Kingston Seniors Festival Launch: Meet Our Next Guest Author Shirley Randles - 11am-1pm, Thursday, 1st October 2015 Come Meet Mentone Public Library's star attraction for this year's Kingston Seniors Festival. Shirley Randles will be at Southland at the Council Central Ward Community Groups table to introduce herself and discuss her U3A Memoirs Writing Group Anthology "I Remember," Shirley's U3A Memoirs Writing Group speaking date at Mentone Public Library will be: 11am, Saturday 31st October 2015. The launch will be a cultural and artistic feast of entertainment at the food court performance stage near the David Jones Department store: kingston.vic.gov.au/seniorsfestival Celebrating our Seniors 18 September 2015 Kingston seniors will have a host of events and activities to choose from to celebrate the annual Kingston Seniors Festival. Now in its eighth year, the Festival offers a month-long calendar including ballroom dancing, fashio

Mentone Public Library Proudly Presents  as Part of Our Ongoing Series  "An Author for All Seasons: Series Five"  Our Springtime Storytelling Special:  "How We Played Then and How We Play Now"  With Local Author:  Danae Andrea Harwood http://www.danae-andrea.com/home.html            Danae Invites you to Come along        and         Bring Your Inner Child With you               for this Fun and Nostalgic Retrospective!                 Boys and Girls, We Welcome you to... This Event Will Contain Copious Doses of Fun,  Laughter and Audience Participation. Prepare for: Musical Chairs Pass the Parcel Sing-a-longs And Dot-tastic Entertainment with Danae  that is Sure  to Make you Grin from Ear to Ear WHEN: 11am-1.15pm (including intermission),  Saturday, 26th September 2015                                                                                               RSVP: Thursday, 24th Se

Every person has a story.  My story starts as a military pilot that found himself with many skills – but not being able to cook meals for three young children.  I was more fearful of cutting an onion than flying a jet at low level at over 500kms per hour.  I didn’t want to do take-away or drive-thru and wanted them to have the dinner table experience that I had when I was a child.  The dinner table is the place where time is shared without screens or distractions – the highs and lows – what was learned and what could be improved.  Most importantly, what was funny and how we all feel.  This is the dinner table that I invented for my children by going through the process of creating a cook book for kids – by Dads.   During the presentation, we discussed the process of collecting recipes from Mums and Dads all around the country, how these recipes were tested by children, the preparation of food, the storage of food, the essential equipment within the kitchen