Posts tagged Wisdom
Colleen Quigg - Words of Wisdom

This week I caught up with the very cheeky Colleen Quigg. At the time of our interview, Colleen was highly anticipating ‘Happy Hour’, greeting me with a, ‘CHEERS’. A truly beautiful soul, I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did!

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Olga Wheeler

This week I caught up with the beautiful Olga Wheeler. “I feel proud to be 99. I’ve had a long life, and I’ve had a good life, strangely enough it’s gone quickly. I’ve never wanted for anything; my children and grandchildren are wonderful to me.”

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Mrs Janet Norton - Words of Wisdom

This week we caught up with the very cheeky, fun-loving and active Mrs Janet Norton, the kind of active that makes my 24-year-old self feel like I need to go out and get myself a gym membership. Janet was born in Cudal and has lived there ever since, on the family farm.

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Betty Weale - Words of Wisdom

“The year after the war I was a finalist in the Miss Australia Competition, it was about who raised the most money for charity. I was on the front page of the paper when I made my debut. We went out on a boat once and when we got right out the boat broke down, we had to wait for the lifesaver and swim ashore, well I didn’t wait for the lifesaver I swam myself to shore.” *laughs*

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Len Nash - Words of Wisdom

This week we caught up with previous Canowindra local, Mr Len Nash. Len was the youngest of nine children, the bush lifestyle was always his calling, “The freedom and beauty of the bush, the sunrise and sunsets - they are beautiful.”

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Philip Vale - Words of wisdom

I went to boarding school when I was 8 and I left when I was 18. When I turned 14 my father was a master craftsman goldsmith, English trained, but I was born in Australia, so I couldn’t follow the protocol, so he taught me to be a silversmith.

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