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19 April 1932 - 11 May 2020 I have many fond memories of Heather, who I first met in 1998 at the Rozelle Bay Community Nursery where we both did Bushcare. We were also both regulars at the Annandale Precinct Meetings. Heather with her friend Hilma was a core member of the Presbyterian Community in Annandale. Through Heather, I got involved in guiding heritage walks as part of the Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian Church Heritage Day. Heather encouraged me to write my Annandale Short Walk Books and provided valuable feedback on drafts of my first six books (1890s Annandale, Federation Annandale, Annandale's Great War, 1920s, 1930s and 1940s Annandale) published between 2010 and 2016. Heather left Annandale in 2015 and returned to Narrabri. My partner and I visited her in Narrabri in 2016. Heather was a great tour guide of her home town. We visited the Observatory and Sawn Rocks. A thanksgiving service was held at St Stephens Presbyterian Church in Narrabri and Heather was bur...

Toyanath Ghimire visits the Nursery on World Environment Day (5 June 2019) Toyanath Ghimire Chairman Nepal Education Environment Center (NEEC) Putalisadak Kathmandu Nepal came and visited the nursery to find out what we do an how we do it. Toya shared stories of frogs and sacred trees. We showed him the Striped Marsh Frog living in the nursery and took him for a walk around the White's Creek Wetlands, Checked out the food forest and Sewerage Aqueduct. Nepal Education Environment Center (NEEC) NEEC is an educational and environmental organisation in Nepal. NEEC aims to provide education and training in effective nature conservation activities including: sustainability plantation management biodiversity protection wildlife conservation public awareness activities especially in the schools in Nepal.  The Nursery volunteers were keen to continue the conservation and explore other ways of co-operation with NEEC to promote and protect biodiversity in both our cou...