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EMU PLAINS
LLANDILO
PENRITH
Three businesses
win top awards
Airing of the quilts to
help cancer patients
WITH winter weather
right around the corner
what an appropriate time for
the Caring Hearts Community
Quilters to hold their sixth
Airing of the Quilts.
With support from other
community groups including
the Nepean District Historical
Society, the festival will be
held at the Arms of Australia
Inn Museum at Emu Plains
this weekend.
For more than 10 years the
quilters group has tried to
patch the lives back of people
in difficult times.
After the October bushfires
in the Blue Mountains left
hundreds
without
their
homes and possessions, the
quilters banded together
with friends and many helpers to make quilts for those
who had lost everything.
Within five weeks of the
fires, 193 quilts were given
away.
In the past 10 years the
group has made more than
1500 quilts, which have gone
to hospitals for palliative care
The Airing of the Quilts.
and neonatal wards, Barnardos, Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital, women’s and
youth refuges and other people in need.
There will be a special display of vintage quilts from
the 1930s and ‘40s on loan
from Kaye and Bruce Brown’s
private collection, gift stalls,
book stalls, trading table,
Devonshire teas, a quilt raffle
– with proceeds going to
Breast Cancer Australia – and
sausage sizzle.
In the case of inclement
weather the airing will not be
held.
The event will be from 10am4pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Cost $5. Details: 4735 2058
CRANEBROOK
Youth engage in mural street art
KEEPING youths on the
streets was the plan of
the Art in a Can program, in
the sense that adolescents
would be inspired by their
community to create a mural.
The 18 hours of design and
skill development workshops
led by the Blue Mountains
Street Art Collaborative, with
the support of Fusion Western Sydney, culminated in
artworks created by the
young people on removable
mural boards.
Throughout the six weeks
youths went on excursions to
urban street art sites and
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discovered the significance
of other communities around
the area.
Fusion Youth Services
manager Dot Knox said she
hoped the young people involved appreciated and were
inspired by mural street art.
“I hoped they saw it as a
legitimate form of creative
expression and gained a better understanding of the significance of place-making in
community,” she said.
All murals will be hung at
the Fusion Western Sydney
Youth and Community Centre
at Cranebrook.
PENRITH PRESS, Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Betty Wong with Llandilo Public School students Marco Yelavich, Rosabelle Galea and Bobo
Deng at the presentation in her honour.
Picture: PETER KELLY
Heartfelt thanks to a fine advocate
Lauren Tesolin
THE Llandilo community has honoured
one of its long-time residents for her
contributions to the Chinese community.
Betty Wong, 60, moved to Llandilo in 1981
and has always tried to help Chinese people
assimilate in the Penrith area.
Mrs Wong was honoured for her work with
a presentation by Llandilo Public School students and the wider community at a traditional Chinese dance and lunch at Llandilo
Association Hall.
She also received a plaque of appreciation
for her work.
“They told me it was for my generous work
in the community but I just see it as making
friends,” she said.
“I have tried to promote harmony and development with Chinese people in the community by bringing them together.”
Mrs Wong’s charitable efforts extend from
being the Chinese spokeswoman for the
Western Growers Association for more than
10 years to sharing information and inviting
Chinese locals to engage in activities around
the area.
Mrs Wong said she just liked helping others when and where she could.
“I like to call people to see how they are
going, encourage people to take up work in
the area and get people involved in social
groups,” she said.
Advocating a healthy lifestyle has also
been at the top of Mrs Wong’s long list of
community achievements.
She has also pushed for free information
sessions on various chronic illnesses and
for providing women with health workshops,physical activity and cooking demonstrations.
She has also promoted English lessons,
supported computer classes and provided
transport services in isolated areas.
WORKS NEAR YOU — WHAT YOUR COUNCIL IS DOING
PENRITH COUNCIL
Roadworks as part of
the annual road resheeting program:
Reserve Rd, Claremont
Meadows, between Great
Western Highway and Putland St (night work)
Trinity Dr, Cambridge Gardens, between Carlyle Cres
and Huntington Pde
Shared path construction work as part of the
River Cities program:
Great Western Highway,
Kingswood, between Parker
St and Bringelly Rd
THREE Penrith businesses have won Australian
Small
Business
Champion Awards.
They are:
■ Esteem Hair Beauty Spa,
Champion Hairdressing
■ Coreen Avenue Veterinary
Clinic and Western Sydney
Cat Hospital, Champion Pet
Services
■ Poles Patisserie, Champion
Bakery/Cake Store.
For Esteem (formerly Esteem Hair and Beauty), it followed their award for best
marketing at the 2014 Australian Hair Industry Awards.
Owner Martin Lazare said
the salon had benefited from
changing its brand and look.
“It’s been a pretty big 12
months for us because we’ve
introduced the spa part of the
business, and even changing
the name to just ‘Esteem’
being the hero I think has
made a difference,” he said.
WARRAGAMBA
Exhibition on
impact of water
A NEW exhibition has
opened at the Warragamba Dam Visitor Centre
looking at the impact of water
on the daily lives of millions of
people around the world.
State Primary Industries
Minister Katrina Hodgkinson
said the Water in the World
exhibition would help raise
awareness of the important
work being done by WaterAid, an international organisation
focused
on
transforming lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the
world’s poorest communities.
The exhibition will run until
October.
The centre is open 10am-4pm
daily (except Good Friday and
Christmas Day). Free entry.
Details: sca.nsw.gov.au
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