With thousands of motorcycling enthusiasts from around Australia converging on Strathalbyn on October 27 to celebrate Kenny Blake's 73rd birthday – 37 years after being killed racing his 500cc motorbike – it is obvious he was special. Indeed, he was, an 11-time Australian champion, a record breaker, and they say an all-round great bloke brought up in Strathalbyn. So good … [Read more...] about They still love Kenny to bits
Message in a plastic bottle
There was a touch of irony when Anne Newland-Tugwell saw the message thank you on the empty plastic container, a marketing ploy with profit from these bottles of water going towards ending global poverty. It was Anne who was responsible for saving the world from billions of these empty plastic horrors being dumped on our roadsides, and that was just across South Australia. … [Read more...] about Message in a plastic bottle
Working to create an opportunity we all deserve
During precious quiet moments Jane French engulfs herself in an intriguing book Addicted? by Matt Noffs, a relative of the late Theodore Delwin “Ted” Noffs (1926-95), a Methodist minister who founded the remarkable Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Sydney. As co-founder of the Street Universities and CEO of Noffs Foundation, Australia's largest drug and alcohol treatment … [Read more...] about Working to create an opportunity we all deserve