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Nov 11, 2024 | 
hunterrivertimes.com.au | Di Sneddon
BY DI SNEDDONDISCLOSURE OF CONFLICT OF INTERESTBoth my parents lived at the Mercy Nursing Home in Singleton until they took their last breath. I am on Ourcare Services Ltd. Board. I declare I may have a perceived conflict of interest. A bombshell was dropped on Singleton on October 29 with the announcement that Mercy Services would cease providing residential aged care services in Singleton.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
hunterrivertimes.com.au | Di Sneddon
BY DI SNEDDONEmily Caelli is a young, beautiful, polite, and energetic woman. The Singletonian is also executive producer and actor in the movie, Site Unseen, currently being filmed in the Hunter. Emily’s character is murdered. How, I ask? “Axe to the back of my head,” she confided with a little smirk.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
hunterrivertimes.com.au | Di Sneddon
BY DI SNEDDONPeople take up new hobbies for all sorts of reasons but for Singleton’s Danielle Sommer, becoming a bell ringer at All Saints Anglican Church is a tale of luck, hope and a promise she made to God. It all started when she decided to have a spring clean at home. She discarded plenty of items and clothes that she placed in the All Saints op shop collection bins. Ten days later, as she was getting ready to see Dawn French perform in Newcastle, she looked for her jewellery.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
hunterrivertimes.com.au | Di Sneddon
BY DI SNEDDONWhile there is plenty of talk around renewables and potential nuclear energy, one project that is well into the planning is the recommissioning of Redbank Power Station. Located between Singleton and Jerrys Plains at Long Point Road, Warkworth, Redbank Power Station began generating power in 2001 using coal tailings from the nearby Wambo Mine. When that supply ceased, the plant went into care and maintenance mode and has been so since October, 2014.
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May 13, 2024 | 
hunterrivertimes.com.au | Di Sneddon
Century Old Pozières Secret Revealed By Di SneddonWhen Dr Larry Cornell was handed his great grandfather’s war diary he could not believe what it contained. H Percy (HP) Cornell was a sapper in World War 1 and helped to build the iconic war monument to the First Australian Division in Pozières but there is a little more to that construction that has laid secret for some 100 years, only revealed by Dr Cornell after he read the historic diary.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
hunterrivertimes.com.au | Di Sneddon
BY DI SNEDDONProfessional Squash Association (PSA) players from Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Hong Kong and Malaysia will take on the best Australia has to offer in Singleton in May when the Singleton Heights Sports Centres hosts a major tournament. Interest has been keen and event organiser Zoe Collins puts it down to the announcement that squash will make its first appearance at the Olympic Games in 2028.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
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King Street Public School Performs World First Song BY DI SNEDDONWonnarua elder Uncle Warren Taggart performs plenty of Welcome to Country statements but one particular event was catalyst for a world-first performance of a song by King Street Public School students last Friday. Uncle Warren was at a concert at Roche estate and was invited back to The Waifs green room for a chat.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
hunterrivertimes.com.au | Di Sneddon
BY DI SNEDDONSingleton’s Phillip Boyd might not be keen to get in front of the camera but he is proud to showcase his historic home, a heritage property he says his late wife, Anne turned into a home. Anne and Phillip moved into their home, located in Singleton, on April 7, 1978, but it was back when a young Phillip first spotted the property in 1971 that he admired the home called Frome from the street.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
hunterrivertimes.com.au | Di Sneddon
BY DI SNEDDONBibiana Matanisiga or Bibi is she is better known, is embracing her new working life in Australia but not without great sacrifice. Bibi and husband Carl have left their five children in the care of Carl’s parents back in Fiji after they were accepted for working opportunities in Australia through the Palm Scheme. Both are now working at Arbor Café at Club Dorsman in Singleton and Bibi is most grateful for the opportunity it will provide for her family’s future.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
hunterrivertimes.com.au | Di Sneddon
BY DI SNEDDONTony and Sandra Zanardi and their family, alongside neighbour Paul Burley and his family enjoy views at Maison Dieu near Singleton over pasture, horses feeding on the grass and cattle grazing. It is unusually green at the moment and quite picturesque but last year they were told of a plan to develop this view into a solar farm they say will destroy their way of life. Terrain Solar in partnership with RATCH Australia Corporation Pty Ltd.
