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Community News Community T Publisher: Diana Paton | 0408 011 193 Katie Geering, co-head of the Ophthalmology department at the Advertising email: [email protected] Westmead Children’s Hospital said the new equipment had recently been Editorial: [email protected] used on a four-year-old boy to give doctors valuable information about the cause for his vision loss and subsequent treatment. “His family were so thankful that we had this new piece of equipment at the hospital,“ she said. Rotarians and Rotary Districts around Australia and India supported the fundraising push by Hills Kellyville which became a Global Grant project of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. DIANA PATON KAREN TAYLOR BEV JORDAN 0408 011 193 0499 040 726 0451 519 088 Publisher Advertising Journalist IVOR JONES CARMEL LIDDELL KAI CHING LEONG Contributor Contributor 0459 303 600 Rotary Club of the Hills-Kellyville Accounts President Fran Broadbent with Katie Geering. (From Left to right) Hills Mayor Michelle Byrne, David Elliott MP and Minister for Veteran Affairs, Harrison Maxwell, Austin Breakwell, and Michael Theodoridis from the Castle Hill RSL Youth Wind Orchestra, Alex Hawke MP Federal Member for Mitchell and Don Tait and David Hand from the organising committee. Castle Hill RSL sub-Branch has contributed $15,000 and The Hills Shire Council has donated $7,500, plus in-kind support to make sure the day is a success. “Remembrance Day is a significant event, and it’s important to remember the sacrifices made by our Hills Shire residents and those who contributed to the war efforts during World War I,” Mayor of The Hills Shire, Dr Michelle Byrne said. “That’s why Council is committed to making sure this Photo by Bev Jordan Commemorate the event is one that our community and its veterans can be proud of, while also helping to educate and engage the wider community about the Armistice Centenary story,” she said. Centenary of Armistice President of the Centenary of ANZAC committee, retired Tchaikovsky’s Colonel Don Tait OAM said that the Centenary of Armistice world-renowned 1812 at Bella Vista Farm Park commemorations allow our community to remember the loss of so many Australians, to empathise with those who Overture will echo through Bella Vista Farm Park on Sunday, November 11 have been injured by war and to remember the end to WWI. to mark the Centenary of Armistice. “Remembrance Day means many things to me, but importantly it ended a war so that Australian Army, Navy and he Overture will be played by the Castle Hill RSL Youth Orchestra and be accompanied Air Force personnel could return home and restart their lives by the Royal Australian Army “big guns”. with their families,” Mr Tait said. T Other activities on the day will include performances from the Castle Hill RSL Pipe “For me personally, I use the day to remember the Band and the RNSW Lancers Band. Federal Member for Mitchell, the Hon. Alex Hawke MP, sacrifices that so many service personnel made in WWI and, said today we know 11 November as Remembrance Day, but its origins started 100 years ago in particular, the 571 men from the Hills District who gave when the Armistice ending the fighting during the First World War was signed. their lives so that we could live normal lives in this great “The Australian Government through the Armistice Centenary Grants Program has nation of ours. provided $50,000 to each federal electorate across Australia to ensure the memory of those “This Armistice Finale event featuring the 1812 Overture who gave so much in defence of our values and freedom live on. We owe it to those who offers a great evening out for families and for them to went before to stop, remember and say thank you for another 100 years,” Mr Hawke said. experience an exciting and fitting program that remembers “The Centenary Finale event has been made possible through the Armistice Centenary all Australians who have sacrificed so much for us,” he added. Grant of $6,928 to mark the centenary of the Armistice in a locally significant way. I commend the work of the Mitchell Centenary of Armistice Committee, led by David Hand with the Gates open at 4.30pm. Attendees can bring a rug and a assistance of Colonel Don Tait OAM, for their time and commitment in planning such a picnic. Food and coffee will also be available. While the event momentous event for the community to remember, reflect and honour those who gave the is free, attendees are asked to book via Eventbrite to give an ultimate sacrifice for our nation,” he added. idea of numbers. 2 Hills to Hawkesbury Living | 26 October 2018 Read online: www.hillstohawkesbury.com.au June 6 2014:H-H 2011 5/06/2014 11:15 PM Page 7 June 6 2014:H-H 2011 5/06/2014 11:15 PM Page 7 You may be surprised to learn, for instance, that research shows beet greens may: You may be surprised to learn, for instance, that research • Help ward off osteoporosis by boosting bone strength shows beet greens may: News Community •• Help Fight ward Alzheimer's off osteoporosis disease by boosting bone strength •• Fight Strengthen Alzheimer's your immunedisease system by stimulating the REMEMBRANCEproduction of antibodies and white blood cells DAY • Strengthen your immune system by stimulating the If you'veproduction never of tried antibodies beet greens and white before, blood don't cells let them intimidateCOMMEMORATION you. They can be added raw toSERVICES vegetable juice If you've never tried beet greens before, don't let them or sautéed lightly right along with other greens like intimidate you. They can be added raw to vegetable juice spinachThe Hills and District Swiss Remembrancechard. Day Commemoration or Servicessautéed willlightly be held right on alongSunday with 11th otherNovember, greens at 11AM like & spinachTry This and Healing Swiss Recipe chard. for Russian Beet Soup (Borscht) 5PM at the Galston Cenotaph, located next to the History TryThere This are Healing many Recipeways to for enjoy Russian beets: Beet Soup (Borscht) Cottage on Galston Road. There• Grate are many them waysraw over to enjoy salads beets: • Add them to your fresh vegetable juice • Gratet would thembe appreciated raw over if those salads attending the 11AM service could be seated •• Addby Lightly 10.30AM. them steam Theto your service them fresh this year vegetable has a greater juice significance than normal, as th I•• Lightlywe Marinate will commemorate steam them them with the 100lemon Anniversary juice, herbs,of the signing and of olive the Armistice oil to bring World War 1 hostilities to a close. John Graham, a local bagpiper, will For• Marinate an even morethem intense with lemon flavor, juice, try Borscht, herbs, and or beet olive soup, oil whichplay a is lament a traditional at an appropriate Russian point indish. the proceedings This particular at the 11AM recipe service, For an even more intense flavor, try Borscht, or beet soup, below,and a tune from called Dirt “The Doctor, Battle’s O’er”also at includes 5.00PM at the homemade Cenotaph. Pipers broth, the which is a traditional Russian dish. This particular recipe makingworld over it particularly will acknowledge nourishing the 100th Anniversary and healing. by playing “The Battle’s below,O’er” fromas close Dirt to the Doctor, time of the also signing includes of the Armistice homemade as possible, broth, which makingwas 5.00AM it particularly local European nourishing time. and healing. It would be great to see a good attendance at both these services to acknowledge the tremendous debt we owe to those who have served in the Armed Forces of our country, many of whom made the supreme sacrifice. 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