BOOK LAUNCH
BOOK LAUNCH - YANDINA 125 YEARS
On August 24, 1996 Yandina celebrated its 125 birthday. It was an exciting
day and children from Yandina State School entered colouring in contests,
wrote essays and made collages about what the local mountain, Mount Ninderry
had seen since the Aboriginal Dreamtime, and they sang some songs at the
launch of the book , Yandina 125 years. This book was written by some of
the local historians including Mrs Audienne Blyth, Mr Fred Fink, Mrs Berenis
Alcorn, Mrs Joan Hogarth, Mrs Barbara Want and Mrs Noelene Hughes. One of
the songs was a special celebration song written for the occasion by Ms.
Belinda Hentschell, music teacher at the school. Here are some of the accounts
of the day seen through the eyes of the Yandina State School Children.
Some of the people at the Book Launch.
Lacey Tessmann and Joel Couacaud thank Mrs Blyth for all the work she did
to get the book launched. If it had not been for Mrs Blyth there would have
not been an update to the Centenary Book written in 1971.

On Saturday the 24 of August our class 5H sang a song called " Come
on lets celebrate'' and Mr Hartshorn our counciller introduced our friends
and relatives who have noticed the changes over the past few years
Click here to see a movie of our performance (638 K) After we sang our song
Mrs Gregory launched the Yandina 125 th Birthday Book . Mrs Blyth made a
speech and was presented with a bunch of flowers .Miss Simpson made a speech,
and talked about her life at Yandina State School and Mr. Hartshorn was
one who was
representing everyone and it was very crowed . There were a lot of stalls
there and i went on the giant slide and the fun house and they were great
.
When I got to the fair Iwent straight to the School of Arts. I had to wait
there a while because
everyone wasn't there yet. At five to one o'clock we got on to the stage
and sat down.After Mr.
Hartshorn said a little speech he said that we were from Yandina State School
choir. After that we got up and started to sing,'' River of Dreams'' and
'' Come on lets Celebrate.'' We sang 5 times.
After a long speech from Mr. Hartshorn Acacia and Matt Hill gave Mrs. Gregory
a gift and gave
a speech. After that Joel and Lacey gave Mrs. Blyth a bunch of flowers and
gave a speech. After
that we walked down to the stage down in the middle of Steven St.There we
sang ,'' Come on lets
Celebrate,'' and ,'' I feel it in my fingers.'' After we sang that I went
down the Giant Slide. The street
was crowded with heaps of people and a lot of stalls. The Town Crier was
helping people across
the street. It was very hard to get down the street because everyone was
in the way. People were
buying things we didn't buy anything and then we went home. `
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