By Jeremy Lister
The mural opening
On the 25th of January our family attended the unveiling of mural about the memories of Keith Cobon’s family. Mr and Mrs Cobon are great friends of our family and it was wonderful to be invited to their special event. The mural was painted by Franco Arcidiacono and I think he did an amazing job. Mr Cobon says it turned out even better than he expected. The mural is called ‘Memories of A Life in Pictures’ and it is above the new Slaps café, Stanthorpe Jewellers and Pureheaven shops in the main street in Stanthorpe. I really love all of the murals in the Southern Downs. My favourite is the Italian café scene painted outside of Vixen’s café.
Missie
When Mum got home from driving us to the first day of school (Tuesday) she found our Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Missie crying in pain. Mum suspected straight away that she had right heart failure and rushed her to the vet. Unfortunately Missie had to be put to sleep and Mum is very, very upset. We lost Connie our other Cavalier on Christmas Eve so it is a very difficult time for Mum. Missie and Connie were almost 16 and 15 years old and Mum bought them a long time ago before she met Dad. Connie was about 6 months old when Mum and Dad met. Missie got into a lot of mischief and she could do tricks like going round and round in circles and yodelling. I miss you so much Missie and I will never forget you.
*This is an old article from 2 February, which is being digitised so locals have access to our entire catalogue of work.
