Tackle cancer with loving support
If you’re a cancer patient, survivor, carer, or friend, and keen to create lasting connections, feel less isolated, learn valuable coping skills, gain a greater feeling of control and self-worth, and, most importantly, have some fun, please feel free to join The Active Women Cancer Support Group. Meeting twice monthly, for lunch at Curl Curl’s Gusto Café on the first Friday of the month, as well as dinner and a talk at Balgowlah RSL on the third Monday of the month, you’re invited to come along to one or both gatherings and benefit from a safe and supportive environment for women touched by cancer. Email activewomencancergroup@gmail.com to learn more, or head to Facebook.
65 years young, with the brightest of futures
This April, we wish Colormaker Industries the happiest of 65th birthdays! Starting out in Brookvale in 1958 as G&H Chemical Industries, and founded by Gregory Givorshner, a pioneering soul who carved his path to Brookvale from Belarus via Shanghai, Colormaker Industries is now owned and operated by another pioneer, David Stuart, whose commitment to providing genuinely eco-friendly paints, and with total devotion to powering the business with 100% renewable energy is something the Northern Beaches can all be proud of. Celebrate 65 years of Colormaker with their April Birthday Sale by popping into the Colormaker Paint Shop on Orchard Road, visit www.colormaker.com.au, or call 02 9939 7977.
Corso street stall for Aussie hearts and lungs
Manly wonder, Winifred Garland, of the Australian Heart/Lung Transplants Association, known as AHLTA, would like to invite everyone to their AHLTA street stall taking place Friday 31 March in front of Manly Corso’s Humphrey’s Newsagency from 8.30am-3.30pm. On sale will be jams, butters, marmalades, chutneys, pickles, cakes, hand-made baby goods, puzzles, bric-a-brac and even a raffle. Please come along, say hello, and support this wonderful charity which supports heart and lung transplant patients and their families throughout their journey. For more info, please call Winnie on 9971 0821.
Forget the Jones’, keep up with the Grandkids!
Pilates isn’t exclusively for vegan smoothie drinkers with a penchant for walking round town clutching yoga mats, it’s for every one of every age! And there’s no better way to stay young, nubile, foot loose, fancy free and able to keep even the spriteliest of grandkids on their toes than by making the most of Turning Pointe Pilates’ classes in Dee Why. Lisa and the team are blessed with the ability to ensure you have your fullest vitality to enjoy. Whether you’re recovering from joint replacements, dealing with back and neck pain or simply keen to move with ease, call Lisa on 0435 293 748 or visit turningpointepilates.com.au
WANTED: Junior Theatre Reviewer
The Tawny Frogmouth and Glen Street Theatre are looking for a Junior Theatre Reviewer!
Is that you or a youngster you know who’s destined for a merry articulate career in critiquing? We will be selecting a special young person to come along to Glen Street’s fantastic program of kids’ shows in 2023, including 360 ALLSTARS, Possum Magic, Are We There Yet? and The Twits! The successful applicant will receive a family pass including tickets for two adults and two children to attend and review these four shows throughout the year for The Tawny Frogmouth! If you’re between 8-12, tell us in 25 words (or less) why you would like to be our first ever junior reviewer! Hurry, applications close Easter Monday, 10 April! Visit glenstreet.com.au and follow the prompts. Good luck!