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Birriwal the Crane By Rachael VAUGHAN
SCARLETT Lewis, is a young girl of many talents. She is a Wirreanda Public School student, a keen quilter, a girl guide, and now among many other endeavours, a namer of cranes! A few months back, Wirreanda Public School students were proud to liaise with Williamtown RAAF Base and CPB construction
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company to enter a competition to name the giant crane towering over the RAAF base development works at Williamtown, Students were given the opportunity to paint, draw, colour and make a model of the crane, as well as name it. There were so many wonderfully talented entrants, and the school was very proud of the combined efforts of its students.
Scarlett Lewis was the overall winner of the whole competition, after making a great deal of effort to choose the name. Scarlett liaised with Vicki Griffiths from the local Worimi Land Council to choose the name ‘Birriwal’ for this giant crane. Birriwal means big and strong in the traditional language of the Worimi people.
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ONCE again angelic voices could be heard ringing out from Ferodale Oval with the annual Medowie Christmas Carols chalking up another successful year. Event organiser, Geoffrey Hamilton, from the Williamtown Rotary Club told News Of The Area, “We are
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thrilled!” “The crowd is great and we are using a new PA system this year.” “We couldn’t have put on this great event without the help of Medowie Christian School. With attendance numbers well over 2000, local schools and other organisations got in the festive spirit providing
entertainment for the crowd. It was a special evening for one Medowie family, with the Oldham-Smith’s bringing out their four-month-old baby, Cooper, to celebrate his first carols. Born 11 weeks early and spending the first 11 weeks of his life in the NICU (Neonatial CONTINUED Page 3
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