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DATE & TIME: Tuesday 18th November, 5.30pm – 8.30pm
LOCATION: South of Perth Yacht Club ‐ Coffee Point, Applecross (Cnr Duncraig and Canning Beach Roads)
WINERIES: Large range of top wines available such as Rare Earth, Sandalford, Flying Fish and Alkoomi.
COST: $10 per ticket, all tickets will be exchanged for a $15 winecow.com.au voucher on arrival
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The Town of Bassendean is inviting the whole community to join them at their first fun filled carbon offset event called ‘Planet Earth Festival.’

DATE & TIME: Saturday 6th December 2008 from 4.00pm – 9.00pm and Sunday 7th December from 11.00am – 3.00pm.

LOCATION: The event will take place in the Bassendean Town Centre with Old Perth Road being closed off for the festival.

ENTERTAINMENT: Live bands will entertain crowds over the two-day festival. Other entertainment will include a street parade on the Sunday involving local school children, as well as street performers and buskers. Delightful delicacies from local food vendors will be there to tempt the taste buds and amusement rides to keep the adults and the kids on their toes.

Balloon artists and Old MacDonald’s farm will be ready to impress and for the first time ever, a Freestyle BMX Competition will take place over the two days of the festival, with a ghetto style theme and an attractive amount of prize money up for grabs.

ACCESS: Ten-minute drive from the city, Ashfield train station is nearby.

COST: FREE

For more information: Log on to www.bassendean.wa.gov.au or contact Leisure Services on 9377 8000.

A new centre, the first of it’s kind in Western Australia, set up to tackle a chronic shortage of therapists trained to help children with autism and developmental disorders will open it’s doors to the public on Saturday 29th November 2008.

The independent centre, known as the Learning Education and Research Network (L.E.A.R.N.), aims to ensure children suspected of having autism or developmental delays are diagnosed and receive intensive treatment as early as possible.

Families, carers and health professionals all welcome!

DATE & TIME: Saturday 29th November, 11.00am – 2.00pm

LOCATION: L.E.A.R.N. – 217 Canning Highway, East Fremantle

WHAT/WHO: L.E.A.R.N. Senior Clinical Psychologist, Darin Cairns and the centre’s Client Services Coordinator, Mandy Mason will be available for consultations to discuss the latest developments in autism early intervention and the L.E.A.R.N. Curriculum. Face painting, sausage sizzle, kids entertainment.

COST: FREE

For further information please visit http://www.learnaustralia.org/

After an amazing 16 days the olympics are over. It was an action packed Olympics this year from Stephanie Rices first gold medal in the pool to Matthew Mitcham’s gold in the diving. It is fair to say that in one of the toughest olympics in a long time, our Aussie athletes did us all proud finishing 6th in the medal tally with a total of 46 medals including 14 gold, 15 silver, and 17 bronze.

There were some amazing moments and some surprizing wins for Australia including: Steven Hooker’s Gold in the Pole Vault, Sally McLellan’s Silver in the hurdles, Jared Tallent’s Silver and Bronze in the 50k and 20k Walk. Anna Meares Silver in the cycling and of course Stephanie Rice in the pool.

Congratulations to all of our Athletes who put in 100% in everything that they did, you’re an inspiration to all of us. Thanks for the memories and we’ll see you in London in 2012.

Athletics
22 Aug Pole Vault M 1 Steven Hooker (AUS)
19 Aug 100m Hurdles W 2 Sally McLellan (AUS)
22 Aug 50km Walk M 2 Jared Tallent (AUS)
16 Aug 20km Walk M 3 Jared Tallent (AUS)

Basketball
23 Aug Women 2 Australia (AUS)

Canoe/Kayak - Flatwater
23 Aug K1 500m M 1 Ken Wallace (AUS)
22 Aug K1 1000m M 3 Ken Wallace (AUS)
22 Aug K4 500m W 3 Australia (AUS)

Canoe/Kayak - Slalom
15 Aug K1 W 2 Jacqueline Lawrence (AUS)
12 Aug C1 M 3 Robin Bell (AUS)

Cycling - Track
19 Aug Sprint W 2 Anna Meares (AUS)

Diving
23 Aug 10m Platform M 1 Matthew Mitcham (AUS)
12 Aug 10m Platform Synchro W 2 Cole/Wu (AUS)

Equestrian - Eventing
12 Aug Team 2 Australia (AUS)

Hockey
23 Aug Men 3 Australia (AUS)

Rowing
16 Aug Pair M 1 Australia (AUS)
16 Aug Double Sculls M 1 Australia (AUS)
16 Aug Four M 2 Australia (AUS)

Sailing
18 Aug 470 M 1 Wilmot/Page (AUS)
18 Aug 470 W 1 Rechichi/Parkinson (AUS)
21 Aug Tornado 2 Bundock/Ashby (AUS)

Shooting
15 Aug 50m Rifle Prone M 3 Warren Potent (AUS)

Softball
21 Aug Women 3 Australia (AUS)

Swimming
12 Aug 100m Breaststroke W 1 Leisel Jones (AUS)
11 Aug 100m Butterfly W 1 Libby Trickett (AUS)
13 Aug 200m Individual Medley W 1 Stephanie Rice (AUS)
10 Aug 400m Individual Medley W 1 Stephanie Rice (AUS)
14 Aug 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay W 1 Australia (AUS)
17 Aug 4 x 100m Medley Relay W 1 Australia (AUS)
15 Aug 100m Freestyle W 2 Libby Trickett (AUS)
14 Aug 100m Freestyle M 2 Eamon Sullivan (AUS)
17 Aug 1500m Freestyle M 2 Grant Hackett (AUS)
15 Aug 200m Breaststroke W 2 Leisel Jones (AUS)
14 Aug 200m Breaststroke M 2 Brenton Rickard (AUS)
17 Aug 4 x 100m Medley Relay M 2 Australia (AUS)
17 Aug 50m Freestyle W 3 Cate Campbell (AUS)
16 Aug 100m Butterfly M 3 Andrew Lauterstein (AUS)
11 Aug 100m Butterfly W 3 Jess Schipper (AUS)
14 Aug 200m Butterfly W 3 Jess Schipper (AUS)
11 Aug 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay M 3 Australia (AUS)
10 Aug 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay W 3 Australia (AUS)
13 Aug 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay M 3 Australia (AUS)
12 Aug 100m Backstroke M 3 Hayden Stoeckel (AUS)

Triathlon
18 Aug Olympic Distance W 1 Emma Snowsill (AUS)
18 Aug Olympic Distance W 3 Emma Moffatt (AUS)

Water Polo
21 Aug Women 3 Australia (AUS)

I saw the race live and just loved how she ran her heart out and then looked over as she crossed the line to realise that she was in with a medal chance.

Not only was Sally the first Australian woman to make the hurdles finals since the 84 olympics but she managed to pick up a well deserved silver medal in a respectable time of 12.64s.

She said she knew she had clinched second place as soon as she crossed the line.

“I knew I got silver, I couldn’t believe how long it took to get on the scoreboard,” she said.

“I’ve just had the most amazing and incredible year ever and to top it off with a silver medal at the Olympic Games as a 21-year-old …”

To top off her fantastic performance, I just loved her reaction when talking to Channel 7…

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Strays Birthday is a fundraising event for The Lort Smith Animal hospital and the Animal Welfare League. By throwing a birthday party for your pet or making a donation to Strays Birthday you will help raise money to help almost 5000 dogs and cats each year. Plus everyone that raises or donates at least $15 to help save a stray pet’s life also goes into the draw to WIN a years worth of pet food!

Tyson, renamed Jeffery, had been surrendered to the RSPCA and spokesman Richard Barry said a microchip scan discovered that Jeffrey was on a stolen dog list and had been for two and a half years.

Mr McCrae said he could not believe Tyson had been found and arranged to fly him back home to Sydney.

“When he first saw me he was a bit shy and unsure,” he said.“He remembered the lounge as soon as he walked in (the house) – he jumped straight on the couch.”

Despite being double the size he was when he was stolen, not much about Tyson has changed over the years.

However Tyson will have to adjust to one change, Mr McCrae now has a girlfriend who Tyson will have to compete for attention with.

FORMER politician Pauline Hanson has been approached to do a reality television show about a single woman searching for love.

After shoe-shuffling her way through Dancing With The Stars in 2004, Pauline Hanson, could be set for a return to reality TV as a single woman searching for love.

The former politician confirmed she has been “casually” approached by Channel Seven to star in her own dating show in the tradition of Nine’s mega-hit A Farmer Wants A Wife.

No doubt based on a similar format we hope that Pauline is lucky in love and finds the man of her dreams.