The first 1,300 nursing graduates and students have received offers under the Tertiary Health Study Subsidy Program. In the Penrith electorate, this includes 17 new nursing students being offered the $4,000 per year scholarship and 54 graduating nursing students who have commenced employment with NSW Health being offered the $8,000 one-off payment. It comes as […]
23 May 2024
More than 140 vulnerable children were supported across 34 safe homes across the Western Sydney Nepean Blue Mountains District following the NSW Government’s drive to increase the number of emergency foster carers across the state. Emergency foster carers provide a safe environment for a child or sibling group at short notice and mean fewer children […]
23 May 2024
By Kellie Tickner, Orchard Hills Veterinary Hospital Administrator Ringworm, the contradiction that instils dread in pet owners, is not a product of worms as its name suggests, but rather a fungal infection that can wreak havoc on both pets and humans alike. Scientifically termed dermatophytosis, this fungal menace presents as circular lesions on the skin, […]
23 May 2024
Michelle (centre) has been photographed alongside Board Director, Mia Steele (left), and RPSCA NSW CEO, Steve Coleman (right). This month, the NSW RSPCA Volunteer of the Year Awards were held at Yagoona. The Runner Up was awarded to Michelle Dreaper from South Penrith. For the last eight years, Michelle has been a standout volunteer and […]
23 May 2024
Alan Syd Campbell passed away on 19th April and is best remembered for his 40-year RAAF career at Richmond Air Force base, his life as a teacher at TAFE and his twin passions of surfing and photography. Born in Manly in 1947, Alan later moved with his family to Mayfield, Newcastle, during the 1950s. After […]
23 May 2024
I was in the Gym parking lot the other day, just sitting there playing away on Facebook, and I happened to notice very young, very fit people attempting to park and then enter the Gym. So, as I picked the stray hair that had grown from the bottom of my chin with tweezers, I continued […]
23 May 2024
WELL-KNOWN Australian actor, author, television, and radio personality Andrew Daddo will be hosting Penrith’s Mayoral Charity Fundraiser at St Marys Leagues Club on Friday, 21 June 2024. As the community rallies together to show its support and raise much needed funds for the Penrith Community Kitchen, it will be a night like no other. This […]
23 May 2024
By Connie Uy-Pidelo-Ona Bang’s Chicken in Penrith could be considered the pinnacle of the more than 20 years’ food and hospitality career of Mr Kyeonghwan Bang. He has maintained a strong passion for the culinary arts and sciences, since he started as a university student who majored in this field in South Korea in his […]
23 May 2024
Photo of the workers at Brell’s Tannery courtesy of the late Margaret Player. By Lyn Forde – President/Research Officer of St Marys & District Historical Society Inc. IN December 1899, two young men named William Chapman and Robert Smeaton who were employed at Martin Brell’s tannery in St Marys went for a trip to the […]
23 May 2024
THE Penrith Basketball Association’s latest recruit to the NBL1 East Men’s squad, Jack McWilliams, is extremely well-credentialed and will ideally be a key member of the team through the remainder of the season. Jack began his basketball career in the junior representative ranks with the Macarthur Heat, before moving to the Camden Valley Wildfire, where […]
23 May 2024
