THE TORCH and a TOWN I LOVE SO WELL 03/05/00

Subj: the torch and a town I love so well
Date: Tue Sep 5 07:31:46 EDT 2000

Now, it's really getting exciting - Mike & Kerry and Karen live in Hurstville and it is where our General Church society is located. I am so happy and proud.

Torch Schedule - Tuesday, September 12: Kurnell to Parramatta 4.35am Kurnell; 5.05 Cronulla; 6.53 >>>>>>> HURSTVILLE <<<<<<<; 9.01 Lakemba; 9.59 Condell Park; 10.50 Milperra; 13.26 Liverpool lunch celebration; 15.01 Bonnyrigg; 16.09 Fairfield; 17.56 Merrylands; 18.57 Parramatta.Lunch celebration: Woodward Park, cnr Hume Highway & Hoxton Park Road, Liverpool; Evening celebration: Parramatta Regional Park Macquarie Street entrance), Parramatta, and includes a 1,000-piece choir singing in 20 languages in celebration of the regions cultural diversity as well as local and international cultural dance troupes.

Wednesday, September 13: Westmead to Gladesville 4.35am Westmead; 6.57 Mt Druitt; 8.50 Blacktown; 11.06 Castle Hill; 12.29 Pennant Hills lunch celebration; 13.53 Wahroonga; 15.05 Gordon; 15.58 Macquarie University; 16.45 Epping; 17.53 Ryde; 18.21 Hunters Hill; 18.57 Gladesville. Lunch celebration: Pennant Hills Park, Brittania & Cecil Avenues, Pennant Hills. Hornsby will showcase its "Bushland Shire" in an all day festival. The torch will enter the park under a natural eucalypt archway housing real koalas, the Bushland mascot, from Koala Park. Performers will include the locally based marching band, the Golden Kangaroos, 200 children singing the national anthem, champion Australian bush poet Milton Taylor, bush band Reel Matilda and indigenous performer Christine Anu. Evening celebration: Bedlam Bay Park, Hunters Hill. The Hunter's Hill celebration will start at 4pm with a number of performances from local schools, including an opening by the Ryde Schools Spectacular and community performance group. It will end about 8pm with a fireworks display from a barge moored in Bedlam Bay.
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Subj: I stand (run?) corrected
Date: Wed Sep 6 22:43:14 EDT 2000
I jumped the gun. The torch will be in Hurstville - home of the Clanlocks and sometimes Kay Lockhart - NEXT Tuesday. Oops.


reposted in sweet memory of its author, KATHARINE REYNOLDS LOCKHART, by her scribe/daughter, Elsa Lockhart Murphy aka Deev, in celebration of the 05/14 centenary of Nan's birth