Articles tagged ‘Farewells’.
By Andrew McKenna There are a few people in life who I can say have not just influenced me but been ‘markers’ or milestones in my life. Do...
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The Independent “La Dama de Hierro” has passed away. Argentina’s media has always embraced the Iron Lady title, a nickname that in its ey...
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Great Grandma Sassy ‘Saskatchewan’ O’Higgins came to Australia from County Monaghan via Canada and Chicago. She migrated after falling i...
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Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, the revered “father of modern African literature”, has died aged 82. Best known internationally for his n...
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By Andrew McKenna A year and a bit ago a V/Line train left Southern Cross Station and travelled 800 metres down the wrong track towards an oncoming pa...
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Ravi Shankar, the sitar maestro who popularised Indian classical music in the West, has died at the age of 92. In a statement, Shankar’s family ...
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See out the end of the world as we know it on Saturday, 1 December at the Anglican Church Hall in Castlemaine with a great night of cabaret and dancin...
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Council’s local laws officers were recently contacted to attend the scene of a disturbing act of animal cruelty. A local walker had discovered a dea...
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By Andrew McKenna For years the old Castlemaine Gaol has hung like a millstone around the neck of this shire. A ball chained to the suppurating leg of...
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We’re on holidays for three weeks! Send us a postcard! The whole fun crew at CI is headed to Acapulco for some team building, workshops on non-v...
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The classifieds software we use recently had an upgrade with significant structural change. Since then we have had a number of people who couldn’...
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By Antoinette Birkenbeil The death of Australia’s greatest jazzman, Graeme Bell, at the ripe old age of 97, heralds the end of a significant period ...
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The Guardian Carlos Fuentes, Mexico‘s most celebrated novelist and a leading figure in Latin America’s 20th century literary boom of the ...
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Three car bombs have exploded in Dublin, killing 23 people and injuring more than 100 others during rush hour. Five more people died and another 20 we...
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Filled your cellar with canned food? We are nearly half way through 2012 and on December 21 a cataclysmic event is supposed to occur which, according ...
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Who wants to talk about death and dying? That is just what the Castlemaine Health and Maldon Hospital Palliative Care Special Interest Group is inviti...
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Is Fukushima’s Doomsday Machine About to Blow? By Mike Whitney April 19, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Mounting troubles...
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EPIC needs a list of members for their appeal to VCAT. If you currently receive EPIC emails you are not a member you should still join. It’s fr...
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It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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British troops have opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators in the Bogside district of Londonderry, killing 13 civilians. Seventeen more people, inclu...
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THE last New Year’s Day in human history has come. You may not believe it, but millions do. They are convinced that ancient Maya priests calcula...
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By Deborah Bonello The killing of documentary maker Christian Poveda represents a sad loss for a region much in need of greater understanding. The fir...
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By T. Crofton Croker The ancient burial-place of the Cantillon family was on an island in Ballyheigh Bay. This island was situated at no great distanc...
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By Ernesto Cardenal translated by Andrew McKenna They killed you and didn’t tell us where they buried your body, But ever since that day the who...
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Betty Skelton Erde, an auto racing pioneer who was once the fastest woman on Earth, has died. She was 85. Erde began as a female stunt pilot as a teen...
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In May this year an international team of forensic experts began examining the remains of Chile’s former president Salvador Allende to get to th...
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Poet, novelist, musician, spoken-word guru, campaigner, thorn in the side of the establishment, victim of his own weaknesses: Gil Scott-Heron, who die...
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MEXICO CITY (AP).- British-born painter, writer and sculptor Leonora Carrington, considered one of the last of the original surrealists, has died. She...
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Award-winning journalist Almena Lomax recently died in Pasadena, California, at the age of 95. Lomax was a pioneering black journalist in Southern Cal...
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Thanks to Isaac Sutcliffe for this grand idea: Ziggy Switkowski, businessman and nuclear physicist – but mostly businessman – has been pop...
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3 February 1959: Three young rock ‘n’ roll stars, including 22-year-old singer Buddy Holly, die when their plane crashes in the United Sta...
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George Orwell died on 21 January 1950 after a three-year battle against tuberculosis. Until the last, news had been positive and it was hoped Mr Orwe...
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Vanishing voices An open database of endangered languages has been launched by researchers in the hope of creating a free, online portal that will giv...
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“I did it for Jacqueline Kennedy” – Jack Ruby The man accused of assassinating the US President, John F Kennedy, has himself been sh...
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