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Incorporating Hills HawkEye

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Enquire about Joining PWP

Why YOU should join Parents Without Partners (PWP)

· Over 1,500 affordable activities a year

· Something on every night of the week

· Subsidised children's activities every weekend

· A great new single lifestyle

· Meet people and make friends at PWP

· Membership is a passport to any PWP activities in Australia & overseas

Members always have discounts to open functions &/or get group discounts at events

Everything you want to know is at the PWP NSW Website

BILLBOARD

ELECTIONS and AGMs

It is that time of the year again and PWP will work only with involvement from the members.

As a minimum, you need to turn up at your AGM to vote.

We need a minimum number (quorum) at your AGM in order to elect your committee.

Don’t assume someone else will do it - that is a recipe for failure !

The alternative is that your Branch has to be administered by State Management Committee which is not in anyone’s interest.

Please consider also how you could make a contribution to your committee.

Remember PWP is a self-help body where nothing “just happens”.

Sunday 23 July – HILLS

11am Committee Room, Upstairs at Gilbert Rd Tennis Courts, Castle Hill.

Sausage Sizzle afterwards for attendees.

BRANCH ANNOUNCEMENTS

BRANCH COMMITTEES:

Please Email ANNOUNCEMENTS or PROGRAM CHANGES to be published here

STATE

Time is short – BOOK NOW !

or run the risk of missing out on

“ THE EVENT of the YEAR ”

Romeo & Juliet

-ANNUAL BALL

–--5th August 2006

THE EPPING CLUB (beautiful venue)

45-47 Rawson Rd Epping

7-8pm Complimentary Pre Dinner Drinks

3 Course Dinner & Dancing Till Midnight

LIVE BAND

~ All Welcome ~

Members $60, Non Members $70

Tickets Available From State Office & Your Branch Committee

For Credit Card Purchases, Ring 9833-2633

Tell Your Friends & Book a Table…

CITY of SYDNEY

Postponed from last week

COUNTRY MUSIC AT CANTERBURY/HURLSTONE PARK RSL CLUB

THE COMING WEEK

(in brief - see ‘Soleparent’ for details)

Thursday 20 July

Final Bookings for:City - Xmas in July, Sat 22 July.

CITY OF SYDNEY

COUNTRY MUSIC (postponed from last week)

HILLS DISTRICT

ADVANCED DANCE LESSONS

NORTHSIDE

BUSHWALK

Friday 21 July

Final Bookings for:Northside - International dinner, Sat 22 July.

HILLS DISTRICT

ADULT HOUSE PARTY @ Cath's, Baulkham Hills

Saturday 22 July

CITY OF SYDNEY

LESLIE'S ANNUAL XMAS IN JULY DINNER Matraville

HILLS DISTRICT

KOALA PARK West Pennant Hills

NORTHSIDE

INTERNATIONAL CUISINE DINNER @ Christine's. West Pennant Hills

Sunday 23 July

CITY OF SYDNEY

SYDNEY JAZZ CLUB PICNIC AT BERRY ISLAND Wollstonecraft

HILLS DISTRICT

HILLS BRANCH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, ELECTIONS & BBQ - 11am Committee Room, Upstairs at Gilbert Rd Tennis Courts, Castle Hill. Sausage Sizzle after for those who attended.

Also

ADULT BIG BAND DANCE

Also

ASQUITH LEAGUES CLUB FAMILY DINNER

MACARTHUR

FAMILY LUNCH & CHAT Campbelltown RSL

NORTHSIDE

BUSHWALK - Lane Cove National Park

Monday 24 July

CITY OF SYDNEY

WALK THE BAY

HILLS DISTRICT

BUDGET MONDAY NIGHT DINNER

Also

BRANCH COMMITTEE MEETING

NORTHSIDE

BISTRO CLUB LUNCH

Tuesday 25 July

CITY OF SYDNEY

CEROC DANCING LESSONS

HILLS DISTRICT

VALUE STEAK DINNER

Wednesday 26 July

HILLS DISTRICT

NEW MEMBERS INFORMATION & JOINING NIGHT

Also

KINGSWOOD SINGLES DANCE

Also

SOCIAL TENNIS

NORTHSIDE

DINNER AND CHAT

Thursday 27 July

Final Bookings for:Northside - Indian Restaurant, Sat 29 July.

CITY OF SYDNEY

THE SYDNEY SOUND BIG BAND

HILLS DISTRICT

ADVANCED DANCE LESSONS

NORTHSIDE

BUSHWALK

Friday 28 July

Final Bookings for:City - Genesian Theatre, Sat 29 July.Northside -Seafood BBQ, Sun 30 July.

HILLS DISTRICT

ADULT BIRTHDAY & HATS HOUSE PARTY @ Di's, Kellyville.

-This Week’s Favourites/Bookmarks

Why not bookmark these ?

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES at

http://www.pwp-hills.org/welfaredirectory_mentalhealth.htm

If you know of someone who is having mental health problems then there maybe useful services listed on this link. If you work in the human resource management employee support area, counselling, welfare, health, education or community information fields then this online directory could be valuable to have bookmarked as a Favourite in your work and home browsers.

PWP USA Branch New London County CT http://www.geocities.com/pwp_nlc

PWP USA Branch Single Parents of the Twin Tiers NY http://www.geocities.com/spottpwp/Home.html

Parents with Child Support Problems
Our Child Support Service gives free legal advice and assistance. We can assist you to follow up your case with the Child Support Agency. www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/asp/index.asp?pgid=53

-July 20

Birthdays:

In 1919, New Zealand mountain climber, Sir Edmund Hilary (87) Along with Sherpa, Tensing Norgay, he was the first man to climb to the summit of Mt Everest.

In 1938, British actress, Dame Diana Rigg (68) Diana played Emma Peel in TV’s The Avengers.

In 1945, American singer/songwriter, Kim Carnes (61) Kim’s biggest hit in Australia was in 1981 with “Bette Davis Eyes”

In 1947, Mexican guitar legend, Carlos Santana (59)

In 1953, American-born singer, Australian Idol judge and mother of Deni Hines, Marcia Hines (53)

In 1978, Australian runner and radio personality, Tamsyn Lewis (28) Tamsyn was the youngest member of the Commonwealth Games team in 1994 at age 16.

On This Day:

In 1940, Billboard magazine published its first "Music Popularity Chart." The first No. 1 hit was "I'll Never Smile Again" by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, on which Frank Sinatra sang vocals.

In 1944, an attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.

In 1954, Elvis Presley gave his first public performance, playing on a flatbed truck parked outside a drug store in Memphis.

In 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike was voted in as Ceylon’s new prime minister, making her the first-ever female head of government in the world.

In 1963, in W.A., the first stage of the Ord River irrigation project, the dam at Kununurra, opened.

In 1968, Jane Asher announced live on television that Paul McCartney had broken off their engagement

In 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. (Australians witnessed this event on July 21)

In 1972, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was removed from the lawns of Old Parliament House in Canberra

In 1976, the Viking 1 lander, an unmanned U.S. planetary probe, became the first spacecraft to successfully land on the surface of Mars.

In 1999, after 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule surfaced.

SOURCE: RADIOINFO

:-) The Misspelled Email

It's wise to remember how easily email -- this wonderful technology -- can be misused, sometimes unintentionally, with serious consequences.

Consider the case of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida.

His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email.

Unfortunately, when typing her address, he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife whose husband had passed away only the day before.

When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint.

At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:

Dearest Wife, Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.

P.S. Sure is hot down here.

Afterthought: Well, we knocked the bastard off! Hillary's comment to George Lowe, after his successful ascent of Mt Everest, as he and Tenzing Norgay were descending from the summit. (29 May 1953); as recounted in Nothing Venture, Nothing Win (1975) Ch. 10

-Computing Tip

Back up your important data !

To CD, flash drive, even floppy disk but DO IT NOW.

This is a good place to start

Computer Problems ?……….Hardware failure?

Computer running slowly?Don’t understand your software?

Internet problems?…………..Don’t know what to do next?

· Help to buy, set up and use your computer

· New or refurbished systems to suit your budget

Ring John: 9626 9093 or 0408 416 466 Email: getugoing@hotpop.com

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