@Margaret63 -
I have an urgent request to you - @NoBoDe needs our help - . I plan to write a letter to the journalist who wrote that article about NBD's mum who instituted the first soup kitchen in Canberra, and some citizens collected money for a statue of her to be built and set up in Garema Place, Canberra. I am hoping you still have that reference, or remember the newspaper and the name of the journalist. If you still have that reference (or any reference), and the article, could you pls. send it to me? Pls. correspond with me via my book-order email (
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The reason for this that NBD, after he's been treated in Canberra for his lung issues, including pneumonia, as well as a touch of diabetes, he is now back in an outback NSW hospital and his doctor will send him home without oxygen, until he can prove, that he abstained from smoking for 6 months. He will be dead within weeks if he gets sent home without oxygen, but the doctor refuses to budge.
I am going to try and alert the journalist of his desire to see that figure of his diminutive Mum, also known as 'The Angel of Canberra' - but more commonly the 'Soup Lady of Garema Place, Canberra' put in place, but won't live to see it, unless he gets an oxygen supply.
There is some difficulty in that his prescribing - and regular - doctor is resident in Canberra and not in N.S.W. and the various 'authorities' do not talk to each other . . .
Sadly access to oxygen won't extend his life beyond a few years, but he will be alive to see his Mum honoured, as well as maybe himself too, as he worked with her right from the beginning, peeling tons of vegetables every Thursday night - and he had a marriage and a job at that time.
His nephew continued after that and was instrumental in getting the process rolling.
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https://the-riotact.com/tender-opens-for-artists-keen-to-immortalise-canberras-soup-kitchen-lady/839055f
