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Job: c72825 Town Crier June17 JuneCover2017v2.p1.pdf Date: 29-05-2017 14:10:02 P.O. Box 235, Whittlesea, Vic. 3757 Telephone 8401 3330 • Registered by Australia Post, Publication No. VBH 8051 Telephone/Fax 9716 2267 Website: www.towncrierwhittlesea.wordpress.com JUNE 2017 VOLUME 319 Job: c72825 Town Crier June17 727xx Town Crier June17.p2.pdf Date: 29-05-2017 14:10:02 Job: c72825 Town Crier June17 JuneInsidePages.p1.pdf Date: 29-05-2017 14:10:02 Town Crier June 2017 Editor:- Betty Harvey 8401 3330 FOR COPY 8401 3330 Advertising/Accounts:- Sue Ewert Email: [email protected] 9716 2267 FOR ADVERTISING Production Assistant/Reporter:- Ph/Fax:- 9716 2267 Karen Mace Email:[email protected] Invoices:- Leila Leaford P.O. 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Following on from our initial community day of storytelling and photo collecting in 2015 and our recent expression of interest for more stories, we would 2-3/81 Church Street Whittlesea now like to invite people interested in history, writing, photography, layout, publishing and more who can help to put the book together. Ph: 9716 0278 Please join us at 2pm on Sunday 9th July at the Specialist Radiologist on site for all your joint injections Whittlesea Community Activity Centre. 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KEEP YOUR EYES Winter has arrived, and for me, I find the best way to think of it is, ‘it is the only way back to summer, and some warmer weather’, for all of PEELED FOR A us with arthritis that is affected by the cold. CITY OF WHITTLESEA For those who will be travelling over the long weekend, drive carefully and take regular breaks. Enjoy your time away and come home safely HOUSEHOLD SURVEY and refreshed. One of our best features here in the City of Whittlesea is our diverse Continuing with some Unusual Australian Facts from community. http://www.convictcreations.com/culture/facts.htm are ~ Being such a rapidly growing part of Melbourne, it’s really important * Independence for WA- In April 1933, 68 per cent of West that we stay up to date with the characteristics and views of our Australians voted in favour of seceding from the Commonwealth of residents and communities, to ensure we have the information we Australia. However, they needed permission from the British Parliament need to plan for the future. before they could officially become a new country. Meanwhile, Australia’s Federal Parliament was arguing that Britain should not One way that we can stay up to date is by conducting our Household interfere in Australian politics. The end result was that Britain never Survey. made a decision. Consequently, Western Australian remained part of We are preparing to undertake our 2017 Household Survey of the Commonwealth. residencies across the municipality. This year’s survey will be * In 1954, Bob Hawke was immortalised by the Guinness Book of distributed to approximately 5,500 households across the City of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Bob later became Whittlesea. the Prime Minister of Australia. *Sir John Robertson, five times premier of New South Wales, was Council has commissioned Metropolis Research