THE third issue of the print edition of New Norfolk and Derwent Valley News will be available tomorrow, Friday, September 11. The paper will be on sale at twice the number of outlets as last month, with orders being received from Longford in the north to Kingston in the south.
Tomorrow’s issue is another 28-page-paper, containing more than 50 individual news items, letters, historical articles, sport and more. There is a special two-page feature on the New Norfolk Fire Brigade (pictured) being recognised for its century-plus service to the town, including the names of nearly 30 members who have been awarded the Tasmania Fire Service Volunteer Jubilee Medal. There’s another great recipe from the Magra CWA, young people kicking goals, the Willow Court latest, and council news you won’t get anywhere else.
In the Derwent Valley, the shops stocking the paper include the New Norfolk Newsagency, Riteway New Norfolk, Eagle Snack Bar, New Norfolk IGA, Bushy Park Roadhouse, Westerway Roadhouse, Ellendale Post Office, and Hamilton Post Office. Mood Food New Norfolk, Claremont Newsagency, Bridgewater Newsagency, the Lagoon Store at Granton, and the Bothwell Supermarket are among the new sellers this month, while readers in any part of Tasmania can ask their preferred newsagency to order them a copy via the Mercury as the distribution agent.
Good sales were achieved by the New Norfolk Newsagent’s door-to-door sellers last month, and New Norfolk residents remain able to ask the newsagent to organise for a paper seller to visit within the town boundaries. More distant readers might prefer to download a copy from newnorfolknews.com.
The support of readers and advertisers has been greatly appreciated. Feedback on the paper is invited by emailing damian@newnorfolknews.com
DAMIAN BESTER
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COVID-STYLE/STORIES PAGE 11
A bubble is anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project. (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh (also: bubble bath).
Are you having a bubble?! There is no doubt about the strangeness of any old real-life situations being re-visited during life in & out of your own personal, family and community bubble. But let us think about what we can be attached to. What is that one take away worth thinking about?
Consider any of the major circumstances warped by COVID-19. A family spending all their waking hours in each others company. The strangest aspect of the bubble experience is discovering one’s self. The developing and building upon the life skills demonstrated during the adjustment stage of life with your loved ones. Taking stock and fostering personal relationships at all levels of daily living.
Getting the blood pumping again after being tested by COVID-19. Just let us think: we have personally been tested during this part of our own personal history in the making considering what makes us human, body and mind. Especially when some stinking thinking comes your way “I was kinda’ in the middle of nowhere”.
We must remember that the virus did not set a circumstance for people to not be responsible for self. The health and wellbeing of your relationship with family. friends and the authorities is my responsibility. Each and every one of us is expected to take ownership of our bubble.
Johnny Nash got it “I can see clearly now” and it translates into my ‘bubble’… when used to refer to a good or fortunate situation that is isolated from reality or unlikely to last. The production of clear guidelines and protocols will be the reality for life going forward.