“This octogenarian was trundling along the bike path on his old workhorse bicycle when two teenagers approached, riding their bikes,” writes Geoff Turnbull of Ashfield. “I stopped and they stopped. ‘Geoff,’ I said. ‘Jasper’, ‘Liam,’ they replied. ‘You should be wearing helmets, boys.’ ‘Yeah, we probably should.’ ‘Do both your brakes work, mate?’ asked Jasper. ‘Only the rear one,’ I said. Jasper proceeded to make an adjustment to my front brake and voila! Both brakes work. ‘You’re a champion,’ I said, as they rode off. With teenagers like this, the future of our nation is in good hands.”

“In my first job at McDonald’s Waitara in the early nineties we were sometimes treated to the ‘golden tonsils’ of one John Laws (C8) when working on drive-thru,” recalls Melinda Barwell of Forestville. “He

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