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AUSSIE HONOURS FOR DUO
JUNE 21 2013 ISSUE 1108
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THE HEARTBEAT OF PENRITH
COPS INJURED A female police offic er was struck by the wife of a man who had just been arrested and another officer was injured in an ugly incident in Penrith last Saturday night. Just before midnight, Police were called to a brawl near the State Government Offic e Building, across from Penrith Station. The drama escalated, and the two officers were hurt. Two people have been charged.
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With marbles he lost four decades ago, Terry Rastall from Kingswood has emerged as the Australian Marbles Championship winner. Photo: Melinda Jane.
Marble marvel
VITAL LINK Employment boom ahead for local area PAGE 5
Feel-good story of the week has 40 years of history
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NATHAN TAYLOR
he story of a sewing machine repairman from Kingswood winning the Australian Marbles Championship title would be unique enough. But when you delve into 61-year-old Terry Rastall’s story in relation to how he got to that moment, it becomes an even more remarkable tale with some four decades of history attached. It all began a few weeks ago when Mr Rastall received a call from a close friend who works at a fabric store in Leichhardt. “A customer went into the store to pick up some
fabric and started talking to my friend who works there,” Mr Rastall told the Weekender. “The customer needed her sewing machine fi xed, so my friend recommended that I fi x it.” When Mr Rastall heard the address of the customer who needed her sewing machine repaired, it sounded very familiar to him but he wasn’t sure why. “I talked to my wife and told her the address I had to go to in Haberfield, and my wife said that was my old place where I grew up,” he said. “I hadn’t lived at that house since 1975 when I was 24. So I phoned up the lady and said ‘have you got a frangipani tree out the front of your house and a cumquat tree down the back?’ She
replied ‘yes’, and I said ‘that’s my old bloody house, I’ll be picking that sewing machine up no problems at all’.” With memories flooding back, Mr Rastall remembered his glorious marble collection as a kid and the horrifying day he loaned all 500 of them to his younger brother to take to school and play with. One day back in 1973, a then 21-year-old Mr Rastall discovered that his brother lost nearly half of his marble collection at school, but it didn’t end there, as he explained to the woman on the phone.
EMUS STRUGGLE Union side still chasing first victory PAGE 79
Story Continues Page Eight
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