (see story page 4).

This month editor Gail Forrer and digital producer Taya Sweeney attend the The International Federation of Ageing 13th Annual Conference, sponsored by WHO – World Health Organisation and COTA – Council of the Ageing.

You can check out profiles, videos and stories at www.seniorsnews.com.au and two stories have been published on our Talk’n’Thoughts pages.

We’ve gone back to the earth for our Live and Let’s Save feature and

present you with practical ways to get worms to eat your scraps and fertilise your garden.

But as always our upfront stories feature our friends and neighbours, what is generally known as the locals. Our reporter Belinda Scott brings to the pages the inspiring stories of stand-up-paddlers and and a vintage stonemason.

You can brush up on the latest books and authors on our review page and contributed community notes.

Enjoy, Gail.

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Stop, look, listen to signs of your body INSPIRING AND RETIRING EVA BENNETT NO, I’m not talking about stopping at the road traffic lights. But then, I could quite easily make an analogy to our own internal traffic lights.

The orange light comes on when we are rushing around too much and getting stressed. It’s warning us that it’s time to slow down in our lives. But do we always listen?

If we ignore orange light and don’t see the stop light coming, it’s a bit like the traffic cop suddenly coming up behind and pulling you over.

The internal stop sign can be something like a bad bout of the flu, a sprained ankle, back injury, etc, something that leaves us with no choice, but to stop and rest.

At first this can be stressful, feeling guilty about not carrying out your normal routine however, when you accept the situation and stop fighting it, this can end up being quite a blessing in disguise.

When we tune into our own traffic lights and listen to signals to slow down, we can get into the habit of slowing down each day, rather than crashing because we didn’t listen to our body.

Have a break from the computer and any activities that can cause a build up of stress.

Get outside every so often – sit in the sun, go for a walk – switch off the busy mind and instead, focus on breathing in the fresh air, looking at the clouds, trees, water, whatever – just relaxing and letting go of thinking about problems.

Curling up and reading a book is another way to let go and one that worked for me when I was recovering from the flu.

Sometimes we need to put the brakes on, slow down and recharge the batteries. Otherwise we can miss those magic moments in life that happen spontaneously and bring us a feeling of happiness that money can’t buy. I’d like to share a magic moment experienced one day: We saw six rainbows – amazing.

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Happy punters at last year’s Coffs Harbour Gold Cup.

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Put colour into your race day BLACK is out the back this year, with plenty of colours in the fashion mix for winter and early spring. Glenda Campione, who has been immersed in fabrics and fashions since she was a toddler, says women over 50 should not be afraid of colour and should continue to experiment.

Glenda, who loves black, ” said she found it was better moved away from her face as the years went by.

“As we age we lose colour in our hair and face, and lots of women say they have to change the colours they wear – a lot of women look better in a softer colour.”

The owner of Coffs Harbour’s Sensara boutique said this meant women should not set

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and forget their fashion colour choices, but should keep on playing dress ups – trying on new colours and styles.

Shades of grey can be surprisingly flattering for those with some strands of silver in their hair,

says Glenda.

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Interested people need to register on the day before 12.30pm, when judging will begin.

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WATER WOMAN: Judy Cotterell and her dog Bear take to the water together on a stand-up paddleboard, even though Bear doesn't like getting his coat wet.

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Retiring standing up

GEOFF Vigors is the brickie who knocked off work to carry boards.

Geoff and his wife Cheryl introduced stand-up paddleboard hire to Coffs Coast residents and visitors more than four years ago when they started their business Coffs Jetty SUP. There were several catalysts for the venture – Geoff’s increasingly severe dermatitis after 45 years of work as a bricklayer, his allergy to treated pine, now widely used in building, and his increasing frustration with his renovation and “spec’’ building business.

Coffs Jetty SUP was sparked by a visit to the Gold Coast when a paddle on the boards in Currumbin Creek left

CHANGING TIDE: Geoff and Cheryl Vigors launched Coffs Jetty SUP as a retirement project.

The Women on Water group meets for a paddle.

Geoff thinking “that’s not a bad job for retirement”.

The deal was clinched when his son Kade told Geoff: “Get rid of the building side – you’re getting crankier every minute.”

Reserve, which offers wave-free water.

Today, Geoff and Cheryl’s SUPs are a fixture on the sporting calendar of a roll call of local schools, community groups and individuals

While some locals were already buying and paddling their own SUPs on the mid-north coast’s abundant waterways, no one was hiring out the paddleboards and teaching newbies how to

use them.

Coffs Harbour City Council proved amenable to the couple’s proposal and they were able to set up on Jetty Beach and later expand to a second site at Boambee Creek

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Surprisingly, some of their most enthusiastic learners are people who have seen a lot of birthdays. “The good thing about it is that any age can do it,” Geoff said.

An 80-year-old grandfather who went paddling with his 14-year-old grandson told Geoff: “You’ve made my year – I never thought I’d be able to do a sport with my grandson.”

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IN the 1980s Ken Done came to town and everyone invited him home. He stepped inside with abstract images, a rich, vibrant palette and presented his celebration of colour on mugs, doonas, curtains and cushions. We wore his signature dresses, t-shirts and swimmers. We drank with Ken Done cups, we wore Ken Done clothes and we slept with Ken Done quilts Here was a man who sensed the Australia that we felt – the heat of the yellow sun, the rich blue wash of the Pacific ocean.

He caught the vibration of native animals and reflected back to us the perfumed colour of our favourite flora. His vivid images bore no throwbacks ` to the ole country nor references to foreign landscapes.’ He was talking to all of us who loved and lived on the Australian coastline.

Forty years after connecting beach loving Australians with their sun soaked coastline, artist Ken Done is taking us to the polar opposite – Antarctica.

Inspired by a 2015 trip to the ice-riven landscape, the 75-year-old has recently completed a series of thirty paintings “Paintings from Antarctica. From the man who so skilfully interpreted the intensity of the Australian sun, the show presents his unique expression of a dramatically different continent.

Yet, home is where his heart remains. At 76 years old, Ken Done’s inner artist is still fed by the surrounding beauty of his Chinaman’s Bay property along with the bigger picture of Sydney and regular world travels.

His long term home and 35-year marriage to Judy proves that very early on Ken Done realised the elements of sustainable joy.

“Judy are I are like-minded,” he said.

“And we have a shared visual understanding.

“But in 50 years there are hills and valleys, and you just have to find way to get through them.”

The couple also share two children and, to their great delight, three grandchildren. Ken said a great happiness came

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Forty years after connecting beach loving Australians with their sun soaked coastline, artist Ken Done is taking us to the polar opposite – Antarctica

IN THE FRAME: Ken Done has recently completed a series called Paintings from Antarctica.

from having his grandchildren in the art studio. He sets up the

studio before their arrival and then it’s a time for fun and freedom. In fact, the youngest has coined him the “Fundad”.

This year, Ken wrote his memoir “A Life Coloured In” and recalled his own years as young artist and how he used it to express his himself.

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This year he is preparing for a trip to islands off Scotland and he is looking forward to making more memories.

“You can’t look back for a second,” he said.

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Wealth of information At the Independence, Choice and Ageing Expo next month Belinda Scott

SEX – yes please, is the message that Rhonda Nay will be imparting to audiences at the Independence, Choice and Ageing Expo in Coffs Harbour on August 17.

The La Trobe University Emeritus Professor has been researching sex and aging since 1987 and has a wealth of information at her fingertips.

Prof Nay has been lobbying for recognition of the sexual rights of older people, including those with dementia and people embarking on their second century, both in and outside aged care homes.

There is a revolution under way in thinking about and legislating for aged care and it is not just about sex.

Another speaker at the expo, Judy Gregurke, will be talking about changes to aged care laws and regulations.

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manager for aged care reforms with the Council of the Ageing (COTA) and an expert in this area.

Marie Beswick will talk about how to navigate the new national digital portal My Aged Care, which requires people to register to be assessed as ready for aged care services like home care packages.

Marie is the integrated aged care manager with the Mid North Coast Area Health Service.

Alzheimer’s Australia ambassador Ita Buttrose will be the headline

Award-winning ballroom dancers David and Irena Brooks.

speaker at the expo, which will be held at C.ex Coffs in Vernon St from 10am–3pm on Wednesday, August 17.

Entry is free to the public.

Floral designers join forces INTERNATIONALLY recognised floral designers and friends Judith Little and Cecily Rogers will join forces for a floral art and design afternoon to launch a Coffs Coast floral art group at the Botanic Garden in Coffs Harbour on Sunday August 7.

Judith is based at Maclean and Cecily is based in Sydney but the two have worked together on major floral art pieces both in Australia and overseas.

Judith won the major

$5000 floral art prize at Sydney's Royal Easter Show in April with a dramatic design piece which appeared suspended in mid-air.

She will travel to Barbados next year to take part in the 2017 World Show.

Judith and Cecily placed third in the World Show in Boston in 2014 for their two-metre creation with inverted proportions on the theme of Storm.

Cecily is President of the NSW Royal Horticultural Society as

well as a floral designer; judge and TAFE teacher.

"I use any plant material to express ideas based on design," Judith said "It could be bark or roots – at my level no one cares what I like personally, it is all about the elements of design."

The afternoon will run from 1-4pm on August 7 and will be held in the Botanic Garden's function room. The event is free, no bookings are required and all interested people are invited to attend.

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One of the organisers of this year’s event, Paula Dowd from Community

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She said that duirng the 11 years they had been held, the expos had acquired an authoritative

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Life of a stonemason Dianne has forged a career on learning and teaching Belinda Scott

HERITAGE stonemason Dianne Hoschke says she must believe in continuing education.

She has spent most of her life either learning or teaching and usually both.

Dianne left school without her Higher School Certificate, a move which left her mother so unamused she did not sign her daughter’s apprenticeship papers.

Dianne describes her trade as the stone masonry equivalent of a cabinet maker in wood, creating carved stone mouldings for the surrounds of doors and windows.

“This is not like freestanding sculpture, it is more like bas-relief,” Dianne said.

Cutting and grinding stone looks like extremely hard physical work.

Along with 19 male apprentices, Dianne joined the Public Works Department in 1980 to learn her trade, in which

training had resumed after a 50-year hiatus.

Theoretical training in bricklaying and carpentry was included in the technical college course and after Dianne was asked to teach part-time, she also completed her clerk of works course.

Her trade took her to England to work with a heritage stone masonry firm in Wiltshire. When she returned to Australia she continued to work on public buildings, creating architectural mouldings and stone features for the PWD and the City of Sydney, then taught full-time at TAFE. Along the way she made plaques for centenary celebrations at Karangi and Upper Orara and for Woodford railway station.

After her husband retired and their son Alex reached high school age the couple abandoned their two-hour commute from their home in the Blue Mountains to Sydney and moved to a small farm in the Coffs Coast

Dianne Hoschke supervises work on the Labyrinth Project at Southern Cross University’s Coffs Harbour Campus. University chaplain Jan McLeod was inspired by labyrinths in cathedrals in Europe.

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countryside in 1993.

Dianne taught full-time for 16 years, diversifying from teaching stone work, construction and landscaping into also teaching primary

industries subjects after she gained her Diploma of Horticulture and adding teaching about management, sustainability and greenhouse building.

But Dianne says her “third age’’ won’t be about teaching, but practising what she has learned.

She is now enrolled in a Diploma in Creative Arts course and her own stone

work is moving from repairing old buildings and enhancing architecture to designing and making sculptural pieces using stone and durable found materials.

Vintage Machinery Museum plans for future

Doug Hoschke has spent a lifetime gathering pieces of local farming history and enjoys showing off the working machines.

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VINTAGE Machinery Museum president Doug Hoschke has been waiting for almost 30 years for a permanent home for his beloved machinery.

Doug and the other members of OVMM Inc. are now poised to sign a licence agreement with Coffs Harbour City Council which will give them 2100 square metres of land in Mastons Rd at Karangi for their museum.

A development application for a building has been approved.

Once the licence is signed, the next challenge

will be raising funds for the building, because most of the machinery would deteriorate if subjected to the weather, although there are plans for massive pieces like a log hauler and rock crusher to be displayed outdoors.

This is not your average museum – it is based in a rural area, it is devoted to working machinery rather than static exhibits and it is a member of the Men’s Shed Association as well as a member of the National Historic Machinery Association.

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I like just watching these simple old machines operate

— Ron Page

“People don’t understand that every men’s shed is different,” museum member and former Canberra resident Ron Page said.

“They all get men together to talk.”

Ron, a retired public

servant who collects old tools and whose father ran a trucking business, is also the secretary of the NHMA and has a special interest in the backgrounds of the different machines and how to display them.

“I like just watching these simple old machines operate and I do a bit of research to see who made them and what went with them.’’ he said.

“Some had their own tool kits – Lister Moffat Virtue made their own spanners with specialised shapes, for instance.’’

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Some of Boambee's Avachat group.

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Packing life into exhibition Spotlight is on ordinary people Belinda Scott

NOT only have her paintings for The Fragility of Dreams consumed her working hours for the past 18 months, these works contain within them the hopes and dreams, longings and creative endeavours of generation s of women.

The artist, who celebrated her 70th birthday last year, used her paternal grandmother’s quilt, with its soft cut-velvet texture and art deco patterns as the jumping off point for a series of pictures which also incorporates patterns from women’s handwork – knitted layettes; delicate smocking; cross stitch mats, lacy doilies and embroidery patterns of flowers and leaves, scallops and French knots.

“I always loved the quilt – as a child it was so exotic and fascinating and so different to what was in our house.”

The softened manywashed browns, greys and

creams of the old quilt and other quilts in the Coffs Harbour Museum collection 0its s recur in the pictures, as do images of Isabel’s own childhood.

“I am very interested in ordinary people’s lives,” Isabel said.

“We hear a lot about celebrities, but how

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how ordinary people lived their lives, we have no idea

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ordinary people lived their lives, we have no idea.”

She said the years of patient, hidden work by women rearing large families with little money went unrecognised.

Isabel can look back to days when, for most people, families were large, incomes small and being a woman meant being subjected to very

strict rules and harsh judgements on her housekeeping, child raising, cooking, cleaning and general demeanour.

She said she saw these women expressing their creativity in sewing, quilting, embroidery and flower gardening.

Her paintings link her own experience with not just the woman of her own family and the Sydney suburb of Lakemba where she grew up, but with the women of Coffs Harbour, where she now lives.

Also on show during July and August is an exhibition of the work of Coffs Harbour designer and artist Arno Thoener.

His boldly coloured geometric designs gained worldwide popularity in the 1960s; remain in circulation and are now seeing a revival of interest.

Completing the trio of shows are 730 tiny paintings of clothes worn by people featured in the news during a two-year period, painted by artist Maryanne Coutts.

averaging 40 people, equally split between men and women.

Age is no barrier, with people from 30 to 93 joining in the talk, encouraged by a round-table format with everyone contributing.

People new to the area find Avachat particularly valuable. They discover old acquaintances, neighbours or even relatives; form friendships; go on to join walking or art groups and discover common interests.

These days talk (and home made cake) is just the foundation of the Avachat program, which includes games, short trips, guided tours, lunches and guest speakers.

Members also help out at Boambee East Community Centre events.

Margaret Bridgman officially retired four years ago aged 70, after 10 years as the manager of Coffs Harbour’s huge Salvation Army thrift store.

As well as Avachat, she co-ordinates events at the community centre and volunteers in the hospital emergency department one day a week.

She says her involvement with the centre has been an eye opener, even after half a century of managing organisations as diverse as the Coffs Harbour Golf Club; Bunker Cartoon Gallery; Coffs Harbour

Tourism and Coffs Harbour Aero Club and being a student nurse, mother, grandmother, netball player, coach and the inaugural President of the Surfside Netball Club.

Margaret and her late husband Doug moved to the Coffs Coast in the 1970s after coming to the area for holidays.

Her encyclopaedic list of friends and contacts has been invaluable for sourcing guest speakers for Avachat and some have been a surprise.

Among popular speakers has been personable local undertaker Victor Rullis, who brought along a coffin for his talk, which proved a hit with the audience.

The Boambee community centre hosts everything from the Life Skills for Blokes program to a no-interest loans scheme; school holiday programs for children, dance, craft and church groups, psychological counselling – and hires out space for functions.

Margaret organises events as diverse as Carols on the Green; the Winter Solstice and the Young at Heart Seniors Film Festival at Sawtell’s Majestic Cinema. Her latest project is a calendar.

The community centre is expected to be self-sufficient financially, with some support from Coffs Harbour City Council.

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Isabel Ricketts with two of her paintings inspired by women's handwork, Tender Dreams and Flowering.

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CHATTING is one activity that can be enjoyed by all ages and at Boambee East’s community centre, that is exactly what happens every Monday morning.

Avachat, a catchy name inspired by the colourful movie Avatar, is the name of a group started three years ago by livewire volunteer and retired administrator Margaret Bridgman, which has struck a chord with the community living in the southern suburbs of Coffs Harbour.

“I thought when I retired I’d play golf and walk the dog,” Margaret said. “But I couldn’t stand it.

“Then Salvation Army Major Steve Metcher suggested I get involved with the community centre, which I honestly barely knew existed.

“We did a survey about what people in the area wanted and it came back that there was nothing in the area for seniors.”

The first meetings saw just the organiser, Margaret and a ring-in.

“We used to invite the staff for morning tea to bump up the numbers to five,” Margaret said. “I didn’t know what I was doing.”

But she persevered, invited people along, persuaded everyone they had something to say and interest in Avachat grew.

Now the group has a membership of 65, with weekly attendances

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Cover with cold water.

Bring water to the boil over high heat, reduce heat and boil for 10 minutes. Line aking tray with paper towel.

Remove jars using metal tongs and allow to air dry or dry with a clean paper towel.

Dishwasher: Place jars and lids in dishwasher on hottest cycle. Remove and place onto a paper towel-lined tray; the heat will dry them.

THRIFTY AND THRIVING NICKY NORMAN WORM farming is a great way to reduce your household food waste.

As long as you have a sheltered balcony or garden, it’s easy to do and creates nutritious plant food for your garden.

WHAT DO I NEED?

■ A worm farm ■ Compost worms – minimum 1000 (or 1000 x no. of people in your household) ■ Newspaper and a hessian sack ■ Food scraps ■ Compost (if building your own worm farm)

FIND A LOCATION

In summer, keep your worms in a cool, sheltered environment, away from direct sunlight.

In the colder months, move them into a sunny area to keep them productive as temperatures drop.

Where possible, place close to your kitchen so it’s convenient to maintain and add scraps.

SET UP YOUR WORM FARM

The easiest way to get started is to buy a commercially made worm farm. These usually have two or three layers, all of which do different things.

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In summer, keep your worms in a cool, sheltered environment, away from direct sunlight.

HOW DO I GET STARTED?

Add your worms and cover them with five sheets of damp newspaper and a hessian sack or old t-shirt.

Replace the worm farm lid and you’re ready to go.Once your middle layer is full to the brim, you can begin to use your top, or third, level.

Start by placing food, covered with your hessian sack, in this level, and your worms will gradually move upwards to live and feed.

REMEMBER:

■ Worm farms process less food than a compost bin, so make sure you’re not overfeeding your worms. Uneaten food will begin to smell and attract unwanted pests.

■ Each day a worm will consume approximately it’s body weight in food.

This means you can feed your worm farm a few handfuls every few days.

Once it’s established and the worms are breeding, you can try feeding them more food.

■ Cut food into small pieces.

More info: foodwise.com.au.

Secrets to IF YOU’VE been wanting to make jam but haven’t known where to start, here’s your chance.

Choose any fruit that’s ripe but still firm and try your own recipes, experiment with flavours, add a bit of whiskey to marmalade, cinnamon and vanilla bean paste to fig jam or rose-hip syrup to berry jam. When making jam, make sure you use all sugar in the recipe, this is needed to sweeten the jam and also as a setting agent. General rule of thumb, use a cup of sugar for every cup of chopped fruit.

To set, jam needs the right balance of acid and pectin. High-acid fruits

CHEAP EATS, NO TRUFFLES CHRISTINE PERKIN include oranges, lemon, grapefruit, cherries, green apples, pineapple, raspberries and plums.

If you’re using low-acid fruits, such as rhubarb, apricots, peaches and strawberries, you need to add lemon juice. A handy trick to help it set is to cook jam with a muslin bag full of pectin-rich lemon rind and seeds or you can buy pectin from most supermarkets.

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These figures shape the good life on earth FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK GAIL FORRER editor@seniorsnewspapers.com.au

best jam For best results, cook jam in small batches – this way the cooking time will be shorter and the fruit will retain its natural colour and flavour. I like to bottle in small jars about half a cup volume.

Making jam at home is a simple process that requires few ingredients, but it is easy to get it wrong.

A few simple rules to follow ■ 1. To set, jam needs pectin from the fruit and some varieties have more than others. For extra pectin, add a muslin pouch of lemon rind and seeds or store bought pectin available in your supermarket.

■ 2. Cook the fruit in a heavy-based pan until it’s soft but still holds its shape. This releases pectin and sets the jam.

■ 3. Skim foam from the surface as it cooks and to prevent burning, stir constantly for the last 10 minutes.

■ 4. Ladle the hot jam into clean, dry jars and invert for 2 minutes to seal.

To store Jam ■ Wash jars and lids in hot, soapy water or dishwasher, then rinse and dry on a rack ■ Store jam in a cool, dark place away for up to six months. Once opened, store in the fridge for up to six weeks.

Seriously Fun Facts About Recycling ■ If by some miracle you could save one ton of paper you would be saving 682.5 gallons of oil, seven thousand gallons of water and 3.3 cubic yards of space in your local landfill.

■ The next time you pull that roll of toilet paper off the shelf bow your head and give thanks for the 27,000 trees that give their lives for you each day.

■ Think we’ve moved to a paperless society?

Think again. Ninety-five per cent of the world’s information is still stored on physical paper never to be read or looked at again by anyone.

■ If you recycle a plastic bottle you will save enough energy to power a 60w light bulb for as long as six hours.

■ If you throw the bottle away as 2.5 million are thrown away each hour don’t worry – each one will decompose in 500 years.

■ In the ocean fish can’t tell the difference between plastic bags and jellyfish resulting in thousand of marine animal deaths.

■ Americans throw away enough soda cans and bottles to reach to the moon and back 20 times.

■ That recycled aluminium can could be

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If you have an iPod you could listen to an entire album with the energy saved by recycling just one aluminium can.

returned to store shelves in as little as 60 days.

■ If you have an iPod you could listen to an entire album with the energy saved by recycling just one aluminium can.

■ Or you could run a TV for two hours by recycling that single aluminium can.

■ Two thousand gallons of gasoline could be saved for every ton of recycled plastic.

■ According to a 2015 law all New York residents will face a $100 fine for not recycling their old outdated electronics, PCs, and TVs. ■ The world dumps 14 billion pounds of garbage into the world’s oceans every year. The vast majority of it is plastic.

■ Want to save 17 trees? Recycle one ton of paper products.

■ Processing new aluminium costs 95 per cent more than processing recycled aluminium.

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TOP TIP: Get rid of the chemicals and use items from your pantry like vinegar or baking soda to keep your house clean.

Simple advice for clever cleaning

FORMALDEHYDE, benzene and chloroform sound more like a concoction for chemical warfare, rather than ingredients in products used to clean family homes.

In a bid to turn back the clock, chemical-free cleaning is making a resurgence and while it’s certainly a help on the hip pocket, health concerns drove the move, as many believe in a higher life quality for some asthma and allergy sufferers.

Among the most affordable, and perhaps the most versatile, is baking soda. It can help in scores of household cleaning tasks and it is so safe you can even eat it.

Ideal for kitchen cleaning. A liberal sprinkle topped with boiling water will clean the cooktop, and similarly a roasting pan, but it may need to soak.

Removing pesky coffee mug stains is as easy as using bi-carb and a once over with a microfibre cloth.

Vinegar is popular for mopping floors, while leaving windows sparkling and can even return the gleam to gold jewellery. But while its most popular use is

floors, stick to vinyl and ceramic or porcelain tiles; avoiding stone and hardwood (eucalyptus oil is perfect for hardwood).

While clove oil can seem expensive upon first purchase, it is highly potent, thus users dilute ¼ teaspoon to each litre and store it in a spray bottle.

Most popular for removing mould, it works to kill the mould’s spores, unlike bleach, which simply disguises it.

Long used as a cure for tooth ache, oil of cloves is a great mould inhibitor for outdoor fabrics like garden shades and umbrellas as well as a multi-purpose spray.

TIPS FOR CLOVE OIL CLEANING ■ Add a quarter of a teaspoon of oil to a litre of water in a spray bottle ■ Lightly mist over fabric, then store away for months – mould and worry free ■ Waterproof leather by mixing a ¼ teaspoon clove oil with 500ml of baby oil, shake, then wipe a few drops using pantyhose to easily lift off any mould and prevent its return.

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How to slow the aging process

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the types of food that you eat, remembering that you only need half of what you ate when you were 30.

Older people need to eat plenty of protein, fruit and vegetables and good fats.

Junk food needs to be avoided, but is often unfortunately included in snacks between meals.

Thirdly, consider the amount of exercise that you take.

The occasional walk does not count as real exercise!

Active Ageing A good, brisk, daily walk is good for your health but with Dr Alec McHarg you also need to consider more strenuous exercise AFTER many years such as table-tennis, dedicated to uncovering resistance training, the secrets of slowing the swimming, dancing or aging yoga. process I Fourthly, challenge enjoy your the view that you only social and accelerated need half of creative aging is connections what you ate normal. and activities I would when you were but beware like to of those that 30. Older explain my involve a lot people need to steps of sitting or leading to a limited eat plenty of healthier movements. protein, fruit and more Next time, vibrant and vegetables I will review lifestyle. the and good fats.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS Your groups, your societies, your clubs, your friends

Slim Dustry music draws in his biggest fans

Our club meets at Coffs Ex Services Club on the second Tuesday of each month for a lunchtime meeting and interesting guest speakers. To book for a meeting call Heather on 6651 6801 by the Thursday prior to the luncheon. New members are most welcome.

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DUSTY MEMORIES: Probus Club of Coffs City members on an outing to the Slim Dusty Centre at Kempsey.

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COFFS HARBOUR DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC.

Joining a local family history group will give you lots of benefits for researching your family history. Our research centre has a wide range of

resources available for not only Australia but also many other areas around the world. Experienced duty monitors are always available for advice and assistance. Our research centre provides comprehensive resources for tracing families both here in Australia and also

overseas. We offer access to all research material, including books, microfilms, microfiche, computers and ViewScan Microfilm/Microfiche scanner. The next workshop will be held on August 27 at Coffs Harbour Uniting Church Hall. The topic will be How

to Present your Hard Copies of your Family History, presented by members of the society.

Cost $5 for non-members.

Bookings are essential.

Phone the society on 02 6651 6126 or email to coffsgenie@gmail.com Phone: 6651 6126 (during opening hours). Email:

The Probus Club of Coffs City is now in its 31st year, being formed on April 29, 1985 and now has a membership of nearly 80 women and men who enjoy regular outings to nearby attractions, theatre presentations and day trips, sometimes overnight stays as well as morning teas and lunch outings. It is a friendly club that promotes the Probus motto of the Three F’s – Fun, Friendship and Fellowship. The Probus Club of Coffs City holds monthly meetings in the Cavanbah Centre on the fourth Wednesday of the month, always with an interesting guest speaker and morning tea. If you are retired or semi-retired come along and join us.

We are not strangers, just friends that you haven’t met yet. If you would like more information call Ken Capps on 0407 438 283.

I’m sweating a lot more small stuff these days SNAPSHOTS OF LIFE ANN RICKARD ann.rickard@apn.com.au

OF ALL the things that creep up on us as we age – aching feet, creaking knees, deteriorating eyesight, you know them all – I never thought an increase in anxiety over

very small matters would be one of them.

But it is so.

I fret now about missing planes, trains, buses and dental appointments. The last one bothers me not much, admittedly, but it is the awful anxiety over small issues I now experience when I travel.

Where once I would book an airline ticket, throw it in the draw, never look at it again until I got to the airport check-in

counter, now I have to take it out of said drawer and check it half a dozen times a day leading up to my departure.

I fret in the car all the way to the airport that some detail on the ticket will be wrong and I won’t be allowed on the plane.

Then I worry my passport will somehow mysteriously disappear from the wallet I have secured it in and locked in my bag.

You never know, aliens

could come down, filter through the car roof, get into my bag and take it.)

(See? Real and stupid anxiety.)

As for catching trains in foreign countries.

Nightmare.

As a middle-aged person I would skip lightly on a train, full of anticipation of an exciting journey looking out the window to happy cows in idyllic countryside, now I almost foam at the mouth

with angst that I will be on the wrong train and heading in a direction quite opposite to the one in which I want to go.

I make light of this, but it is very real, and I now know how people who suffer constant anxiety feel. It’s a terrible and tangible thing and I don’t know what to do about it (apart from giving up travel, not negotiable.)I blame on my husband (why not? he cops it for

everything else.)

He was refused embarkation on a flight recently because his ticket was in the name of ‘Geoff’ and his passport was in the name of "Geoffrey". They would not make the change at the airport and not let him on.

I had to go on without him.

So, anxiety piled on top of stress on top of fretfulness is the go for me now as an older traveller.

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Finding meaning

What kind of elder do you want to be?

In these winter months it’s an opportune time for reflection. What makes your life meaningful in your elder years?

It’s an extraordinary time to be alive! As our lifespan is greater than any generation before us, we can shape ourselves into the kind of elder we want to be. We now have a smorgasbord of activities and experiences to delve into.

Waking up feeling optimistic about your day is a sure sign that your life has meaning. For many, this time is for re-defining oneself.

Perhaps mourning the loss of our younger self, or identity? Letting go of one’s former identity can be difficult for some.

In our quest to live meaningfully, I believe it’s to live authentically, in alignment with our values and personal ethos. With renewed confidence and

Mariana Trapera.

a “so what” attitude, our third chapter can be the most joyful and meaningful time of our lives.

Have you ever asked yourself “Who am I?”.

During our early years we may have searched outside for meaning, but

who we are usually results from an inner search. So you could say that ageing is an inside job!

In the past, ageing was mostly usually associated with growing old, disease and ultimately death.

Though much has changed for us, it can be seductive to buy into the ‘forever young’ look, and deny reality. Our lives are etched in our faces. What is the point of gathering years of experiences if only to erase them?

We can certainly feel vibrant and look young, but the value and meaning of our life experiences cannot be forgotten.

Even the gathering of wisdom is meaningful, don’t you think? As is the remembering of our own unique life that is full of gifts, like the Elder tree in your garden.

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Proper plans for retirement My Life Change WITH PAUL MCKEON

RETIREMENT can be “the best years of your life” or, they can be a struggle.

It all depends on whether you have a plan.

One of the most dangerous myths about retirement is that it’s all about having enough money.

Not only is this misleading, but it causes a lot of people unnecessary grief. I’m not saying that saving and organising your money isn’t important. It is. In fact it’s very important, but it’s NOT the whole story. Money is the means to an end – not an end in itself. Saving enough money and having a financial plan gives us security and options.

However if we don’t also think about a range of lifestyle issues and develop plans around them, we are making it much harder for our retirement years to be “the best years of your life”.

It’s important to have a realistic understanding about what the next stage of our life will really be like.

Because developing plans around lifestyle issues – where we want to travel, if we want to do casual work, our

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One of the most dangerous myths about retirement is that it’s all about having enough money. important relationships, etc – can be difficult, we have recently produced a DIY Retirement Plan. It helps you work through the key areas you’ll have to manage and guides you in developing plans to make the most of these retirement years.

To give you an idea of some of the issues that need to be considered when developing your own

retirement plan, here are a few of the questions that our DIY book asks you to consider: Managing Change Have you set any goals for your retirement years?

What dreams and passions do you want to explore Do you have any sports, hobbies or interests to keep you active and involved?

Are you planning to stay in your current home or downsize?

Do you or your partner intend to do some paid work in the future?

Finances Do you know approximately how much money you’ll have when you retire?

Do you know what your monthly living expenses will be?

Have you prepared an annual budget?

Have you spoken to Centrelink to find out how big a pension you are likely to receive?

Do you have a will and an Enduring Power of Attorney?

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Hurdles, highjumps and solutions

Goodwill of global village not arrived FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK GAIL FORRER

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OLDER people are a diverse demographic who have proven to be of great help during disasters and emergency situations rather than needing help.

While a panel of global experts talking about catastrophes and the older person presented statistics showing extremely high mortality rate next to other age groups during natural disasters, they also urged policy makers to

recognise the aging population’s diversity.

Godfrey Paul, Senior Regional Manager of HelpAid international wasted no time in giving us a reality check, He said the 21st century as we thought it would happen had not arrived.

He said we had envisaged a contemporary world as shrunk in time and space, a tightly knit global village.

Instead we have a world of war and hate.

At the same time we are faced with two mega trends simultaneously converging on us – ageing and climate change.

Along with fellow panellists discussing the older person and natural catastrophes, he called for the stereotypical definition of the older

person as the passive recipient of age, to be replaced with a recognition of the demographics diversity.

Dr Lisa Brown of California was on the same page, who went further and suggested that older people should be considered for volunteer roles during emergencies. She said that older people could seen as a resource for assisting, not necessarily in need of assistance.

“Age in and of itself does not make a person vulnerable.”

“We do not place all teenagers and infants in the same category,’ but if a person has grey hair, we assume they are vulnerable and need services.

“We need a new narrative.”

She said disaster planning could be an opportunity for community development, that it was a time to talk about needs and support and peer education.

Professor Junko Otani of Osaka University noted that Japan had the largest ageing population in the world. She called Japan a “super ageing society” and advised that Italy was placed after Japan.

She emphasised that data revealed that during natural disaster it was peer groups and neighbours who helped the older person rather family members, thus realising the importance of social engagement in disaster planning.

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Wellbeing for an ageing demographic IF you think things get tougher as you get older, then it’s time to think again.

During a three-day period Global speakers at International Federation of Ageing, 13th Global Conference (June 21–23) introduced a range of new knowledge aimed towards the well-being of an ageing demographic.

Speakers included Oxford academic Dr Sarah Harper, who is a professor of Gerontology and Senior Research Fellow Nuffield College.

She talked about challenges and opportunities.

The practicalities of technology will support independent living through home aids.

In terms of mature-age employment she cited

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a particular car manufacturer where robots released older workers from manual labour and increased their working life through the provision of physically easier computer generated design work.

On the issue of employment, she urges education to be made available for every age-group – “to ensure work opportunities”.

The case for vaccinations for older people Below is and explanation and argument for vaccinations for older people.

IN the current climate of heated debate around childhood vaccination and “no jab no play” laws, it is easy to lose sight of society's other disease-vulnerable group: the elderly. In fact, with vaccination rates significantly higher in infants than in their grandparents – despite free vaccines being provided for both groups – it becomes painfully clear just how neglected this aspect of their health is.

Why? The role of health providers is critical.

Provider attitudes are one of the most powerful determinants of immunisation. If a doctor doesn’t recommend it, it often doesn’t happen. The most common response given by elderly patients when asked why they haven’t been vaccinated is “because my doctor never told me”.

Why this is happening is complex. The lack of an adult immunisation register has certainly

played an important part, and the roll out this year of the whole-of-life immunisation register is anticipated to remove some barriers, simply by making it easier for GPs to track whether their patients are vaccinated or not.

However, much of the poor uptake is simply down to negative health provider attitudes.

Vaccines in patients over 65 just don’t work that well, so why bother, they may think.

While it is true that cell mediated immunity wanes exponentially after the age of 50 years, the real question is, does it really matter? A vaccine waning to unacceptably low levels in 10 years is important if you have 80 years ahead of you, but less so if you’re looking down the barrel of 10. Besides, most vaccines have acceptable efficacy in the elderly, and novel research and strategies can improve vaccine immunogenicity in the elderly.

We also need to rethink our understanding of

vaccine efficacy.

Vaccinologists think of vaccines as poor if efficacy is less than 80% and totally unworthy if under 60%. But compared to other accepted preventive public health strategies, elderly vaccinations fare well.

Statins ( a drug that reduces the level of cholesterol) have an efficacy as secondary prevention of approximately 25% and yet are accepted

worldwide. Vaccines in the elderly are as good as statins in terms of public health impact.

Efficacy is also not the whole story. With so many of the elderly affected by vaccine-preventable diseases, even a vaccine of modest efficacy results in lives saved. Vaccines also may have additional benefits such as prevention of heart attacks (flu vaccine).

And there are so many reasons to keep our

seniors in good health.

Around a third of working mothers have a grandparent helping with childcare, exposing them to a much higher risk of disease transmission from young to old.

Infections like whooping cough can be lethal to infants, many of whom are cared for by grandparents.

And it’s hard to care for a sick child when you’re sick yourself.

We also expect older Australians to stay in the

work force a lot longer and have high expectations of their ability to perform.

Vaccinations can significantly reduce the number of sick days.

Better for employers and employees alike.

And finally, we get down to money. Being sick costs the economy.

Being hospitalised cripples it. In the past year, Australia racked up tens of millions on vaccine-preventable hospitalisations. Older Australians made up a large proportion of these.

Looked at in this way, vaccines should be seen as an investment, rather than a cost.

But the most important reason to vaccinate the elderly is because our seniors have a right to health and to be able to do what they value.

They have a right to avoid getting sick when there are safe, cost effective ways of doing so.

We should reflect on why there is an immunisation gap in rates of vaccination for free childhood and elderly vaccines.

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THINK MONEY PAUL CLITHEROE

AS HUMANS we seem to instinctively want to find an easy way to make money quickly. Perhaps this explains why property spruikers continue to drum up business. But consumer regulators around Australia are warning about so-called property investment promoters who claim to be ‘wealth creators’ but who are really just in it for themselves.

Over 30 years in the money business, I’ve come across more than a few dodgy property investment schemes, and they are often marketed through free property seminars with invitations sent via mail, email or promoted on social media.

The details may differ however a common thread

is often the grandiose claims of the people running the seminar.

As the government’s MoneySmart website notes, one property investment seminar featured “Four of Australia’s greatest financial superstars”. Yet when our investment watchdog ASIC checked them out, none of the presenters had an Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence. In fact, three of the four speakers were found to live and work in the USA. Who knows what their credentials were?

If you do attend one of these seminars, be prepared for some high pressure sales tactics designed to convince you to invest in a property – often as selected by the spruiker.

You may be bombarded by claims of high capital growth backed up by inferences that the investment scheme is government approved.

AIR opens doors to a network in retirement Stewart Howard, AIR

RETIREMENT can be intimidating. After spending 40-plus years in the workforce, you’re probably at the top of your game – having risen to a level of responsibility where colleagues seek your advice.

Over the decades your income will have increased, allowing you to indulge in personal interests while also supporting those near and dear. Then all of a sudden, your world tilts on its axis.

Friday afternoon sees the grand farewell party .

Sincere promises to “keep in touch” resonate from the crowd

as you walk away; a pathway unfamiliar and unknown.

And then what?

Back in 1990 a group of people formed the Association of Independent Retirees (AIR) in order to offer a support network. It’s still going strong with more than 5000 members nationally. Importantly, AIR opens doors to a broad-ranging network of other retirement groups and clubs while offering socialising for its members at an intelligent level.

So, if you feel cut off from conversations of substance and the sharing of knowledge at peer-to-peer level, come along.

More worrying, you could find yourself being encouraged to use your home as security to borrow significant sums of money to invest.

I won’t argue that a sensibly priced, well located property can be an excellent long term investment. But our

consumer watchdog – the ACCC, is advising against attending these property investment seminars.

Many ordinary Australians have suffered financial loss after relying on the unsubstantiated claims of a property spruiker.

And when you think about, if an investment

scheme works so well, why don’t the spruikers use it to get rich themselves? The answer is painfully obvious. The schemes don’t work.

If you decide to attend a property investment seminar, look for the telltale warning signs – like being rushed into a

be prepared for some high pressure sales tactics designed to convince you to invest in a property

decision, or enticements like discounts offered to attendees who sign up on the day.

If the spruiker also supplies mortgage broking, conveyancing and/or tax advice the alarm bells should definitely start ringing.

And if you are encouraged to use your own home to fund the investment, don’t walk, run.

For more information on property spruikers, visit the MoneySmart website.

Paul Clitheroe is a founding director of financial planning firm ipac, Chairman of the Australian Government Financial Literacy Board and chief commentator for Money Magazine.

Plan for interest rates low in the longer haul?

WE NOW live in a global economic environment with zero or negative interest rates in substantial parts of the developed world. This is a result of events that have unfolded over a 30-year period and if we look to the past, we might see a repeating theme.

The result of the prolonged period of interest rates trending down has been a series of investment booms and busts, from the Japanese property bubble of the late 1980s through the “Asian Tigers” (and Asian crisis) of the 1990s, the tech bubble (and burst) in the 2000s, followed by the US (and other) housing booms (and GFC), China’s construction boom (a direct response to the GFC’s impact on its export industries) and the spill-over to resources (which is now fading), to the biotech bubble of the last two years. In Australia we are currently witnessing an ever-surging number of new apartments being built across our capital cities as part of an overall home

building program, which on a per capita view equals China’s 12.5 million starts.

With high levels of indebtedness after such growth, the system is more sensitive to interest rate increases. There is also significant excess capacity in all the areas that saw over-investment (eg mining), which reduces the need for further activity. While some think that low rates would encourage consumption, the reality is that low rates are leading people to save more for longer to meet their financial goals.

Inflation has been low for almost three decades.

The key drivers underlying the current low inflation are the opening up of trade with developing economies that has provided and will continue to provide an enlarged pool of labour; advancements in technology, particularly in terms of the impact on effyuiciency across a wide range of industries (think Uber, Airbnb, for example), have had and will continue

to have a deflationary effect; and governments have been more disciplined with fiscal spending in recent years.

This kind of low-yield low-inflation environment is not without precedent.

Jonathan Wilmot from Credit Suisse has produced some quality analysis on the two historical periods that most closely resemble the post-GFC era: the global recession in the 1890s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The key lesson from these earlier episodes is that interest rates stayed low for 25 years from the start of the crisis. While economic systems have changed in significant ways since then, a similar pattern across the three periods can be observed in many metrics (Wilmot pointed to unemployment, industrial production, corporate earnings and credit issuance).

With a potential long-term interest rate environment ahead it could be a good time to ensure your investment strategy is suited to

current times.

Includes excerpts from article by Platinum Asset Management For more Information contact Tim Maher at Maher Digby Securities Pty Ltd - Financial Advisers – AFSL No. 230559 Ph: 07 5441 1266 or visit www.maherdigby.com.au This document was prepared without taking into account any person’s particular objectives, financial situation or needs. It is not guaranteed as accurate or complete and should not be relied upon as such.

Maher Digby Securities does not accept any responsibility for the opinions, comments, forward looking statements, and analysis contained in this document, all of which are iof a general nature.

Investors should, before acting on this information, consider the appropriateness of this information having regard to their personal objectives, financial situation or needs. We recommend consulting a financial advisor.

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HEALTHY AGEING - latest info where to find it latest techology what it does enjoy the speakers

Autonomy and choice Living Well Expo explores latest reforms Advertorial

KEYNOTE speeches exploring the latest reforms to aged care, accessing local services through the My Aged Care portal and ageing and sexuality will headline the Coffs Harbour Living Well, Independence, Choice and Ageing Expo being held on Wednesday, August 17, at C.ex Coffs from 10am–3pm.

Alzheimer’s Australia ambassador Ita Buttrose AO OBE will join speakers Judy Gregurke, National Manager Aged Care Reforms from COTA Australia, Marie Beswick, District Integrated Aged Care Manager MNCLHD and Rhonda Nay, Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University to inform Coffs Coast residents about

how to navigate the changes to aged care that are being implemented.

"Older people make a vital contribution to our society and they deserve to be treated with respect,” Ms Buttrose said.

“People have a right to choose how they live as they age and to be able to access appropriate support and services as needed."

Rhonda Nay has been lobbying for the sexual rights of older people for almost three decades.

"In the western world we associate sexuality with young firm bodies,” Prof Nay said.

“How many of us fit that description? We may have problems with older people and people with dementia expressing their

sexuality but it is not our business.

“Our role as health professionals or families is to support older people to be everything they can be."

In addition local service providers will be available in the auditorium to chat with families, carers and people requiring support to remain independent and improve health and wellbeing through connectedness on social, physical and emotional levels.

This is a free event. All members of the community are invited to attend. There will be entertainment, prizes and refreshments.

Sponsorship packages are available. Visit www.midcoast communities.org.au.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ita Buttrose will join speakers from COTA, The Mid North Coast Local Health District and Professor Rhonda Nay at the Living Well Expo.

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Know your support and get fit and mobile ADVERTORIAL

AS WE age and our need for mobility aids and equipment increases, subsidy funding through the government is an essential means for living comfortably.

Government- funded schemes provide funding for mobility aids and equipment to enable the aged population to grow old comfortably at home, avoiding early hospitalisation or residential care.

There are many funding schemes available throughout Australia to subsidise mobility aids and equipment such as oxygen on a permanent loan basis or private ownership basis. In Queensland the

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Options Subsidy Scheme (VOSS), and Specialist hospital-based scheme (Cystic Fibrosis Program). To apply for assistance from MASS, you need to have a permanent disability or stable condition, hold a pensioner concession card, healthcare card or Queensland Government Seniors Card and be assessed by a clinician.

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Hair it is: live with it or bring it back

GOOD MEDICINE Dr MICHAEL GILLMAN MALE pattern hair loss is a common condition affecting most men as they age. Significant balding affects around 20% of men in their 20s, 30% of men in their 30s and nearly half of men in their 40s.

The hair loss usually begins receding at the temples followed by the back of the head around the crown region. In some men, the loss can be extensive with the entire top of the head left without hair.

Most men accept male pattern hair loss as a normal part of aging, but in some men it can be a cause of distress, particularly if it occurs at an early age.

Medical treatments are available. The two main therapies are Finasteride and Monoxidil.

Finasteride is a tablet that blocks the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone.

Dihydrotestosterone acts on the hair follicles, causing the hair to gradually become thinner and shorter. By reducing this compound, the hair follicles are not affected to the same degree.

It can take up to four months to have an effect and up to two years before hair regrowth is noticeable.

Sixty percent of men taking this tablet each day will experience some hair regrowth while 30% will have no hair regrowth. In the 30% group, most will not have any further hair loss.

Side effects are uncommon, but 2% of men may experience a lower sex drive because of

its action on testosterone.

Minoxidil is a lotion that is applied to the head twice daily.

It can take up to four months before results are seen.

Fifteen percent of men using this treatment will see hair regrowth while 30% will experience continued hair loss.

Again side effects are uncommon but some men will experience skin irritation or rash.

Hair transplantation is a process where tiny plugs of hair are taken from areas where hair growth is still occurring and inserting them into balding areas.

Multiple sessions are usually needed but the results are generally good and are permanent.

If you are distressed by this condition, see your GP and try one of the treatment options above. www.drmichael gillman.com

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Longing for Lugano Ann Rickard

IF THERE is one region in Europe that makes you go weak at the knees with longing it has to be Lugano, on the border of Switzerland and Italy.

Actually there are several European destinations that can cause shaky knees but it is the combination of regal mountains and placid lakes, melded with Swiss precision and the Italian zest for life, that makes Lugano so alluring.

Then there is the thought of George Clooney having a villa down the road in Italy.

Lugano is in southern Switzerland in the canton of Ticino where the people speak Italian, the weather is balmy and the ambience is Mediterranean. It is simply gorgeous.

Lugano is an important financial

centre but you won’t be concerned with business matters when you are surrounded by green parks, Mediterranean squares, galleries, museums, lakeside boulevards, high-end restaurants and too many events and festivals to choose from.

Such a beautiful destination calls for a special hotel with a Lake Lugano view, and they don’t come any better than the Villa Principe Leopoldo.

Just driving into the hotel’s circular driveway to look up at the stately historic building gives you a sense of importance. This Relais and Chateux property was once the house of Emperor William’s brother-in-law. The lake and mountain views from this beautiful building are astounding. You will not want to leave to go down to the town even though much awaits you

there.

This is a destination hotel, where your room or suite is exquisitely and tastefully furnished and your bathroom is full-marble glamour.

Everything about the property speaks of money – lots of it. All spent to achieve the utmost in elegance and style.

The villa was home to Prince Federico Leopoldo until his death in 1931. It was built at the end of the 19th century for the family’s summer residence and half of Europe’s nobility have been guests. You are in good company there. It was transformed into a hotel in 1986.

Dining is an important component of a Villa Principe Leopoldo visit. In summer the dining is outside beneath a marquee overlooking the vast and enigmatic lake where the mountains rise gracefully from its

shores.

This is five-star dining, yet it is not pretentious. The menu and wine list reflect the sophistication, and the chef may present you with many courses including goose liver confit, poached sole in green pea and wasabi broth, and perhaps some local cheese and then a sweet finish of parfait scented with elderflower syrup. As the sun goes down and the lights on the mountain across the lake begin to glow and shimmer you’ll be a very content person.

You deserve this. You wake up the next morning to the lake and mountain views and go to breakfast where you know sublime offerings will be presented to you on the balcony. *The writer was a guest of Tourism Switzerland.

Cooktown is a remote treasure rich in history

PICTURESQUE: Cooktown in far north Queensland delights visitors each year.

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COOKTOWN, located at the mouth of the Endeavour River, is home to about 2500 people and was first settled in 1873 as a port to service the nearby Palmer River Goldfields.

There is an Aboriginal Community Centre on the main street called Gungarde (the original Aboriginal name for the region) which features the Milbi (or Story) Wall, marking the place of the first encounter between the British seafarers and

the local people. The wall tells the story of Cooktown and the Endeavour River from the perspective of the Aboriginal people in tiles and is an outstanding monument to reconciliation. Also located in the main street is the Cooktown History Centre, which is housed in the oldest building in Cooktown. It was erected in 1875 as Cooktown’s first post and telegraph office.

Located in another

historic building is the James Cook Museum which is housed in a rare 19th century brick building constructed during the period of the 1880s gold rush.

The museum houses a lot of the history of the area including an original canon and anchor from the HM Bark Endeavour.

Travellers coming into Cooktown will pass through the incredible Black Mountain National Park. To come around a corner and see the huge

mountains of black boulders is a sight to behold.

■ IF YOU GO: Located 2000km north of Brisbane, 330km north of Cairns. Closest town to the Great Barrier Reef and gateway to Cape York.

Serviced by Hinterland Aviation six days a week (+ every second Sunday).

Contact: 1300 359 428.

Trans North operates a bus service every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday via the inland route. (07) 4095 8644.

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cruising

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CRUISE IN STYLE: The Seabourn Odyssey is a special 10-day, wine-themed cruise from Athens to Monte Carlo.

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Connoisseur’s Dream

10-day cruise includes exclusive wine tastings, parings and winery tours SEABOURN has announced it will host this year’s signature epicurean voyage on Seabourn Odyssey in the Mediterranean with the line’s head sommelier Sebastian Pacheco hosting a special wine-themed cruise from Athens to Monte Carlo.

A dream voyage for wine enthusiasts, the 10-day

cruise will include Seabourn Conversations with wine experts, exclusive tastings and pairings as well as winery tours and special events on shore.

Other highlights will include an exclusive Shopping with the Chef event, a cooking demonstration and a special pasta dinner.

Seabourn Director of Sales in Australia Tony Archbold said wine was an important aspect of Seabourn’s award-winning culinary offering.

"Guests on this cruise will be able to enjoy Sebastian’s infectious passion for wine as he leads them on a very special journey through the Med," Mr Archbold

said.

The 10-day cruise on Seabourn Odyssey departs Athens on October 29, 2016, and includes calls at ports in Greece, Italy, Malta and France en route to Monte Carlo, with fares starting from $4299* per person double occupancy.

Seabourn’s intimate, award-winning ships offer

key elements that set them apart: spacious, thoughtfully appointed suites, many with verandas; superb dining in a choice of venues; open bars throughout the ship; fine wines poured at lunch and dinner; award-winning personalised service and a relaxed, sociable atmosphere that makes guests feel right at home

while on board.

All-inclusive fares offer tremendous value for one of the world’s finest travel experiences.

For more information about Seabourn call 13 24 02 or visit www.seabourn.com *subject to availability, conditions apply

P&O passengers make history on remote island

TIME TO GO: PNG is calling.

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P&O Cruises’ Pacific Jewel made history last week by becoming the first cruise ship to call at one of the most remote island groups in the world – the Conflict Islands in Papua New Guinea.

The uninhabited islands became P&O’s latest cruise destination – and eighth port in Papua New Guinea – when the 2000-guest ship anchored off Panasesa Island last Tuesday.

The historic call was part of a landmark partnership for the region,

with the cruise line working closely with entrepreneur and passionate conservationist Ian Gowrie-Smith to bring cruise ships to his islands – one of only a few parcels of land owned freehold in Papua New Guinea.

A picturesque group of 21 islands surrounding a bright blue lagoon, the Conflict Islands are home to one of the world’s most biodiverse reef systems.

During their visit, guests made the most of the island paradise by

kayaking, snorkeling and stand-up paddleboarding as well as taking tours in glass bottom boats and outrigger canoes.

The only cruise line offering calls to the untouched Conflict Islands, P&O has added the destination to 11 of its Papua New Guinea itineraries in 2016.

P&O Cruises president Sture Myrmell said P&O was excited to be bringing undiscovered paradises like the Conflict Islands within reach of more Australian holidaymakers.

“Even though they are close to Australia, many of Papua New Guinea’s picturesque islands are rarely visited because they are difficult to access.

“Cruising really is the easiest way to see this stunning corner of the world so we’re thrilled to add the beautiful Conflict Islands to our great list of destinations,” Mr Myrmell said.

For more information visit pocruises.com.au, call 13 24 94 or see a licensed travel agent.

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Gems of hidden islands An expedition team will provide insights into flora and fauna Advertorial

CRUISECO, the leading provider of cruising options in the Southern Hemisphere, is pleased to offer an exclusive 40 night Australian circumnavigation aboard Ponant’s magnificent L’Austral, departing Sydney on 25 January 2018.

As a small luxury, expedition vessel, L’Austral has the capability to dock in smaller ports, providing guests with the opportunity of accessing unique destinations and

the ability to explore secluded locations via Zodiac, in an intimate and authentic experience.

This voyage is an opportunity of a lifetime and will be enhanced by a specialist expedition team that will provide insights into the history, flora, fauna and stunning landscapes of each port.

This remarkable itinerary has been exclusively designed by Cruiseco with the option to select from a number of overnight excursions away from the vessel.

For example, guests can depart L’Austral in

Cooktown and re-join her in Port Douglas, having visited Cape Tribulation and the Daintree National Park.

Additional highlights of this voyage include marvelling at the 12 Apostles in Port Campbell, Victoria, with an option to view this natural phenomenon from the sky; visiting The National ANZAC Centre in Albany, Western Australia; and exploring Darwin, Northern Territory with optional tours to Kakadu and its surrounds.

Accommodating guests within 132 cabins across

nine suite categories, L’Austral remains true to the Ponant philosophy of creating a unique atmosphere, with a subtle blend of luxury and wellbeing. Guests aboard L’Austral will encounter a chic and elegant yacht-like ambiance, refined and personalised service, as well as gastronomic traditional French and international cuisine.

For prices or more information on this voyage, contact our concierge team on 1800 225 656 or visit our webpage on www.cruising.com.au

Ponant’s L’Austral provides a chic, yacht-like experience.

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Active holidays at a pace you can enjoy

Take a voyage and find friends If you want to see the world, but are hesitant to go it alone, you will make friends fast aboard any Swan Hellenic and Voyages of Discovery cruise. Have the time of your life sharing experiences with like-minded travellers.

Both Swan Hellenic and Voyages of Discovery have their own unique quirks and subtleties, but both promise a more intimate journey into the most beautiful destinations. Both cruise lines have fabulous single traveller fares specially designed for people travelling

independently and can tailor a cruising holiday to suit all budgets.

For the remainder of 2016 into 2017 Swan Hellenic’s small ship Minerva will be taking in the treasures of Europe, the Mediterranean and Atlantic Isles. These 2016-17 itineraries have been expertly planned to ensure you uncover the heart and soul of each destination, featuring plenty of time ashore, many overnight stays in port and an extensive shore excursion program.

For something a little different in 2017 Voyages of Discovery’s European

journey begins with the exploration of the shores of the British Isles and some wonderful destinations in the Baltic Sea and northern Europe before discovering ports in the Mediterranean, Aegean and Adriatic Seas.

The season ends with a visit to some of the beautiful islands of the Atlantic Ocean.

In Europe Voyager will take in 17 new ports of call, including the rugged island of Zakynthos where you can enjoy white-sand beaches and shimmering turquoise waters.

Closer to home she will visit historic Londonderry with its 17th century city walls, before heading to glamorous Monte Carlo, where you can admire its spectacular casino and beautiful harbour. For the first time, Voyager will explore the inland waterways of France as she sails to the elegant cities of Bordeaux and historic Rouen.

Contact Discover Travel Shop on 1800 OCEANS (623 267) or contact your local travel agent for Swan Hellenic and Voyages of Discovery’s latest specials.

TAKE in Europe’s most remarkable destinations on wheels and a boat with innovative provider Outdoor Travel, suitably billed as the Active Holiday Company.

Stop for a moment and imagine yourself wending down quiet lanes, floating down scenic waterways and discovering the unspoilt gems that Europe has to offer.

Some places in the world merit slowing the pace and Outdoor Travel holidays allow you to do just that. On any one of our Bike and Barge itineraries in Europe, you’ll spend your days discovering cultural highlights, beautiful countryside and historical cities with like-minded cyclists.

The best part is, you unpack just once and return each day to your floating home – to a wonderful meal and a comfortable cabin with your own bathroom. These cruises are rapidly becoming the thing to do in Europe. Appealing to the more mature active traveller, they provide activity and relaxation in equal doses.

Consider the Amsterdam to Bruges trip, a fabulous one-week exploration of Holland and western Belgium in which you visit historical centres, quaint towns and charming canals.

The cycling tour takes you through fairytale medieval towns, cobblestone lanes and market squares. After exploring Amsterdam, the cycle route will take you to an area called Kinderdijk, where you can wander the dikes and watch the spinning sails of Holland’s

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most famous windmills – there are 19 in total.

Another option, for a French flavour, is to join a group to the Champagne area, from Reims to Paris, a sparkling sensation through the lush patchwork of vineyards and one of France’s most famous wine areas. You will cycle through winding valleys, quiet streets and quaint villages. Leaving Champagne for the region of Brie, the landscapes of pastoral farmlands and terracotta houses unfold around you. The tour finishes in Paris for you to explore the wonderful charms of this beautiful and romantic city.

Outdoor Travel has more than 30 years of experience in organising active holidays around the world, from hiking the Milford Track in New Zealand to cooking in Provence in France. Their European bike and barge holidays are interesting and varied, and cater to leisure cyclists and enthusiasts alike. Popular destinations include France, Holland, Italy, Romania, the Danube in Austria, Croatia, Greece, Turkey and Vietnam.

Go to outdoortravel.com.au or call 1800 331 582 for more information.

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City will come alive Performers to flip over September festival LAUGHTER IN THE STREETS OF COFFS HARBOUR

Every year in Coffs Harbour, locals and visitors alike get to look forward to one week in September when the streets, parks, clubs & hotels of the beach side city literally come alive with all sorts of fun and laughter. It is of course the annual Buskers and Comedy Festival and what makes this event so unique is that the weeklong festival is largely made up of free events.

With a gathering of Australian and international street performers, it is a real “hoot” as acrobats, jugglers, comedians and all manner of craziness ply their trade to audiences who reward them at the end of their show with a donation into the “hat”.

Performances will take place in Coffs Harbour city centre and nearby Brelsford Park, a special Kids Day staged at the Coffs Harbour Racecourse, family shows in the Botanic Gardens and evening adult comedy performances in hotels at the Jetty Strip, Park Beach and Moonee. Patrons visiting the Harbourside

showcase their talents and skills.

Brand new for this year will be a “Friday night Carnivale” in association with Christina Monneron and Kulturithmic. Inspired by recent travels overseas, Christina will team up with the Festival to present a Latino style event full of fire, dancing, Latin grooves and a whole lot more. Website: www.coffsharbour buskers.com

THE STOMPING IVORIES DUELIN’ PIANO SHOW

FESTIVITIES: Zimboys, originally from Kenya, will be performing for during the festival.

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Markets at the Jetty Foreshore will also see buskers performing under shady trees while shoppers at Toormina Gardens will be treated to some undercover fun and frivolity. Festival organiser, John Logan said,”There will be 15 great shows and

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everyone gets to see their favourite event.”

Local artists are not forgotten either with a ‘’locals day” to kick off the festival on Sunday, September 25 to Sunday, October 2. Aspiring Coffs Coast performers and entertainers will

Lady Gaga to Gershwin, the honky tonk of Elton John, AC/DC or the swinging class of Frank Sinatra - you request the songs -they bring them to life duelin’ on two baby grands. These three talented musicians have performed everywhere from glamorous casinos to community halls, Parliament House ballroom and been featured on ABC TV’s Landline programme. Last year’s shows were sell-out shows with the audience dancing in the aisles and begging for more – don’t miss out this time.

August 19 and 20 at 7.30pm Where Bunker Cartoon Gallery, John Champion Way, Coffs Harbour 6651 7343.

Tickets $39 at the Bunker or online: StickyTickets.com .au/38075

28TH ROTARY CARTOON AWARDS

On July 15 – August 28.

Lots of laughs guaranteed with the 28th Rotary Cartoon Awards.

John Champion Way, Coffs Harbour 6651 7343.

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ENTERTAINMENT festivals dance cartoon awards acrobatis

MELBOURNE BALLET COMPANY – ARCHE

Sunday, August 14, 2pm and 7.30pm Jetty Memorial Theatre, phone 6652 8088.

Tickets $45 adult, $42 concession.

In Greek mythology (Archè) indicates the beginning; the principle from which the elements rise and the force that explains their birth and death. Spiritually, the figure of the swan is seen as a messenger of the Gods and is associated with divinity itself. This production sees choreographer, Simon Hoy, evoke the powerful symbolism and ethereal image of the swan within Greek mythology and Irish folklore. Drawing inspiration from classics such as W.B Yeats’ ‘Leda and the Swan’ and Swan Lake’s ‘Odette’ and ‘The Dying Swan’, Hoy has composed a marvellously powerful and uplifting program of contemporary ballet that is stimulated by the fundamental concept of evolution and rebirth.

Set to music by Jeannrenaud, Morricone, Einaudi and Tchaikovsky, the Melbourne Ballet Company’s latest production embodies much of the emotion, line and silhouette of the swan, whist exploring the elemental forces of earth, wind, air and fire.

ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE

8pm Friday, August 26, Saturday, August 27, Jetty Memorial Theatre, Coffs Harbour.

Tickets $45, $40 concession. JMT phone 6652 8088 Always… Patsy Cline is more than a tribute to the legendary country singer

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who died tragically at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963.

The show is based on a true story about Cline’s friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk in 1961, and continued correspondence with Cline until her death.

The musical play, complete with down home country humour, true emotion and even some audience participation, includes 27 of Patsy’s unforgettable hits such as Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams and Walking After Midnight.

The show’s title was inspired by Cline’s letters to Seger, which were consistently signed "Love ALWAYS… Patsy Cline."

It has been one of the most produced musicals in America according to American Theatre Magazine. Always… Patsy Cline has also been enjoyed internationally by audiences in Canada, the UK and Australia. This new production directed

by AFI award winning Denny Lawrence stars award winning Australian Country Music singing sensation Courtney Conway as Patsy Cline and popular stage star Mandi Lodge (Menopause The Musical, Just the Ticket) as Louise Seger.

NO LIGHTS, NO LYCRA

7.15pm every Wednesday, Cavanbah Centre, Coffs Harbour. Join in the fun of Coffs Harbour's inclusive weekly dance event, open to people of all ages and diverse abilities $5 for an hour of great playlists covering plenty of genres of danceable music.

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Spread the pizza base with the pizza sauce leaving a 2cm edge.

Add the onions and the turkey to the strawberries and mix through the marinade. Distribute this topping over the pizza base evenly, then top with the brie and drizzle any remaining marinade over the top of the pizza.

Cook for 8-10 minutes or until the top is lightly browned and the base is crispy.

Cut pizza into 8 slices and top with the rocket. Serve immediately

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Serves 8-10 Ingredients 3 sheets of short crust pastry, defrosted 1 large egg, beaten 4 x 250g punnets strawberries, washed and hulled ¾ cup caster sugar 1 lemon, zest of 1 vanilla bean, slice open lengthways and scrape out the seed paste ¾ cup of water 3 tbs corn flour, mixed with the water 1 tbs icing sugar, for dusting rice, lentils or pastry weights for blind baking Method Preheat oven to 180°C and line a greased 24cm pie dish with 2 sheets of pastry, making sure the pastry is pushed down into the corners. You

will have to cut and join the pastry to fill in the gaps. Trim off excess pastry with a knife and use the remaining pastry to line the top of the rim, then with thumb and index finger pinch around the edge to form a crimped effect.

Blind bake – line the base with baking paper and fill with rice, lentils or pastry weights. Bake for 15 minutes then remove the paper and weights. Brush the base of the pie shell with egg wash and bake for a further 10 minutes to crisp the pastry.

In a small saucepan mash 1 punnet of the strawberries and add caster sugar. Stir over a medium heat until strawberry pulp begins to bubble and sugar dissolves.

Add the lemon zest, vanilla seed paste and the corn flour blended with the water. Stir continually until the liquid begins to bubble

rapidly. Let boil for 1 minute until it forms a very thick custard consistency. Set aside to cool.

Cut the remaining 3 punnets of strawberries in half lengthways and place in a large bowl.

When the sauce has cooled, gently fold through the fresh strawberries.

Pile the strawberry filling into the pie shell.

Slice the remaining pastry sheet into 1.5cm strips. Brush the outside rim of the pie shell with egg wash and create the lattice top by weaving the strips of pastry and pressing the ends into the pie edge. Brush the pastry with the remaining egg wash and bake for 15-20 minutes until the lattice top is cooked through.

Let cool for 30 minutes before serving dusted in icing sugar.

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GOOD BOOKS Check out the latest releases for your reading pleasure

Real life input in novel story

DVD review: Trumbo

Nostalgic tale of love, betrayal CHILDHOOD Christmases by the sea, young love, growing up in a changing world – so much is familiar and yet surprising in this book Janita Cunnington wraps decades of narrative around a family’s old river house on the fictional Broody River – analogous to the Noosa River at Munna Point where the author spent her post-war childhood holidays.

The familiarity of the

setting never makes it ordinary. Cunnington’s insightful, lyrical writing transcends the familiar in a debut novel of masterly storytelling.

This is the late 1940s, and the Broody River runs through a maze of sandbanks into the Coral Sea. On its southern bank lies the holiday town of Baroodibah.

But its northern shore is wild – unsettled except for The River House, an old weatherboard box on

stumps where the Carlyle family take their holidays.

Following the family’s story through the decades, The River House is a richly nostalgic novel about love and betrayal, personal tragedy and thwarted ambition, illusion and remorse. ❚ The River House by Janita Cunnington. ❚ Penguin Random House, RRP paperback $32.99, or ebook.

YOU might not know the name Dalton Trumbo, but you almost certain know some of his movies.

The talented screenwriter is responsible for penning everything from Roman Holiday to Spartacus, The Brave One, Johnny Got His Gun and Papillion.

But much of his work, including two Oscar winning scripts, was written under pseudonyms during Hollywood’s infamous blacklist at the height of anti-communist sentiments in the United States during the Cold War. The most famous of the blacklisted film professionals known to history as the Hollywood 10, Trumbo was an outspoken campaigner for Americans’ civil liberties and in particular their first amendment right to free speech.

Bryan Cranston, of Breaking Bad fame, plays Trumbo in director Jay Roach’s biopic of the chain-smoking writer.Trumbo is available on DVD now.

WE FIRST meet Constable Samantha (Sammi) Willis in JM Peace’s 2015 debut novel, A Time to Run. Sammi’s back in Peace’s second novel… but still a little gun shy and not yet on the streets.

That changes however, when allegations of paedophilia are made against a local man. The community, certain the police will be unable to help, start to take matters into their own hands. And before long there’s a death, assumed to be the result of a guilty conscience.

As a serving police officer on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Peace understands this ethical dilemma.

“Our court system is imperfect and police have to operate within its constraints. There is a huge difference between knowing that someone has done something, and being able to prove it to the standard required by the courts,” she says.

Author: JM Peace Pan Macmillan RRP $29.99

Beautiful story describing tolerance & acceptance MIMI (MM) Banning is a Harper Lee-esque figure whose debut book won a Pulitzer Prize.

Jaded by her success, Mimi disappeared from public life, not writing another word for three decades. But now in her 50s, she’s broke so penning a new novel.

Unbeknown to many, Mimi has a nine-year-old son, Frank, and part of the new publishing deal includes an assistant to help around the house.

It’s not until 25-year-old Alice Whitley arrives at the Banning residence that she discovers Frank’s eccentricities.

He has very strict rules about anyone touching him and dresses like a 1930’s movie character.

He’s a genius and very polite but also incredibly tactless.

Unsurprisingly things don’t go smoothly and the amazingly resilient Alice starts to wonder what she’s gotten herself into.

■ Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson

Whisperings in the Blood, Shelley Davidow

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THE potency of our desire to know who we are, to understand the blood that runs through our veins and find the source of our actions, has been the foundation for millions of stories.

In this case, Sunshine Coast author Shelley Davidow has journeyed through four continents and 100 years to bring to us the hearts and minds of her ancestors and their circumstances.

In a biographical memoir, she draws on her grandmother’s letters and diaries, then builds on the

factual moments with strong intuitive branches of delicate prose.

In sensitive detail Davidow captures the spirit of the times, how friendships flowered, risks were taken, decisions made. Some paid off while others didn’t.

Her story begins with her great-grandfather, Jacob Frank, a young Lithuanian Jew who plays the violin.

With too many memories of pogroms, he leaves his village and sails to New York for a better life.

The death of his beloved young bride forces him to assign his two children to a Jewish orphanage.

But these two children, Bertha and Myer, retain the memories of family love and act accordingly.

Twenty-five years later, Bertha sets sail for South Africa to marry a man she has never met, unaware of the tumult that lies ahead.

In time, her granddaughter Shelley, following those very steps in reverse, flees the violence of apartheid to live in America, before at

last finding home in Australia.

These immigrant voyages, repeated from one generation to the next, form the heart of this richly layered memoir.

Shelley Davidow tells her family’s stories in vivid detail, recounting their experiences of love and loss alongside her own.

As she learns about the past, Shelley discovers that her aspirations and fears, her dreams and nightmares, echo those of her forebears as ancestral whisperings in the blood.

(UQP, 2016, RRP $29.95)

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25/7

The challenge is to rearrange a crossword which has been broken into 25 sections. One letter has been given to get you started. Work out which 3x3 square fits in with that letter and write in the letters.

You can also shade the black squares if you find it helpful.

After completing the first 3x3 area, work out which square joins on to it, and continue until you have made a complete crossword.

M R P A S U N

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Down 1. Around (5) 2. Establish (7) 3. Food (colloq) (4) 4. Not influenced by emotion (13) 5. Stiff (5) 6. Biased (colloq) (3-4) 7. Straddling (7) 12. Earth (7) 13. Caught fire (7) 14. Defensive wall (7) 15. String up (5) 17. Pace (5) 19. Dreadful (4)

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Fill the grid so every column, every row and 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

Good 13 Very Good 16 Excellent 19+

B O O T

C E E D W A E R R T G O E N N G I A E

B A L E R

A L S A M R O U S E I T I S M D C U B T I M E W I D E R A L E D N E S AW S S L I E C H I V E A U G E R R E N D S

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A D G I E S C O B I O O E N S V L I E S G A

7 lEttERS AMNESIA ASSUMED CAROUSE ELITISM PENDING SAILING SUICIDE SURNAME

1. Up to 2012, how many medals in total has Australia won at Summer Olympics?

2. In music, how many lines are there for notes to be written on?

3. Which motorcycle and car manufacturer had the first name Soichiro?

4. Who wrote the music for the film Jaws?

5. Which singer had a baby named Lourdes in 1996?

6. On a keyboard, there are six letters in a row from F to L. Alphabetically, which letter is missing from this six-letter series?

7. Approximately how many domestic breeds of dog are there – 180, 300 or 400?

8. Anatoli Karpov was world champion in what?

E R R E D

6 lEttERS BALSAM MEMBER QUASAR REGGAE

QUIZ

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5 lEttERS ALIGN AUGER BALED BALER CEDAR CEDED CHIVE CORGI CURES ERRED GENIE OBOES OCCUR OREAD QUEEN RENDS ROUSE SEERS SPOOR TILES TONGA

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1 468, 2 Five, 3 Honda, 4 John Williams, 5 Madonna, 6 I, 7 400, 8 Chess.

Fit the words into the grid to create a finished crossword

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GROWN, HALTER, INDULGE, JAVELINS, KNOCKOUTS.

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There is at least one nine-letter word.

No words starting with a capital are allowed, no plurals ending in s unless the word is also a verb, e.g. he burns with anger.

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Across: 1. Coincide 7. Alien 8. Responses 9. Ire 10. Alas 11.

Marred 13. Ill-considered 15. Lesion 16. Smut 18. Ivy 20.

Inanimate 21. Excel 22. Defeated.

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One-eyed 7. Astride 12. Topsoil 13. Ignited 14. Rampart 15.

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