School is in for Brooklyn
School bells are ready to ring, and playgrounds are soon to be filled as a new year of children eagerly await to start Kindergarten for the first time across the country. One of those children is Brooklyn Kershaw, who will be attending Regentville Public School. Brooklyn is excited about her new journey ahead and there’s […]
Education
Reading is a fundamental skill that involves interpreting and comprehending written words. At school, the main focus for children is to learn to read, then as children get older, the focus shifts on reading to learn. Amongst all this learning, sometimes the love of reading gets sidelined, or perhaps the spark of joy fails to […]
Paws a While
Our Kitten Adoption Program enables us to find homes for stray and unwanted kittens. Each kitten has a health check by a veterinarian to ensure they are healthy. They have had their first vaccination, been desexed, microchipped and have a product called Advocate applied, which controls fleas, intestinal worms and heartworm. We also worm them […]
Health Matters
Headache is the most common cause of neurological consultation in clinical practice for doctors, and many of my patients come because they are afflicted by them. Most people will suffer from what we call a primary headache, that is, headache not the result of another medical condition such as a tumour or aneurism, etc. However, […]
Parents Corner
We set personal goals and work goals. We watch lifestyle shows on the television or scan social media to get ideas about how we want to make changes to our home and garden. We make holiday plans. How often do we take stock of what is happening within our family? What is going well? What […]
Here Comes Santa in a Fire Truck
Santa will be trading in his sleigh and reindeers for a fire truck this month, with the Regentville Rural Fire Brigade Santa Run visiting the local community to share some festive spirit. Pending the operational requirements of the brigade and their crew, the Regentville RFB Santa Run will visit the local suburbs of Glenmore Park, […]
Supper with Spirit a Success!
Last month the District Gazette hosted their first ever fundraising event, Supper With Spirit, raising money for Lung Foundation Australia. Guests enjoyed an evening of delight as Ghost Whisperer Suzie used her spiritual gift of psychic mediumship to relay messages to loved ones. It was an emotional night full of laughing, crying and of course, […]
Renee is Racing to the Top
Glenmore Park’s Renee Walsh is a force to be reckoned with on the racetrack, with the local mum currently on top of the leader board in the Improved Production Class of the New South Wales Road Racing Championships. Renee, who races a 1999 Nissan Pulsar N15 SSS, has amazingly only been racing cars for two […]
Thank You Glenmore Park: John and Karen Lavender to Retire
After 23 years of Ministry at Glenmore Park Anglican Church, Karen and I, on January 31st, 2020 will be retiring. It was a Friday morning, back in December 1996 that our family first arrived at our new Glenmore Park home. On the same block, construction had begun on our new church building. In the meantime, […]
Community Sensory and Vegetable Garden Proposed
A proposal is currently being investigated to develop a community sensory and vegetable garden in Glenmore Park. Uniting, who are working in partnership with the National Disability Insurance Scheme under the Information Linkages and Capacity Building framework, have formed the Glenmore Park Project Community Inclusion Steering Committee to look at this. The establishment of the […]