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Pictures of Canberra 100 years ago from recent National Geographic Magazine

Canberra in the 50s, 60s and 70s (some things change and some stay the same)

Her Canberra A site by Amanda Whitley designed to connect Canberra women on line. Maybe you can tell your other half about this

ACTEWAGL Electricity Meter Box Locks available These cost $55 ($27.50 for pension card holders)

Student Forced to Quit Lake The CT reported on 20th March that the UC student, William Woodbridge, who has been living on a raft in Lake Ginninderra had been ordered to quit the lake by the 30th March. What he did was incredibly innovative, albeit it not very legal. However he added a bit of colour to our otherwise dull days cycling and walking around the lake. On 20th the webmeister went to the lake to take some pics and was surprised to meet William who paddled his dingy ashore in order to go to Uni lessons. He confirmed he has been served and is also on the ACT Housing list. It seems that he can not afford the prices for accommodation at the Uni. He seems like a nice young guy from Grafton and is studying industrial design. He indicated he was so in tune with his current mode of living, that going back to live in a house with/without others would be hard! Pictures As of 23rd April William's raft was removed from the lake as reported by the Easyriders.

Koorabri Homestead, Brindabella Valley Max Huntington reported on his experiences at Koorabri in the Brindabella Valley during the storms in 29-30th Nov 2011, Apparently they have a couple of unpowered small cottages near the Brindabella River for rent and these are often use by fishermen. Contact Peter and Fran Smith, 743 Brindabella Valley Rd, ACT, 2611. Tel (02) 6236 2122

ACT Roads This is a private site highlighting issues and problems with our roads. And there are plenty!

West Belconnen Health Co-op now runs three local medical clinics, with one recently opening in Page. One is at 20 Cartwright Street, Charnwood (Tel 6258 0355) and the other at 1/30 Totterdell St, Belconnen (Tel 6251 0005). Residents have to sign up to be members of the co-op for an annual fee of $25 to then access bulk billing services. Michael Pilbow is the co-ops' boards chair and has been surprised at the success so far. The first centre only opened in Feb 2010. Shed members might like to advise their experiences so far if any have used the co-op's services. Each centre advertises 4 doctors. The third centre opened in Feb 2012 at Unit 1, 23 Burkitt St, Page (Co-located at Ginninderra Gdns Village) (Tel 6162 0341) Membership of the health co-op runs from Jan - Dec and costs $33 for a single, $16.50 for concession with Family rates $66 and $33 concession

Tristar Medical Group have opened a medical clinic at Bruce. Its Unit 11, 100 Eastern Valley Way (co-loated with the Swimming Centre). They say they bulk bill. Open 7 days Weekdays 8AM-8PM, weekends 10AM-6PM (Tel 6253 5444)

Farmers Markets These operate at EPIC in Mitchell on Sat mornings 8-11AM. There is another Southside Farmers Market again at Woden Woden CIT Campus, Phillip 8.00-11.30AM

Hall 1:50000 Map Old Hall topographic map from 1960 covering Belconnen area. This is a scanned and stitched jpg file of 1Mbytes

Information on Charnwood and Crowajingalong homestead sites Most of this became available after our walk of 23 June 2011

Big Jim Murphy passed away on 26th May 2011 and was remembered at a large ceremony on 6th June Canberra Times Several Shed members knew him as he was a Belconnen local ABC Online. Canberra Times wine writer and former liquor retailer Chris Shanahan looks back on Jim Murphy's business career > Old Time Merchant

Managing Emergencies - Jim's Personal Checklist (Jim's docx version) The pantry checklist Here is a link to ACT Emergencies - A Residents Guide. Its a document produced by the ACT Emergency Services Agency. Its 16 pages and 2.8MB so it might be best to right click on it and select download

MyWay SmartCard ticketing System for ACTION Buses Access to the MyWay ACTION bus card. Seniors also get a combined Seniors/MyWay Card

Sharps Hotline 132281 The City Rangers remove needles and syringes found on unleased land or public places on a 24 hour basis. Its important that you do nor handle needles, syringes or the yellow disposable containers. Any of these may be contaminated with blood infected with hepatitis C which can survive outside the body for several months

Lifeline Bookfairs Lifeline ACT always needs people to assist with their counselling service which is supported by excellent bookfairs. If you wish to donate books, DVDs, etc or assist with the bookfairs or at their warehouse, details are on this site. Next bookfair at EPIC on Fri-Sun 21st-23rd Sep 2012 starting at 10AM finishing at 6PM Fri, 5PM Sat and 4PM Sun. There is also the Winter Southside Bookfair on Sat-Sun 23-24th June 9-4PM. See Lifeline's Facebook page

Second hand Booksales Sydney and ACT/NSW

Sing Australia Blokes They were established to broaden the opportunities for men to sing. Like all Sing Aust groups, there are no auditions, the only prerequisite is the love of singing. The group has a membership of around 80. The blokes perform regularly at charity, community events and those of national significance. They welcome blokes from all walks of life. Sing Australia was started by Colin Slater some 13 years ago and has grown into a nationwide organisation with some 150 different singing groups and some 5,000 members. The Blokes group is the only local men only group

Amateur radio in the ACT. See the WIA ACT Division site

Heraldry & Genealogy Society of the ACT The Society's monthly meetings will now be held at Cook Community Hub Hall on Templeton Street Cook

Computer Items Cheap at the local Computer Markets. If you want more RAM (memory), a new HDD (Hard drive) or DVD disks then this is the place. You can get new systems, notebooks or monitors. Probably EPIC is the best for us northerners with good parking. Note its $3 entry fee

Canberra History Web is a site dedicated to historians but concentrating on unusual items of history including convicts who received tickets of leave in the Queanbeyan and Bungendore areas

Dave Reids Site on the ACT. He is an amateur historian exploring the ACT regions history and heritage. His web log is a record of places he found and visited, things he knows of and has researched. Very useful data on Canberra's history including maps

Early Canberra - History Web Site. An interesting site undertaken by Ann Gugler to provide information on Canberra's development

Hidden Canberra. Another site by Ann Gugler but concentrating on the early construction camps, history of some of the early settlers, etc

Interesting short history of Gungahlin by the Canberra Archaeological Society Mar 2010. This report gives a bit more information about the heritage places in the Gungahlin Treasures booklet released last year. Also see the Society's main site

Paperworld This company offers to provide an original newspaper or magazine for a range of Australian papers and magazine titles from 1903 to the current times. Not a bad idea as a special present to someone you know. Thanks to Peter Tilley

Australian Newspaper Articles from the National Library You can find an article in from Australian Newspapers from 1803 to 1954 by using the NLA facility. There is also the Trove project associated with the digitisation program. Trove is a new discovery experience focused on Australia and Australians. It supplements what search engines provide. If you are researching in the fields of the social sciences, literature, local or family history, or need inspiration for your school assignment, then this is the tool might help

Project Gutenberg Australia The ebooks on this site are in the public domain in Australia (not subject to copyright in Australia) and may be read and downloaded without charge. Project Gutenberg (PG) is also involved in digitisng and proff reading of books being brought into the public e book domain. Refer to Distributed proofreaders where you can register to proof read books being digitised and put into to Gutenberg. You can also browse US Project Gutenburg

ANZAC Centenary Between 2014 and 2018 Australia will commemorate the Anzac Centenary, marking 100 years since our involvement in the First World War. View their site to see things that are proposed

Australian Romance Readers Association Found their card at Lifeline Bookfair. Nice site with some interesting guest blogers

Temora Aviation Museum is worth a visit but especially on their weekend open days. Check out their flying displays on their site

"Rugged Beyond Imagination" and "High Stakes" Matthew Higgins book and short film

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