Posts in WORDS OF WISDOM
Edith Walden - Words of Wisdom

This week I caught up with the hilariously cheeky Edith Walden. “I think it’s the best town in the world myself, I’m very proud of Orange, it’s well-kept, it’s nice to look at and nice to travel around it- best place in the world, I’m an Orange girl through and through.”

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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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David Birt

This week we caught up with Mr David Birt. A former Veteran, I was told he has a plaque from the French Government thanking David for his service. “It’s been quite an exciting life I’ve lived, I often think about it and think it has been great.”

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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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Jeffrey Fallon

This week we caught up with the very cheeky Mr Fallon, he mentioned with a big grin, “How I haven’t had a car accident yet is beyond me,  I am the worst car driver in Australia.”

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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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