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my VI L LAGE news october ’20 LONDON GIRLS Page 7 STUDENTS' FUTURE ALL STITCHED UP PUT IN ON THE TAB Albion's newest MASTERPLAN Page 17 ASCOT | HAMILTON | HENDRA | WOOLOOWIN | CLAYFIELD | KALINGA | EAGLE FARM | ALBION Pictured: ElizabethSeccombe Photo By: St Rita's College news V comment I came to know the area well Welcome to the first years later when it became popular with the city’s journalists, being close to The Courier-Mail and edition of your local paper Telegraph offices at Bowen Hills and the Sunday Sun and Daily Sun office KALINGA CAL in Fortitude Valley in the days when PARK O L L my colleagues were numbered in O MY VILLAGE NEWS V their hundreds. MIKE O’CONNOR E Friday night parties were held Kalinga TO BRISBANE Airport D It is really important to us that This is why we are excited to [email protected] Link (To R ll road IAL AIRPORT in flats on the winding backstreets ) ER RT T A the residents, business owners EAST-WES AI be launching your edition of RPORT DRIVE of Hamilton, apartments not yet MELROSE DAVID HINCHLIFFE and their staff know that My My Village News. PARK having been invented and the Fond memories of a Artist, Bowen Hills JUNCTION RD Village News is only interested We will be coming out in the SKYGATE Hamilton, Albion and Breakfast C l a y fi e l d S DFO favourite old haunt O BRISBANE in you and your community. middle of each month and we will U “I’m absolutely delighted that My T Creek hotels enjoyed our JUNCTION RD H E RALE C WAY E For over 12 years we have worked personally hand deliver your local T P My earliest memories of My D R E N N Village News has gone from strength enthusiastic patronage. O S C GOLF hard to produce a local paper for K R NUDGEE RD paper to all the homes, apartments Village News’ new circulation CENTRAL C O I S to strength at a time when we need D BNE It was from the old International GERLER RD S W the suburbs on the other side the and businesses in the suburbs area of Ascot-Hamilton-Clayfield A Y good local reporting more than Hendra G Airport at Eagle Farm that I left D A Breakfast Creek. We take pride that A T of Ascot, Hamilton, Clayfield, are of the Eagle Farm racecourse O E R W E LONDON RD ever! When other newspapers and on my first trip overseas back in T A A Y we have done a good job representing where my grandmother G Hendra, Wooloowin, Kalinga, ZILLMAN RD M BONNEY AVE D N O the mid-Seventies and to which I A T magazines are closing, My Village S O the interests of locals, telling their Albion and parts of Eagle Farm. would take me as a child. R W A News is gaining in readership and returned a year later, flat broke but Wooloowin Y RACEVIEW stories, supporting not-for-profits, This community has recently An avid punter, Nana would settle ALEXANDRA RD interest. Our community is stronger charities, and service clubs. Giving a lost some well-established local in a shady spot with our home-made with an impressive sun tan. ST RITA’S I eventually moved into a share COLLEGE because of it.” voice to the community. newspapers and we aim to more sandwiches and send me across to the It is your turn and as you can see by house in Hendra, the closest I ever ORIEL RD than fill the void. totalisator window to place her bets. KITCHENER RD DOOMBEN JIM SOORLEY this edition we have been welcomed got to Ascot, and was a late night RACECOURSE We welcome local advertising From a very young age I knew the EAGLE FARM ex Lord Mayor, New Farm with open arms. We are not surprised difference between doubles and regular at a hamburger shop at RACECOURSE and we invite you to send us your ST MARGARET’S ORIEL PARK ANGLICAN but very pleased. story ideas. quinellas, could read a form guide, the top of Racecourse Road on GIRLS SCHOOL LANCASTER RD “My Village News is part of The strength of any community is rattle off the names of the leading my way home from an evening of TAFE QLD the fabric of our New Farm- Albion BARTLEY’S HILL EAGLE FARM within its village and that is where we jockeys and had the Saturday morning conviviality at the old Journalists’ LOOKOUT ASCOT STATE Ascot CAMPUS CROSBY RD SCHOOL Teneriffe-Newstead community. It’s NUDGEE RD Call us on 32544965 or Eagle Farm get our name. task of marking the scratchings Club at Bowen Hills. CROSBY S PARK OU produced by locals for locals and THE CULLEN AVE E All of the key staff at My Village News for advertising email Renee at It remains one of my favourite D RN C for that day’s races as they were A ROSS WAY (Toll road) O WINDERMERE RD R its coverage of local news, events [email protected] currently or have previously lived and broadcast over the massive, wood- parts of the city and one of which I E T A G and personalities make it essential worked in this community and our or for editorial email Elle at D panelled valve radio that dominated hope My Village News will become N ALLEN ST A Hamilton S RACECOURSE ROAD ALBION PARK [email protected] reading.” families have attended local schools. her lounge room. an integral part. 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My Village News gets to V E your your local target audience, which [email protected] is fundamental to any business that [email protected] wants to succeed and also to expand PO BOX 2551 TRUSTED and grow.” myvillagenewsbris voice New Farm Q, 4005 After more than 13 years of being the trusted voice VINCE & MARIA ANELLO WE ARE RELOCATING SOON of the New Farm - Teneriffe - Newstead area, Owners, New Farm Deli (near Woolies) My Village News is bringing our passion for local “We love My Village News because TO HAMILTON HARBOUR news, supporting businesses, and connecting the it’s published by locals for locals ü Larger premises ü Easier access ü Parking available community to Ascot, Hamilton, Clayfield, Hendra, and keeps us updated on happenings in our community. It’s also popular Wooloowin, Kalinga, Eagle Farm, and Albion. with our customers for its coverage of local personalities and business and lifestyle issues while being very supportive of our neighbourhood.” Ph: 3254 4965 Dog Grooming Let us pamper your pooch [email protected] Focused advice, solutions and results [email protected] www.hundtlaw.com.au 07 3630 2628 yapyaps.com.au myvillagenews.com.au october ’20 | MY VI L LAGE NEWS ASCOT 3 V news news V too narrow compared with the Character house childcare New bridge newly completed Lores Bonney Riverwalk along Kingsford Smith Drive, and created a bottleneck on centre plans dashed necessary the cycling and pedestrian network. EAGLE JUNCTION NOW OPEN Cr McLachlan said more than A proposed childcare centre Brisbane City Plan 2014.” By Ellen-Maree Elliot 600,000 people had used the that would include demolition The council advised the applicants Riverwalk, which runs along Kingsford of a character house in Clayfield Smith Drive, since it opened. they were now required to start public Consultation on Brisbane City Council’s designed by a prominent turn- notification for the application, or Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said proposed green bridge over Breakfast of-the-century architect is not they could withdraw the application. 2200 people had their say on the Creek from Kingsford Smith Drive supported by Brisbane City Council. The applicant asked the council design and proposed landing points to Newstead Park has consistently Brisbane City Council has written to stop the assessment period for of the planned Breakfast Creek and Do your raised one point of confusion. to the applicant that 20 business Kangaroo Point green bridges. Hamilton Ward Councillor David it had completed days, as they He said the responses had confirmed McLachlan said residents had regularly an initial review of are entitled to Brisbane City Council was on the The proposal relies on asked why there was a need for a new their development under the rules, right track, and there would now be the partial demolition of the bridge when there was already a bridge application for a to recommence detailed analysis of the consultation. tastebuds existing dwelling, which is across the creek with pedestrian access. 58-place childcare on November 4. Cr Schrinner said the council centre at 46 in the Traditional building It comes after He said they wanted to know why the expected the final outcomes of the Bayview Tce, in character overlay. residents rallied existing bridge could not be upgraded. consultation sessions by November, Clayfield, and it was against the “And I completely understand when they would also shortlist “not supported”.