SOCIAL NEWS
with Val Brooke

WEDDING bells will peal at St Augustine's Anglican Church, on November 22 for the marriage of Christine Ford of Mapleton and Ian Reid of Palmwoods.

The bride, who originally came from Sydney, will be attended by the groom's ten-year-old daughter Nicki with his son Joshua, 8, as best man. After the late afternoon ceremony, family and friends will celebrate at Clio's Restaurant.

Both Ian and Christine are potters at the Flaxton Gardens Pottery and after their honeymoon they will live in Aminga Court. HAZEL Larard has been hors-de-combat of late and unable to undertake her usual active involvement with the special children using the Riding for Disabled facilities at the Larard property on Hunchy Road.

Hazel has been ill with that painful ailment named shingles. All of Hazel's friends wish her a speedy and complete recovery.

IT IS always difficult to enlist volunteers to give of their time and energy to participate in a charity door-knock. Nevertheless, $2650 was collected for the annual Queensland Cancer Fund Door Knock from the Palmwoods, Chevallum, Eudlo and Woombye areas.

Unfortunately, this year there were fewer volunteers so less money was collected from this district than in previous years.

MICHELLE Naughtin is all but confined to barracks at her home in Taronga Street, Palmwoods.

Michelle, wife of Greg and mother of Brodie and Amelia, is active and able on the sports courts as well as the ski slopes and swimming pool.

She is employed as a secondary school teacher and manages all her activities capably and well. But she couldn't manage the second lowest step of the staircase in her own home.

Michelle took a tumble which resulted in broken bones in her left ankle and foot. She is now sporting a cumbersome plaster on her leg and is progressing from wheelchair to crutches to walking stick on the road to recovery.

WOOMBYE Community Library volunteer staff are grateful for the continued support of the Maroochy Shire Council.

Each financial year the Council forwards a grant of $12,000, to run and maintain this facility for the benefit of this district.

The library is housed in the front two rooms of the Woombye School of Arts and is open between 2 and 4pm weekdays and from 9am to noon on Saturdays.

The library houses a well stocked and popular junior section as well as a bulging-at-the-seams adult section.

Borrowers of adult fiction can choose from well over 1000 individual authors, as well as a comprehensive non-fiction section, many popular periodicals and an extensive range of large-print novels for the sight impaired.

The Woombye Community Library is a free lending library and the volunteer staff are proud of the standard they maintain.

If you enjoy reading, join the ever increasing number of borrowers using this service available in your local community.