Letter to the Editor
I would like to thank Lyndean and Sandra who helped me up after I tripped over on Sept 19th and helped me to Dr Bush's surgery    Thanks to all the people who have phoned to enquire how I am. Over the years at the Hair Salon you have become more than clients and I regard you as  friends. What a wonderful supportive community we live in. A special thank you to Maureen who has kept us supplied with baked cakes Mike
especially appreciated them.
Best wishes for Christmas and 2004 to you all.
Sue Armes

Tasmanian Regional Arts,
Lilydale Branch
Christmas is approaching at an alarming speed,
however, preparations for our second 'Carols on the Green' are well in hand, and, going by the current
activity at the shelter, we will have a perfect setting.
To give the Green a Christmas atmosphere we have available a number of cardboard cylinders, of various lengths and diameters which we hope to have
decorated and assembled as an installation for the
festive season.  As with the Fence Posts (remember them?), we hope that a variety of Groups will take on the responsibility of decorating a cylinder for the
occasion.  They can be painted, made into Angels, have decorations glued on, the sky is the limit.  If you want to be involved please contact Jillian Weston on
63 95 1062 to collect your cylinder.
As at our inaugural Carols evening we will again be
entertained by our local choir, 'The Valley Voices".  As well there will be community singing and a free sausage sizzle, with our faithful local Fire Brigade doing the 'sizzling'.  Please bring a chair, or you may prefer to sit on the grass, which right now looks very inviting.
The event will start at 7 p.m.
Local Artist Jillian Weston has been working with a dedicated band of local High School students, painting colourful murals as a backdrop for their proposed 'Shady Café' area.  We look forward to admiring the finished artwork.
On behalf of the Committee of the Lilydale Branch of Tasmanian Regional Arts, I wish all our members and the people of the Lilydale District a great Christmas Season and a safe and happy New Year.

The Distance for Discovery 2003
A Celebration of Life - Stuart Easom
A 47 day, 2372 km solo bicycle marathon that will
circumnavigate Tasmania, as well as covering the Great Ocean Road from Melbourne as I return back to Adelaide between October 27 and December 12, 2002.
This trip will be the third undertaken for this particular cause, the Hanson Centre for Cancer Research at the IMVS/Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Stuart is a cancer survivor, who has undertaken two