This rural property along Hansens Road near Minto Heights boasted two rows of grapevines for many years, a lovely reminder that wines were produced both in the east and west parts of Campbelltown in the early days of the colony.
In recent weeks a new feature has become part of this property: sheep.
Which is nice because it’s another reminder of our past, this time of John Macarthur, the man who pioneered the sheep industry in Australia.
A little further up the road heading towards Leumeah and Ruse, there’s another agricultural property, where bananas are grown.
Campbeltown may be a growing urban centre, but if you look closely there are still many reminders of its farming and agricultural past.
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We hope your election experience last Saturday wasn’t as disappointing as ours.
We’re not talking about the result here, no, but the fact our little booth at Kentlyn public school failed to offer voters a democracy sausage.
It’s understandable that most elections not enough people vote at this booth.
We actually decided to walk the two kilometres from our home to the school.
Our cunning plan was to vote, enjoy a democracy sausage and then walk it off with the two kilometre return trip.
But it was not to be
The irony of it all was that for the first time in years, there were long queues at Kentlyn.
An election worker inside the hall told us it was possibly because there were huge queues at the closest other booth at Ruse public school a kilometre and a bit away from Kentlyn.
No sausage this time, so we have to bide our time until the next election, a NSW state one, in March 2027.
Which is not that far away thinking about it.
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A couple of weeks ago race 2 at the Wentworth Park greyhounds, a 520m dash, carried a rather cryptic name: Get Well Cuzzo.
Well, let’s end this little mystery for our readers. Cuzzo is none other than Wayne Cousins, who many readers will remember was the legendary sports editor of the Macarthur Advertiser in the mid to late 1990s and a few years into the new millennium. He eventually moved on to become the media manager for Wests Tigers, and then, for the past 10 years, at the Manly footy team.
Wayne has been in hospital for more than three months battling an autoimmune disease, the good news being he is slowly recovering from it.
Back to race 2, Wayne’s former boss at the Wests Tigers, Campbelltown’s own Steve Noyce, who has lots of connections in the greyhounds industry, organised the gig at the dish lickers.
The South West Voice bumped into “Noycee’’ and thanked him for the wonderful gesture in trying to cheer up his former media manager at the Tigers.
In response, he also told me that he had visited Cuzzo in hospital recently, and decided to wear a Wests Tigers jersey.
“I stuck out like a sore thumb,’’ he told us.
“Northern Beaches Hospital is right in the heart of Manly Sea Eagles territory and I doubt if they see too many walking around there wearing a Tigers jumper.
“Plus I wanted to cheer Wayne up, so it was good,’’ he said.
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Not sure which utility is responsible for this broken cover on Georges River Road, but we sure hope they get on and repair it before someone falls down in it. Plenty of joggers and runners use this part of Campbelltown, as well as children walking and cycling from school. So, please, get it fixed asap.
